Schools Outreach

Crystals Poster Competition

Date: 
26 Feb 2018 - 12:00pm to 23 Apr 2018 - 4:00pm
Venue: 
Submission By PDF
Audience: 
General Public - School Year 4 to 7

The Oxford Department of Physics with Diamond Light Source and ISIS Neutron and Muon Source are inviting you to design a poster about crystals!

This competition is open to students in years 4-7 and will be judged in two categories:
• Years 4 & 5
• Years 6 & 7.
The deadline for submitting posters is 23rd April 2018.

While the competition is running, we're going to put up loads of cool videos, pictures and info all about crystals - so keep checking back!

Further details can be found on the link below:

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The 13th Hintze Lecture: Our Simple but Strange Universe, Professor David Spergel

Date: 
10 Nov 2016 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Venue: 
martinwood
Room: 
Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
Audience: 
General public (Age 14+)

The 13th Hintze Lecture will be delivered by Professor David Spergel, Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy, Princeton Unversity, on Thursday 10th November 2016 @ 17:30 in the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre.

Title: Our Simple but Strange Universe

For more information contact: 

Leanne O'Donnell
01865 613 973
Leanne.odonnell@physics.ox.ac.uk

-273.1°C : The Physics of Cold (Kylie MacFarquharson)

Date: 
20 Apr 2021 - 4:00pm
Venue: 
Zoom webinar
Audience: 
Schools (secondary)

Kylie MacFarquharson - "-273.1°C : The Physics of Cold"

Registration required - please use this form to register for this event.

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Preparing for the PAT 2021

Date: 
1 Jun 2021 - 12:00pm to 3 Oct 2021 - 12:00pm
Venue: 
Online
Audience: 
Y12 prospective applications
curly white writing on a blackboard that reads 'Preparing for the PAT 2021'

Banner with white text on a black background that reads 'Developing problem-solving skills and mathematical thinking ... Preparing for the PAT ... for the Oxford Physics Aptitude Test'

For more information contact: 

Dr Kathryn Boast, Physics Access Officer
PAT.prep@physics.ox.ac.uk

31 March 2021

Oxford Physics celebrated at the SEPnet Public Engagement Awards

Dr Peter Hatfield, Muhammad Hamza Waseem and the Department of Physics outreach team have all been recognised at the recent SEPnet Public Engagement Awards for their outstanding work in engaging the public with physics. The awards recognise excellence in public engagement and the judges of the awards commented that the quality of nominations was exceedingly high this year and they had some extremely tough calls to make.

How to find a good semiconductor (using lasers)

Date: 
30 Mar 2021 - 4:00pm
Venue: 
Online - Zoom Webinar
Audience: 
School students - Year 10-Year 13

Registration required - please use this form to register for this event.

For more information contact: 

Helena Cotterill - Outreach Officer

8 March 2021

Tutoring and mentoring for local Y12 students

Male and female students in a lecture theatre

Oxford’s Department of Physics is partnering with the Institute of Physics to offer a brand new programme of tutoring and mentoring to local school students who want to study physics at university. The 14-month programme, Levelling Up: Physics, will provide 40 sixth-formers with a programme of dedicated physics tuition from a specialist A-level tutor. The students will also be part of a mentoring programme run by the Department of Physics; students will be paired with undergraduate physicists who can provide insight into what it’s like to study physics at university.

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Ask a Space Scientist

Date: 
15 Mar 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Venue: 
Online (Zoom webinar)
Audience: 
Public and students 11+

Registration required - please register for this event by filling out this form.

Ask all your burning space related questions to our panel of scientists!

For more information contact: 

Helena Cotterill, Outreach Officer

4 March 2021

Meet...Sian Tedaldi

Sian Tedaldi

Name: Sian Tedaldi
Job title: Outreach Programmes Manager

What are you currently working on?
March is a busy time for planning events and next week we have Physics: lab to life. We are also starting a new project with the IOP called Levelling Up which aims to help prepare under-represented sixth-form students for studying physics at university.

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