Recent highlights

Projects include charity concerts in Newmarket and our stem cell brew, Regenerator.

Why?

• Everybody should be able to use and influence scientific research, regardless of their background or interests.
• Stem cell related diseases and future therapies do not discriminate.
• Certain communities are often overlooked or excluded when delivering our engagement through the traditional channels e.g. science festivals.
• We limit the impact our engagement can make by not engaging in surrounding towns, cities and rural areas.

How?

• We will create and market a funding scheme to local organisations to work with us on an engagement project that meets their communities’ needs and interests.
• We will experiment with novel activities, unusual locations and targeted invitations to reach new people in the Cambridgeshire region.
• We will monitor our success in reaching new local audiences from under-served communities using demographic data and measures of ‘science capital’.

Outcomes

• New communities gain access to our research including our laboratories.
• Researchers evolve new mechanisms and skills to engage diverse audiences.
• Communities feel valued and more informed.