Inspiring Lives: Creating Futures

Completed

Not Energy Related
Other Cross-Cutting Technologies or Research(Environmental, social and economic impacts)

Basic and strategic applied research

PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

Other (Energy technology information dissemination)
Other (Studies not related to a specific technology area)

Professor T J Millar
Mathematics & Physics
Queen's University Belfast

Standard

EPSRC

01 January 2013

31 December 2016

48 months

£193,675

Unknown

Northern Ireland

Non Theme Specific

Professor T J Millar, Mathematics & Physics, Queen's University Belfast

Dr RF Donnelly, School of Pharmacy, Queen's University Belfast
Dr TA Field, Mathematics & Physics, Queen's University Belfast
Mr D Grant, Sch of Languages Lit and Performing Arts, Queen's University Belfast
Dr KD McCloskey, Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast
Dr F Schroeder, School of Music and Sonic Arts, Queen's University Belfast
Dr V Stewart, Electronics, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Queen's University Belfast
Professor M Topping, Sch of Languages Lit and Performing Arts, Queen's University Belfast

Project Contact, Magherafelt Learning Partnership

Queen's University Belfast, in partnership with four Area Learning Communities, and working with 34 participating schools will deliver a programme of public engagement' projects within the context of four major cross-cutting themes. The cross-cutting themes will be:1. Creative TechnologiesThe creative technologies sector is characterised by rapidly changing technologies and the focus for schools and universities must be to develop young people with the ability and motivation to continually acquire knowledge and develop new skills in response to this rapidly changing environment. This theme will bring together University expertise in Digital Technologies to develop and deliver 'public engagement' projects utilising technology, sounds, words and visuals.2. Crossing Borders in the 21st CenturyIn a world of increasingly porous national boundaries, the movement between and across borders by people and cultural products demands a rethinking of identities and of static notions of nationhood. This theme will utilise the research strengths of established centres of excellence in arts and humanities to help pupils explore issues such as the ideological dynamics of the movement between cultures, globalisation and multiculturalism through textual, visual, musical and virtual forms of communication.3. Hands on Your FutureYoung people today are growing up in a world which faces major problems largely driven by population growth and climate change which give rise to global concerns in areas such as energy, water, food, environment, health, sustainability and, most recently, in economics. This theme will introduce pupils to some of the technologies that are being developed at Queen's to address these problems.4. From Discovery to RecoveryAdvances in medical care and in the pharmaceutical sciences mean that people are now living longer, while an increasing number of premature babies now survive. The challenge then is to ensure people lead healthy lives. This theme will combine the expertise of clinicians and pharmacists to take pupils on an interactive journey from patient symptoms to clinical diagnosis, disease biomarker discovery, drug development and back to the patient for treatment.The University will establish four 'public engagement' teams, one under each cross-cutting theme, to develop and deliver, in collaboration with teachers within schools, the programme of 'public engagement' projects. Each 'public engagement' team will comprise two Team Leaders (experienced in research and public engagement) and a cohort of at least four early career researchers (including doctoral students) at any one time. There will be two periods of 'public engagement' project delivery during each year of the project, namely March to May and September to December. Female early careers researchers will be particularly encouraged to participate. The 'public engagement' projects will seek to utilise the knowledge and skills of early career researchers to involve and engage pupils in addressing real world problems, in contributing to real world projects or participating in existing research programmes, or in adding value to curricular and extra-curricular activity. Every opportunity will be taken to develop and deliver exciting and engaging learning experiences for pupils, utilising the latest research and the latest digital technologies. Whilst all age groups will benefit from this project, a particular focus will be on year 9 and year 10 pupils, seeking to influence the pupils to reflect on academic and career choices prior to selecting their GCSE subjects. There is the added advantage of pupils not studying for major examinations during these years, and therefore teachers having greater opportunity and time to introduce new teaching and learning elements to the classroom

11/02/13