Our masterclasses are returning for the new academic year! From developing core engagement skills to exploring participatory research, discover the right tools to engage your audiences effectively. 

Open to all Imperial staff and doctoral students, we recommend completing our core engagement masterclass before joining the other workshops (unless you have previous engagement experience at Imperial or elsewhere). Please contact us with any questions. 

Core Engagement Masterclass:

• Exploring, Planning and Evaluating Engagement 
  14 November, 24 January or 15 May at South Kensington Campus

• Communication in Engagement 
  5 December, 24 January or 15 May at South Kensington campus

• Engagement, Funding and Impact  
  30 January or 5 June at South Kensington campus

• Digital Engagement 
  31 January via Zoom

• Participatory Research 
  February 2024, date to be announced soon

At this year's Great Exhibition Road Festival, researchers from the Margaret Turner Warwick Centre, and volunteers from the charity Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis, developed an activity that gave visitors the chance to walk in the shoes of someone living with pulmonary fibrosis. 

Members of the public were challenged to fill up a pair of animated lungs by pedaling on three stationary bikes. While the bikes initially appeared identical, each increased in difficulty from first to last, mimicking how it would feel to have normal, mild or severe fibrotic lungs. 

Find out more and hear from pulomary fibrosis patient, Andy, about what it’s like to live with the condition.

Recruitment for the next Young Producers cohort is currently open (with a deadline of 16 October). 

The Young Producers are a group of 18-24 year-olds from the local areas of Hammersmith and Fulham or the City of Westminster. They work with Imperial researchers and external artists to create an installation combining art and science for Imperial Lates and the Great Exhibition Road Festival. This year's cohort created 'Fighting Bac', an interactive installation exploring the dangers of antimicrobial resistance! 

If you know anyone who might be interested, you can download our flyer or share our posts on Twitter/X or Instagram. 

The Undergraduate Primary Care Education Unit (via the Department of Primary Care and Public Health) was invited to a local school to support their ‘science week’ and inspire pupils to consider healthcare careers. They designed an interactive, half-day workshop for children aged 10-11 on the subject of ‘Healthy Hearts’. Students explored 3D heart models, saw demonstrations on blood flow and circulatory systems, and role-played scenarios involving patients visiting the GP with heart attack symptoms.

Read more about the value they found in sharing their passion for medicine with the young students and providing positive perspectives on being a doctor in today’s NHS.

Staff should fill this form to apply, and share this link to any student they think might be interested! If you have any questions, you can email dsi_comms@imperial.ac.uk.

The Evening Standard has published an article on the WellHome project, London's first community-based indoor air pollution study developed by researchers at Imperial.

Imperial have already visited and installed sensors in more than 56 homes as part of the project and expect to sample more than 100 homes by April 2024, with results from the study published by the end of next year. 

Read the news article to find out more about the study and its potential impacts, particularly on those between the ages of 5 and 10.