Outreach
Outreach is really important. Every taxpayer funds our research and, besides,
it's too interesting to keep to ourselves.
I give talks, host short films, write, collaborate with the arts, and have contributed to radio and television.
You can find many recordings via google and youtube.
Here are lists of previous
activities and some of what's coming up next.
More information
- Talks
My talks cover LHC, particle physics, antimatter, CERN, the scientific method and pretty much anything these connect to, at:
- Science festivals and fairs, science/philosophy festivals, literary festivals;
- Learned societies (eg. RIA, RI, RS, IOP) and regional physics societies;
- Technology festivals, TEDx and TED style events;
- Schools;
- School teachers;
- Undergraduate students;
- Galleries and arts venues.
- Film/online
Besides recorded talks, I interview for news, contribute to documentaries, and host and guest in online hangouts and podcasts. Here are some:
- Labreporter:
Links to 5 films, made with Alom Shaha:
- Host of CERN short films about LHC and LHCb;
- Host and contributions to CERN google hangouts;
- News interviews for News 24, BBC news, BBC breakfast, ITV news, Channel 4 news, World Service, Radio 4, BBC local radio, Drivetime, BBC New Zealand, RTE, and radio in the USA, Mexico and Finland, and many others.
- Contributions to documentaries on Radio 3, Radio 4.
- Interviews for science programmes on Radio 4 and Irish radio.
- Contributions to documentaries on the Discovery Channel, IFLS, BBC, Arte.
- Interview for literature/arts on Radio 4.
- Debate and programme on Falsification as part of Radio 4's A history of Ideas .
- Written.
I write occasional pieces for:
- The Liverpool View, Physics Focus, Beyond the Microscope podcasts, and to accompany videos for the Institute of Arts and Ideas;
- Essays to accompany short stories for Comma Press;
- CERN news updates;
- CERN courier;
- I also like reviewing books.
- Arts/Science.
I contribute, or have contributed to the following:
- Documentaries exploring arts/science overlap (listed above);
- Collaborations with novelists; several under SciTalk, recently Sara Maitland and Adam Marek with Comma Press;
- Collaborations with artists; with Christoph Keller, Michael Krause under Arts@CERN, and new collaborations forthcoming with FACT's Collide@CERN programme.
- Coming up:
- Helping with BBC iWonder guide on LHC and what it will discover Feb 2016.
- New Scientist Instant Expert event, on the Standard Model, Feb. 13 2016.
- IOP Manchester, Latest news from the LHC, Feb. 16 2016.
- Welsh teachers at CERN, Intro to particle physics, Feb 23 2016.
- CERN Arts@CERN things, Intro to CERN, Ideasquare (GOSH!2016) March 1-3 2016, Geneva.
- UCD Masterclass in Particle Physics, March 14 2016.
- IOP Merseyside, Latest news from the LHC, Apr. 21 2016.
- Symmetry, and particle physics explored on a Scientific American cruise, May 2016.
- Latest LHC news, at the Binary Festival, May 25 2016.
- Hosting and speaking in debates on A Goldilocks World, Missing Evidence, Playing Dice with the Universe, Towards a Theory of Everything, Beyond Experience, Travelling through Time, at the wonderful How the Light Gets In festival, June 3-5 2016.
- CERN Summer student introductory lectures, June/July 2016.
- Antimatter matters at the Royal Society Summer exhibition, July 2016.
- TEDxArendal, September 2016.
- Beyond the Higgs Boson, New Scientist Live!, September 2016.
- Curator's tour to launch FACT's No Such Thing as Gravity exhibit, November 11 2016.
- Science Museum patrons, 15th March 2017.
Or you can check what's going on on twitter.