Public Engagement Activities

HEFCE Medical School, 2010 Professor Sara Rankin is the NHLI Institute lead for Outreach and a member of the Education and Training Committee of the British Society of Pharmacology – with a special interest in outreach activities.

She and the Regenerative Pharmacology group's public engagement activities include workshops, lectures, summer schools as well as acting as a scientific advisor and appearing in the local and national press:

Stem cell workshops
Lectures
Involvement in public engagement events
Art projects
Scientific advisor
Articles / profiles
In the news

Stem cell workshops

Creative Futures, 2009

The Respiratory Pharmacology research group regularly runs stem cell workshops for pupils. This is an opportunity for all members of the group to get involved in science communication it is always good fun and very rewarding.

For pupils:

INSPIRE, Imperial College London, 2006 – 2008
Creative Futures, Imperial College London, 2008, 2009, 2010
HEFCE Medical Summer school, Imperial College London, 2009, 2010

For the Medicines for Children Research Network – young persons’ advisory group

Lectures

‘Stem cells the future of medicine’ - The Association for Science Education annual meeting, Nottingham Jan 2010 – Biology in the Real World - Lecture on behalf of the Pharmacological Society
‘Outreach activities and interactions with the media’ - for MRes students from the Centre for Integrative Mammalian Physiology & Pharmacology at both Imperial and King's College London – King's College, March 2009.

Involvement in public engagement events

Member of panel for public debates:

SciTech 09 – The race to the top - public service event, Barbican, London, 30 April 2009
BioTech09 –The future knowledge economy - public service event, Westminster, London, 22 October 2009

Art projects

Wellcome Trust People's Award

Awarded to Gina Czarnecki to work with Professor Sara Rankin, June 2009; for the Sci-Art project WASTED – to be exhibited in the Blue Coat Gallery in Liverpool 2011.

First in this series was presented as part of DADA fest (the annual festival for deaf and disabled artists) on the BBC big screens across the UK as part of the cultural Olympiad December 2009 - March 2010 and at the Para Winter Olympics in Vancouver 2010

www.ginaczarnecki.com/projects/2009/11/25/pixie-dust-1.html