MSc Science Communication and Public Engagement

Our Community Engagement Manager Dr Cathy Southworth leads the experiential course on STEM Education that forms part of the University of Edinburgh’s science communication programme.

Each year our local primary school hosts 20+ MSc students studying science communication. The students observe the young people in the school setting (to get to know their audience) before designing and piloting an engaging hour-long science workshop. The students then take the workshops forward, creating a resource so that others can run the workshop, which forms part of their assessment.

Over 8 years running the course we’ve seen lots of fun STEM! From a real life Archimedes, beard and all, to making Harry Potter wands that light, pollination role-play, volcanoes… the list goes on.

The University of Edinburgh science communication programme