Research promotion

Apocalyptic downpours could not deter nearly 2,000 visitors who came to Festival of Nature events in Bath last weekend to interact with researchers from our Milner Centre for Evolution and Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies (CSCT). The Festival – the...

It’s often hard to know in advance of its release just how far and wide a news story about our research will travel. In December, when my colleague Rob sat down with Chris Chuck (Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies and...

From the finals of the Three Minute Thesis back in March through to the latest exhibition currently on display in The Edge ‘Images of Research’, there’s a clear thread running through the kinds of engagement and dissemination activities our researchers are...

Seven of our PhD candidates have battled through the on campus heats, but only one can be crowned champion of this year's Three Minute Thesis. Who will it be? It's now just one day to go until the 3MT live final, taking...

This year, we rocketed into 2016 with our second Research Rocket event. Taking place in the East Building lecture theatre (on campus), the audience were treated to an evening with our researchers from the Faculties of Science, Engineering & Design,...

It’s the International Year of Light, and what better way to commemorate it than by recreating the experiment which led William Herschel to infrared radiation. Our very own Jim Stone, from the Department of Physics was asked to reconstruct Herschel’s...

Our Department of Physics have been busy creating spectroscopes on the streets of Bath as part of the International Year of Light. The team set up a marquee in the popular shopping area of South Gate over the weekend and...

Maree and I got to pose with the Rugby World Cup when it visited the University of Bath this week at the start of its tour of the west country. Behind the fun, however, we are actually busy working with...

I just wanted to add a quick post about an event we ran this week - the Three Minute Thesis, or 3MT. You might have already heard of the event. Its been going for some years, born out of the...

The Research Rocket has landed in the Lime Tree and has been orbiting over the past month, bringing our amazing research right to the heart of the student body. Kicked off with a session by the CREATE Lab, students and staff were treated...