Our summer public engagement activities are now getting into a lovely rhythm! Previous to the CCI project, the majority of our public engagement activities were based around science themed events, like the Cork Carnival of Science, Science Week and Dublin Maker. These events are fantastic and we always engage with huge numbers of people ofContinue reading “The Sound of Chemistry”
Category Archives: Public Engagament
Chemistry at the Carnival
Now that we’ve finished our school workshops for another academic year, we return to our public engagement programme for the summer. First on our list this summer was the Cork Carnival of Science in Fitzgerarlds park in Cork City on the 7th and 8th of June. This is one of our biggest annual events andContinue reading “Chemistry at the Carnival”
Engineers Day and ESB Science Blast
Our first public engagement events for 2025 took place at the start of March, with teams of researchers from Cork, Sligo and Dublin all chipping in. The Cork based CCI team from UCC Chemistry and Tyndall demonstrated how to make a battery for the Lifetime Lab Engineers Open day on Sunday the 2nd of March.Continue reading “Engineers Day and ESB Science Blast”
Science Week Fun
This year we had a very busy science week schedule. In addition to our usual secondary school workshops running all over the country, we also ran activities at various public events. Our great Sligo team kicked off the fun at the Sligo Science Festival on the Sunday, quickly followed by the Dublin team at theContinue reading “Science Week Fun”
Researchers Night
For the first time our researchers at Trinity College Dublin took the lead to run a very busy stand at the European Researchers Night festival on campus in September. The European Researchers’ Night is the largest science outreach event in Europe. In 2024 and 2025, 58 projects ran across 25 countries. Universities and research institutes across EuropeContinue reading “Researchers Night”
Do You Want to Make a Battery?
For the third year in a row, the CCI team setup shop at the Dublin Maker festival for some public engagement. We returned to Richmond Barracks again where we met over 1,000 people over the two days. Well done to everyone from Trinity College Dublin and the Atlantic Technological University Sligo for their professionalism andContinue reading “Do You Want to Make a Battery?”
Community Spirit
After two years of enormous success at science events like the Cork Carnival of Science, Dublin Maker and Science Week, this summer we also delivered our popular public engagement activities at some community events in the North West of Ireland for the first time. At the end of June we hosted our micro workshops atContinue reading “Community Spirit”
Cork Carnival of Science 2024
For the third year in a row, we returned to the ever popular Cork Carnival of Science, held in Fitzgerald’s Park in Cork city. As always, there was a huge attendance over the two days, passing over 10,000 people. Thanks to Mervyn for having us there, it is great to have Lifetime Lab on ourContinue reading “Cork Carnival of Science 2024”
Public Engagement is Back
Our pubic engagement activities are back for 2024 with two events in March. First up we had the Lifetime Lab Engineers Open Day on Sunday, 3rd March. This was led by Bláithín from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) who trained and coordinated a team of three researchers from UCC and Tyndall. Then we went straight intoContinue reading “Public Engagement is Back”
Dublin Maker 2023
After a very positive experience at Dublin Maker 2022, we returned this year with our battery maker micro workshop. We brought with us a significant amount of experience from numerous other events that we attended since June 2022, which really benefited us in terms of crowd control and engagement levels this year. The festival changedContinue reading “Dublin Maker 2023”
Current Chemistry Investigators (CCI) 