Science Schedule

Programme

0900-1030	Registration
1030-1050	Welcome - Bernice McCabe
1050-1150	Pupil Panel Discussion - Inspiration, rigour and enrichment
1150-1210	Break
1210-1310	KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Lord Rees: Life and the Earth from a Cosmic Perspective
1310-1400	Lunch
1400-1530	Workshop 1: Why do we teach Science?
1530-1600	Break
1600-1700	Lecture: Francis Wells: Leonardo da Vinci: The case for lifelong self-education
1700-1830	Workshop 2: Sharing good practice
1830-1930	Break
1930	Dinner
	After Dinner Talk: Dr Emily Shuckburgh

0900-0930	Schools Programme Presentation
0930-1030	Choice of Lectures: Dr Hugh Hunt: Dambusters: Building the bouncing bomb Dr David Bainbridge: Being young and getting old: why ageing is confusing
1030-1100	Break
1100-1200	Lecture: Professor Robin Millar: Issues in Science education
1200-1300	Workshop 3: What are the issues in Science education?
1300-1400	Lunch
1400-1500	Choice of Lectures: Dr Rebecca Fitzgerald: Advances in early cancer diagnosis Dr Bill O’Neill
1500-1530	Plenary workshop: Feedback on issues in Science education
1530-1600	Break
1600-1730	Workshop 4: Sharing development objectives
1730-1830	Choice of Lectures: Professor Rupert Sheldrake: The Extended Mind – recent experimental evidence Dr Sally Boss:From the ural mountains to the clinic; the platinum group metals as anticancer agents
1830-1930	Break
1930	Dinner
	After Dinner Talk: Hugh Aldersey-Williams

0900-1100	Workshop 5: Deborah Parren: Getting Practical
1100-1130	Break
1130-1230	Choice of Lectures: Prof Lisa Jardine Wright: Inspiring, stretching and exciting future physicists through astronomy, mathematics and outreach Dr Michael Berenbrink: Of bladders and buoyancy - evolution of the fish swim bladder
1230-1330	Lunch
1330-1530	Reports on key themes Plenary discussion with Panel of Educationalists
1530-1600	Evaluation
1600	Attendance Certificates and Depart