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Public Engagement Fellowships 2012
STFC announces the closing date for its 2012 Public Engagement Fellowship scheme. The Fellowships Scheme supports individual's public engagement with STC science and technology.
Closing date for applications is 4.00pm on 1 March 2012.

STFC Public Engagemnt Fellows 2011
Professor Mark Hodson, Dr Andrew Newsam and Dr Helen Mason have been awarded Public Engagement Fellowships to champion STFC Science and Technology to a wider audience.

Naked Scientists Podcasts
The Naked Scientists are a media-savvy group of physicians and researchers from Cambridge University who use radio, live lectures, and the Internet to strip science down to its bare essentials, and promote it to the general public. Podcasts from the Naked Scientists are supported by the STFC.

How did the universe begin and how will it end?
Where did the Sun and Earth and other planets in the solar system come from?
What is matter made of?
Is there life on Mars, or on planets around other stars in the galaxy?

These are some of the big questions that scientists are trying to answer with the help of the Science and Technology Facilities Council ("the Council") funding and facilities.

Follow the links on the left for more information about the science that the Council funds, including:

Free publications (link opens in a new window) and advice and resources for schools and colleges, on astronomy, space and particle physics
The Council science (link opens in a new window): This section offers an overview of the areas of scientific interest to the Council and current major projects. It was written for this web site by acclaimed science writer and former New Scientist Physical Sciences Editor, Nina Hall
Funding for projects to increase the public understanding of astronomy and particle physics.
Science and Society Fellowships
Media and communication skills training to help scientists explain their work to the public through the media
Moon rock and meteorite loan scheme, in which schools, museums and others can borrow rare moon rocks and meteorite samples for educational purposes

Reports, presentations and downloads

The Barstow Report - 'Bringing Space into School Science', commissioned by the British National Space Centre (BNSC) Partnership
'The Education and Skills Case for Space' - consultants' report
Science in Society Town Meeting - November 2007
LHC Communications Strategy - An outline of proposed UK promotion of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project
LHC Educational Resources - An outline of the production of Educational Resources of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project
The Council's Science in Society programme aims to engage public and school audiences with our science and technology. The STFC Science in Society Advisory Panel advises on the programme.