Public engagement

Sharing our research with the public - including school children and budding scientists - is an important part of what we do.

We launched our fully accessible, large-scale interactive exhibit at The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition in July 2022.

It attracted more than 5,700 visitors from the across the UK and beyond - including more than 700 students and their teachers.

We were also selected to be part of the British Science Festival - hosted by De Montfort University - in September 2022.

Close-up shot of students working with a ball and stick model

Our engagement partners

We are very grateful to local schools De Lisle and Limehurst as well as our research partners with whom we road tested our ideas before developing our interactive exhibit.

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The Royal Society of Chemistry

The Royal Society of Chemistry has generously supported the creation of our exhibit as well as the training of team SlowCat’s young researchers as science ambassadors.