Outputs (7)

Making and knowledge exchange for repair and sustainability (2024)
Report

The MAKERS project at UWE Bristol enhances belonging among diverse engineering students through sustainability and repair activities, whilst tackling the Climate and Ecological Emergency in partnership with local communities.
Launched in 2023, a mo... Read More about Making and knowledge exchange for repair and sustainability.

Can a student-led Repair Café develop a sense of belonging and provide hands-on experiences for engineering students? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Repair Cafés offer an effective challenge to the “throwaway society” providing a space where communities can work together to repair. Meanwhile, it has been shown that for engineering students from under-represented backgrounds, hands-on environments... Read More about Can a student-led Repair Café develop a sense of belonging and provide hands-on experiences for engineering students?.

From a candle to content creation (2024)
Journal Article

This article gives a short tour through the changing faces of science communication, including dissemination, public understanding of science and public engagement with science and technology to engaged research.

MAKERS - Making and knowledge exchange for repair & sustainability (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Research indicates that STEM activities which draw on wider societal or environmental purpose (communal goals) are more attractive to women. Maker projects have also been shown to improve identity and agency in STEM for black men and encourage engage... Read More about MAKERS - Making and knowledge exchange for repair & sustainability.

Knowledge Encyclopedia Ocean (2020)
Book

The next in DK's Knowledge Encyclopedia series, Ocean! provides a beautifully illustrated guide to the ocean aimed at children.

Liar, liar! Pants on fire! Nick Clegg and the cost of losing positive leadership valence (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Sorting the Beef from the Bull: The Science of Food Fraud Forensics (2016)
Book

Horsemeat in burgers was hard to swallow, but there are far more sinister culinary crimes afoot...

Chicken eggs that haven't come from chickens, melamine in infant's milk in China, nut shells in spices – these are just some examples of the food fr... Read More about Sorting the Beef from the Bull: The Science of Food Fraud Forensics.