The Man with No Time

(This blog entry was originally posted over at the 'Explore your Universe' website: link . I'm cross-posting it here for a different audience, and my own records) It’s been a while since I posted up my introduction, but I’ve been pretty busy over the last few months. Yesterday though I took the chance to break out of my normal routine, and help enthuse a new generation about science. Dundee Science Centre were holding a ‘Meet the Expert’ event for local schools, and I jumped in to help out as one of the scientists. It was a really fun, and very busy day. There were three scientists taking part; I took along a display of telescopes and showed the visitors how they worked, and how I use similar telescopes for finding planets. The others had a display of electronic circuits being designed for use on space satellites, and a set of experiments demonstrating electromagnetism, including the ever popular van de Graaff generator. We had four or five different school...

I recently signed up to be a part of the "Explore Your Universe" science outreach project. Outreach is something that I've been doing a reasonable amount of during my PhD, mostly in the form of the planetarium shows that I've been organising. But I've been considering outreach and science communication as a possible career alternative, and therefore looking for ways to broaden the outreach that I'm getting involved in. The 'Explore Your Universe' logo. I'm really looking forward to getting involved in this exciting project. (Credit: exploreyouruniverse.org) "Explore Your Universe"  is an interesting looking project from the UK Association of Science and Discovery Centres  that is basically a way to encourage research scientists to engage with the public in a friendly setting. The idea is that scientists, like me, sign up to the scheme and are assigned to a specific centre. There will be 'meet an expert' days at which...