Science Oxford’s day out at ATOM Festival

ATOM Festival of Science and Technology took place in Abingdon this March, as part of the Oxfordshire Science Festival, supported by Science Oxford. The festival was a great success and…

Egg-citing times with Science Oxford

Science Oxford will be running a series of fabulously fun family shows and workshops across Oxfordshire this Easter. We’ll be heading to Witney with a culinary inspired ‘Kitchen Science’ workshop…

Go wild for our new woodland

We have received planning permission from Oxford City Council for the development of our new Science Oxford Education Centre at Stansfeld Park. This will be the UK’s first integrated indoor…

New series of meet-ups for Science Oxford STEM mentors

There’s no better way to get to know someone than over a beer and a slice of pizza – which is why we ordered both for the first meet-up of…

Getting tech savvy at family Science Clubs is not just for the kids! Blog by Jude Eades

I don’t want this blog to read like an advertorial for Science Oxford but just so you know, the following paragraphs are basically me eulogising about our family programme.  I’m…

Living Well Oxford secures Wellcome People Award

Living Well Oxford has recently secured a Wellcome People Award, to develop and run a “pop-up shop” entitled “Ageing: From Birth and Beyond” in Templars Square Shopping Centre in May…

DNA After Dark – tickets available on the door

Make your own strawberry DNA daiquiri and try our Lego inheritance challenge at this genuisly genetic adults-only workshop.

Extreme Science at Cheltenham Science Festival

From ‘Extreme medicine’ to G-Astronomy, Science Oxford’s Rowena Fletcher-Wood practises her poker-face and shares a taste of this summer’s Cheltenham Science Festival. “We have three support systems: our body, our planet and our civilisation”. At…

CREST Award – Gold

Gold Awards allow the most able students to conduct real research. They are longer-term projects that require around 70 hours’ work, and are typically completed by 16-to-19-year-olds.

CREST Awards – Bronze & Discovery

From Monday 24th April 2017 all new Discovery and Bronze registrations should be made through the my.crestawards platform.

How to Live Well – a new health and wellbeing research project in Oxford

Living Well Oxford is a collaborative public engagement project between Science Oxford, the Oxford AHSN and the Oxford Health Experiences Institute to support the exploration and understanding of health and…

Paper Engineering

2 week kit loan for KS2

Challenge your students to build something amazing with our paper engineering kit, which includes rolling sticks, super strong hole punches, tape and plenty of nuts and bolts. All you need to provide is A4 scrap paper and some inspiration…

Science Oxford’s new Creative Computing Club

There is nothing more rewarding for the Science Oxford outreach team than to watch the excitement and wonder in the eyes of the children we engage with about science. And as technological…

In Good Taste

We spend around five percent of our waking hours thinking about our next meal – cereal or toast, sandwich or sushi – but rarely think of the science behind what…

Budding Tastes

When we put a strawberry into our mouths we experience an explosion of sweetness. We are able to do this because of the taste receptors on our tongue – they…

CBeebies Big Day Out

  The phone rang. “Hello, my name is Anthony, I’m from BBC Learning. Are you familiar with CBeebies?” I squeaked that I was. In fact, having three children under 10,…

Science Of Cycling

A little learning in Oxford Still learning. That’s my lesson from the Cycling Science tour in Oxford on the longest day of the year. Even though I’d led it a few…

FameLab success!

Three weeks of judging and forty applicants later it was finally time for Oxford’s eight chosen FameLab finalists to take to the stage. Anticipation and excitement was high amongst the crowds of…