We regularly take part in outreach and engagement activities and enjoy communicating our research to wider audiences.
Kirsten wins the “Soapbox Science” competition at the Alzheimer’s Society conference (2023).
Pint of Science is back – live and in 3D. Kirsten and Lucy organised and presented their work at the Beautiful Minds series: “Forget Me Not.. the science of Dementia” and “Fantastic Beasts…Models in Neuroscience” (2022)
Dianne shares her experience as a Neuroscientist as guest speaker for the Association for Black and minority Ethnic Engineers Next Generation programme (2021)
Collaboration with Barbara Touati-Evans on her “Detangling the Knots” dementia project (2019)
Aleks Pitera awarded Runner-up in the Doctoral College Director’s Awards for Public Engagement and Outreach (2019)
Pint of Science – Nerve cells, networks and Alzheimer’s disease (2019)
Alzheimer’s Research UK South Coast Network public engagement event, Brighton (2019)
Soton BioSci outreach festival (2018)
The Alzheimer’s Society and their Trustees visit our lab and inspect living neurons under the microscope (2018)
The Alzheimer’s Society and Caroline Dinenage from the DHSC visit our lab (2018)
Aleks co-organises this year’s Pint of Science – Beautiful Mind (2018)
Aleks’ and Grace’s microscopy features in Alzheimer Research UK’s interactive “Reframe Dementia” exhibition at gallery@oxo, London (2018)
ARUK South Coast Network Outreach Day (2018)
Grace presents her work at the Rotary Club Southampton (2017)
Aleks is our new BNA Local Group Student Representative (2017)
Passionate about her project and about inspiring others to learn more about dementia: Grace discusses her research at Pint of Science 2017
Grace discusses dementia research and her personal motivation in a blog for ARUK (2017)
Living with Dementia – ARUK South Coast Network Outreach Day (2017)
Joanne Bailey- Elected Early Career Representative for the BNA (2015-17)
Joanne Bailey- Early Careers Representative for Biological Sciences (2015-2016)
Changing Minds Projects with Peter Symonds College and Winchester School of Art
Grace Hallinan and Prutha Patel awarded Runner ups for the Doctoral College Director’s Awards in Outreach and Engagement (2016)
Prutha Patel- Postgraduate Representative for Biological Sciences (2015-16)
Prutha Patel- Careers Officer for the Biological Science Postgraduate Society (2015-16)
Science and Engineering Days
Sixth Form Outreach Days
New Forest Show Dementia Stand, with Wessex Medical Trust (2015)
Prutha Patel organises the Dementia Stand at the Community Health Fair, Neasden Temple (2015)
Pint of Science- The Beautiful Brain (2015)
Grace Hallinan explains her project for ARUK (2014)
Wellcome Image Awards Exhibition, Basingstoke Museum (2014)
Cafe Scientifique, Shanklin, Isle of Wight (2014)
