The 16th Schools Science Conference comprised the following exciting sessions:
- Welcome & Introduction
- Science for Experimentation – Young scientists present their own work
- Science for Interaction
- Science in Practice – 1 and 2
- Blood and Bugs Workshop – Interactive Session
- Science for Educators – CPD Teachers’ Workshop
- Science for Inspiration
- Keynote speech
- Round-up & Prize Giving
Science in Practice – 1, 2 & 3
Interactive Exhibits – Sponsored by Society for Applied Microbiology
Meet the Scientists and Healthcare Professionals
Hands-on interactive sessions where you meet scientists, try out some scientific equipment, undertake scientific assessments, answer questions for prizes and learn how science is applied to healthcare.
AND don’t forget to ask scientists what they do and why they love their jobs.
Blood and Bugs Workshop
Interactive Workshop
Presented by The Royal College of Pathologists
Based on activities delivered as part of the BBC WWI At Home roadshow, we will take you on an interactive journey exploring medical developments from 1914 to 2014.
You will gain insight into the contribution that pathology has made in healthcare as a result of the discoveries and innovations that occurred during WWI and discover the crucial role of pathology in healthcare today and in the foreseeable future.
Don Henderson Award
Competition
Young Scientists present their own work
Prior to today’s event we asked you to undertake a research project that you will present to the other schools in your group.
All presentations will be competing for The Association for Clinical Biochemistry & Laboratory Medicine Trophy for the Don Henderson Award.
The award will be presented at the end of the day.
CPD Teachers’ Workshop –
Taking the buzz back to the classroom
Presented by Kimberly C Gilmour
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
This is an interactive workshop where you will be provided with resources and information about science careers for your students.
In addition you will undertake several easy experiments based on the interactive stands that you can then share with your classes.
Outcomes:
- Increased knowledge of science career resources
- Ability to undertake experiments based on health science that can then be shared with students
Parasites – The master manipulators
Keynote Speaker
Dr Sheena Cruickshank
Parasites are the most common type of life of our planet and have existed from the time of the dinosaurs. Today Sheena is going to talk about some of the ways parasites manipulate their hosts to promote their own survival.
Sheena Cruickshank is a Senior Lecturer in the Manchester Immunology group in the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Manchester & a trustee in the British Society of Immunology.
Her research focuses on how immune responses start and on predicting why some people are resistant to infection and others are not and get long term or chronic inflammation.
Her background is in immunology and parasitology and her training has taken her from an undergraduate degree and work experience in Strathclyde University, to a PhD in Cancer Immunology in Leeds to postdoctoral work in gut immunology at Leeds University.
Dr Sheena Cruickshank
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester