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Marvellous Microscopes
Insects, worms, bugs and more: what lives in your garden? Our gardens and ponds are teeming with life - microscopic plants and animals are everywhere. Using our research microscopes you can get up close and personal and look into this microscopic world that is all around us.
You can also have a go at our quiz "Everyday objects under the microscope" for a chance to win your own microscope.
Marvellous Microscopes
Re - Engineering Healthcare
The Wessex Academic Health Science Network - Centre for Implementation Science, will present examples of how healthcare reengineering helps NHS organisations to reorder priorities, provide more cost-effective care, and increase value to patients.
Re - Engineering Healthcare
Organ-ise Me
Do you know your liver from your lung? Your brain from your bone?
At this interactive exhibit you can have a go at organising the body organs and see what they look like under a microscope.
Organ-ise Me
Serious Slime: Beating Bugs And Biofilms
Bacteria don't live alone, in fact often they form communities called biofilms. Find out how these communities form and impact our everyday lives, from brushing your teeth to the medical care that we receive. Get the chance to look at these bacteria under a microscope, build your own biofilm and then try to destroy it!
Serious Slime: Beating Bugs And Biofilms
How To Get To 100 And Enjoy It
All ages
Type: Interactive exhibit
http://www.liveto100.cpc.ac.uk/home/
What are your chances of living to 100? How do your early years, family life, where you live, lifestyle and work affect these chances? Come visit our stall to find out.
Explore the latest facts in our app 'How to get to 100 and enjoy it'. Investigate attitudes to ageing with our interactive data game. Take an "aged forward" selfie, play Pac-Man, or see the world through the eyes of someone with an age-related ailment. For younger visitors, use our Lego stations to build your own population pyramid and tell us all about the population of your imaginary dataset!
How To Get To 100 And Enjoy It
All ages
Type(s):
- Science and Engineering Day
- Southampton Science and Engineering Digital Shed
http://www.liveto100.cpc.ac.uk/home/
https://twitter.com/CPCpopulation
What are your chances of living to 100?
How do your early years, family life, where you live, lifestyle and work affect these chances?
Our population change and ageing experts will be on-hand to answer any burning questions you may have. Explore the latest facts further in our app 'How to get to 100 and enjoy it'.
Investigate attitudes to ageing with our interactive data game. Take an "aged forward" selfie, help Pac-Man make healthy choices, or see the world through the eyes of someone with an age-related ailment.
For younger minds (and grown-ups too!), download our Lego building guides to make your own population pyramids. Tweet us your pictures, telling us all about the population of your imaginary dataset or ask us any questions you might have. At the end of the week, we will be choosing five winners from the pictures submitted, each winning a £10 Amazon voucher, so get your building fingers at the ready...
Link:
http://www.liveto100.cpc.ac.uk/home/Downloadable content:
Download 1Population Pyramid Worksheet
Download 2Live to 100 Workbook
Download 3Live to 100 Workbook answers
Download 4Key Points - 10 Things about 'How to Get to 100 and Enjoy it'! Tri-fold leaflet
How To Get To 100 And Enjoy It
Making 'light' Of Health And Disease
From mobile phones, satellites to microscopes and X-ray machines, all use different forms of light. Explore with hands-on interactive exhibits how the science of light, optics and imaging technologies, is helping advance the early detection, diagnosis and treatment of diseases.
Making 'light' Of Health And Disease
The A'-MAZE-ing Placenta
The placenta is critical to fetal growth and development. If the placenta does not work optimally, fetal growth and development suffers and this can lead to an increased risk of disease in later life. The a-MAZE-ing placenta, is a pregnancy based game in which you have to carefully navigate the nutrient ball around the placenta maze, avoiding pitfalls in pregnancy such as diabetes. The game tackles the issues of obesity, smoking and diabetes and visually explains why these factors are bad for a baby's growth and development.
The A'-MAZE-ing Placenta
Discovering The Cancer Treatments Of The Future
All ages
Type: Interactive exhibit
https://twitter.com/CRUKSouthampton
Advisory notice – this event contains the following elements:
Flashing Lights
How do cancer cells hide from the immune system? What are our researchers doing to stop cancer in its tracks? How can genetics be used to make treatment more personalised? Come and explore our interactive activities about cells, immunology and how the University of Southampton and Cancer Research UK are leading the way in cancer research.
Discovering The Cancer Treatments Of The Future
How Do You Decide What Problems Scientists Should Investigate?
Have you ever taken part in a research study? Wondered how scientists get money to do research? Could you choose which research is more important: healthy eating, air pollution, or growing plants in space?
Visit us to find out more about how decisions are made by organisations that give money to scientists to conduct research? We will open the 'black box' of decision-making and share our experience about how decisions are made and the challenges decision-makers face. You can have a go at making funding decisions and tell us YOUR thoughts about what could work better.
How Do You Decide What Problems Scientists Should Investigate?
How Safe Is Your Hospital?
Age: 16+
Type: Interactive exhibit
How many nurses do you need to ensure your hospital ward is 'safe'?
Do nurses need a university education?
What happens if we get staffing decisions wrong?
Come to our interactive quiz and simulation of hospital staffing. Explore how mathematicians, economists, statisticians and nurses are working together to answer questions such as these and make sure that hospitals provide safe nurse staffing.
How Safe Is Your Hospital?
Giant Kerplunk! Fetus's Guide To Lifelong Health
All ages
Type: Interactive exhibit
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/medicine/research/ids/ids-public-engagement.page
Did you know that the way your body is built during the 9 months of pregnancy helps you respond to challenges for the rest of your life? It is a big part of what makes you healthy! Come and play our game of Giant Kerplunk and discover how life before birth holds the ultimate answer to health potential.
Giant Kerplunk! Fetus's Guide To Lifelong Health
Measure Muscle And Helping Hands
Our 'Measure Muscle' activity will measure and plot your grip strength to show how muscle strength changes with age, and what we can do to try and stay healthy and active. In 'Helping Hands' you can test your fine movement skills against the clock, experience the difference that an illness or injury might make and see how your results compare with others across age-ranges.
Measure Muscle And Helping Hands
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Including Staff Networks
All ages
Type: Interactive exhibit
The stand will provide information about Equality, Diversity and Inclusion matters and promote the support services which are available to staff and students at the University of Southampton. This will include information about the staff networks which include Parent & Carer's Staff Network, Pulse LGBT+ Staff Network, Shine (BAME) Network, WiSET plus Harassment Contacts and Faith Reflection Centre who provide support to staff and students. In addition, there will be an activity to make a cootie catcher (fortune teller) and a dove of unity hand print wreath. Both activities are at initial stages and may be subject to change.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Including Staff Networks
Feet For Life
The Feet for Life exhibition comprises a number of interactive demonstrations promoting Foot awareness and a healthy life style. Join us to explore how we demonstrate blood flow within the feet by utilising the Doppler Effect. See how portable imaging can tell us about the health of soft tissue in the foot and ankle. Ever wondered how the pressure on the sole of your foot can be measured in a scientific manner to help in the diagnosis of foot disorders?
We look forward to seeing you as we enter this fascinating world linking science, engineering and healthcare.
Feet For Life
Looking After Your Good Gut 'bugs'
100 trillion. That is how many 'bugs', also known as bacteria, live inside your gut. Our bodies and these bugs work together every day to keep us healthy. Our lifestyle, and especially our diets, can help the good bacteria survive and protect against harmful bacteria. Play "good bug, bad bug" with us, to find out how we can maintain a healthy gut.
Looking After Your Good Gut 'bugs'
100 trillion. That is how many 'bugs', also known as bacteria, live inside your gut!
Our bodies and these bugs work together every day to keep us healthy. Our lifestyle, and especially our diets, can help the good bacteria survive and protect against harmful bacteria.
Play our range of "good bug, bad bug" games and activities, to find out how you can look after your gut bugs.
Downloadable content:
Download 1Play 'The Gut Game' and take a journey through the gut. Will you win the fight against the bad bugs with healthy food? Game is for two or more players, you will need a dice and some characters to move around the board.
Download 2Try our interactive quiz - do you know what is your good gut bugs' favourite food? Here you can also take a look at the pictures our our team playing the 'Good Bug, Bad Bug' game on recent visits to local events.
Download 3Enjoy a selection of colouring pages for children of all ages to enjoy - together with some interesting facts about your gut bugs and their favourite foods.
Download 4Want to know more about your gut bugs? Here are some factsheets for kids and grown ups to learn more about what they are, what they can do and why your diet matters.
Download 5A fun word search - can you find where the fruit and vegetables are hiding?
Looking After Your Good Gut 'bugs'
The Mouse Exchange
Where do lab mice come from? Where do they end up? We invite adults and children to join us to craft felt mice for our growing colony and explore the history, practices, and ideas of care involved in making lab mice. We recognise thinking about animal research can stir strong feelings, therefore we have designed a curiosity-driven experience that allows participants to be in control of exploring this topic. Please join us to sew a mouse, to discuss insights from human geography research on the bio-technical practices of making lab animals and our relations to them.
The Mouse Exchange
Helping Mothers Feel Good About Feeding Babies
All ages
Type: Interactive exhibit
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/philosophy/research/projects/philosophy-of-pregnancy.page
Join us for an interactive activity using philosophical research and crafts to explore feelings and attitudes to pregnancy, birth and baby-feeding. This activity draws on research by Dr Fiona Woollard and Elselijn Kingma in the Philosophy of Pregnancy, Birth and Early Motherhood. (Children are welcome and can just enjoy craft!) For more details about our research see: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/philosophy/research/projects/philosophy-of-pregnancy.page
How Can Philosophy Help Mothers Feel Good About How They Feed Their Babies?
All ages
Type(s):
- Science and Engineering Day
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/philosophy/research/projects/philosophy-of-pregnancy.page
Feeding babies can often be a joyful and satisfying experience. But things don't always feel so good. Many women suffer from shame, guilt and embarrassment surrounding decisions about how they feed their babies, whether they are breastfeeding directly or feeding expressed breastmilk or infant formula in a bottle or tube.
Southampton Philosopher, Professor Fiona Woollard, has worked with the NCT and Breastfeeding Network to produce resources to explore feeling about feeding babies.
Watch the short video, explore the website and join Fiona for a Q&A about why how we feed our babies can be such a difficult subject and how she thinks philosophy can help.
Visit the website: https://feelingsaboutfeedingbabies.co.uk
Helping Mothers Feel Good About Feeding Babies
Scaffolds And Cells - Making Replacement Body Parts In The Lab
All ages
Type: Interactive exhibit
Stem cells have exciting potential to repair the body following injury or disease. This hands on exhibit uses a giant 3D pinball machine to explain the potential of stem cells and will give you a taste of the exciting technologies being developed to harness this potential in medicine.
Scaffolds And Cells - Making Replacement Body Parts In The Lab
The Wonderful World Of Skin
Your skin is amazing! Come and discover why your skin is so important and explore how it works by building the cells of the skin in your very own Petri dish. See how much you know by taking our quiz and learn some fascinating new facts along the way. Don't forget to speak to our lovely scientists who can answer all your questions about the skin and find out how they are working to find new ways to keep your skin healthy!
The Wonderful World Of Skin
All ages
Type(s):
- Science and Engineering Day
- Southampton Science and Engineering Digital Shed
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/ita/index.page?
Our skin is amazing!
These activities from the Systems Immunology Group will help you to learn all about your skin. Take part in our interactive quiz, learn about the different cells in your skin with our fun activity booklet, and see if you can beat our online game and protect the skin!
We've got something for all ages so come and take a look!
If you would like to learn more or ask questions, then visit our Twitter page @SIG_PolakLab
Link:
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/393804968/Downloadable content:
Download 1Here is our interactive quiz! Simply download the file and play the slide show. Click on the buttons to move through the quiz and see what new facts you can learn!
Download 2Here is our fun activity booklet full of skin-related ideas to try!
Download 3Here is a poster giving some information on the skin and the cells that make it.
The Wonderful World Of Skin
Discover Medical Research
All ages
Type: Interactive exhibit
https://twitter.com/southamptoncrf?lang=en
https://www.facebook.com/SouthamptonNIHRClinicalResearchFacility/
We now know lots about how we can stay healthy, what makes us unwell and how we can find and treat illnesses better and more quickly. However, there is still so much more to discover! Come and find out more about how scientists are using medical research to answer these questions and more. You can also learn how you could help.
Discover Medical Research
Go Fish: Healthy Fat Facts
Omega-3 fats have positive effects on our heart, eye and brain health, and help lower inflammation. However, we eat much less than the recommended daily intake of these fats. Play "O-fish-oil omega-3" with us to find out how much we currently eat, how much we should eat, and how we can improve our intake of omega-3 fats.
Go Fish: Healthy Fat Facts
7+
Type(s):
- Science and Engineering Day
14:00
1 hour
https://twitter.com/UoS_Nutrition
Did you know that both children and adults in the UK don't get enough omega-3 in our diet (from the food we eat)?!
We currently eat 10 times less omega-3 than we should!
Omega-3 fats are important for our health but do you know why, how much we should be eating, and where we can get these from?
Play our range of games and activities to find out more and why our diet matters!
You can also ask real life scientists questions about our diet, health and omega-3s in our Twitter Q&A! Follow and tweet https://twitter.com/UoS_Nutrition to join one of the following live chats:
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.- Saturday 18 July, 2:00pm - 3:00pm, on #Goodbugs
(Q: Where do most of the #Goodbugs in our body live? Where do we get our #Goodbugs from? Does everyone have the same #Goodbugs? What do you think is your #Goodbugs' favourite food? What foods do you know which have #Goodbugs? What are probiotics and prebiotics?)
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.- Saturday 25 July, 2:00pm - 3:00pm, on #GoFish
(Q: Which food has the most #omega3? Do you eat fish? How much fish should we eat? Can you spot an oily fish? What are vegetarian or vegan sources of #omega3? How might eating fish during pregnancy affect your baby?)
Downloadable content:
Download 1Want to know more about omega-3 and our diet? Download the factsheet to learn more about what they are, what they are good for, what foods they are in, and why our diet matters.
Download 2Play the top trump card game. Find out how different foods affect our health and see if your food can trump (beat) your opponents! This game is for two or more players and you will need to print the cards at home.
Download 3A fun word search. Can you find the hidden foods that contain omega-3?
Download 4Get creative with our colouring in sheets.
Go Fish: Healthy Fat Facts
Young-doctor Project - Health Education For Life
Join a team of Year-9 students from a local school for a showcase of what they've been learning in the Young-Doctor Project. This is focused on an interactive learning environment with 3D animations of the human body, 3D printed organs, games and much more. Come and learn more about the changes and transformations of the human body. This is a research project led by Solent University in partnership with the Public Engagement with Research unit (PERu) at the University of Southampton.
Young-doctor Project - Health Education For Life
Young-Doctor Project is an interactive health-education program. It is based on 3D computer graphics animations of the human body developed by the Virtual Human Project, self-guided learning, and even a co-created board game that you can play online. It is aimed at year-09 and year-10 students, but everybody is invited to LEARN+
In this activity, you will access three interactive infographics regarding some of the most harmful substances for the human body: Alcohol, Drugs, and Smoking.
Find out information about behaviour, facts and data, and physiology. By the end of each topic, you will be able to test how much you've learnt and how prepared you are to behave when the time comes. If you'll be keen to, we also invite you to keep learning while you have fun with an online board game.
This resource was partially co-created with year-09 students from Oasis Academy Lord's Hill.
Follow the link below to enter Learn+ and begin your journey into the knowledge!
Young-doctor Project - Health Education For Life
The British Heart Foundation Big Top
All ages
Type: Exhibition
https://www.instagram.com/the_bhf/
Advisory notice – this event contains the following elements:
Loud Sounds
For most, a circus brings to mind jugglers, clowns and acrobats. For the British Heart Foundation, however, the circus has taken on a whole new meaning. Presenting The Big Top - a BHF circus-themed travelling show focusing on the life-saving research we fund. From diving into our gene pool to hitting the 'bad' antibodies, roll up and take on a fairground of fun. The BHF funds over £100 million of research each year into all heart and circulatory diseases and the things that cause them.
The British Heart Foundation Big Top
Community Engagement Hubs Pop-Up
All ages
Type: Interactive exhibit
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/per/university/pe-hubs.page
Fancy talking, learning and discovering amazing facts about nature? Concerned about health and interested in knowing more about healthy living, mental health and well-being? Then, you shouldn't miss out on joining us at the Community Engagement Hubs Pop-up as we talk about these topics using current research and resources and interactive activities.
You can also have a go at our range of creative games such as the color code fruit game and of-course quizzes on health and nature.
See you!
Community Engagement Hubs Pop-Up
See Inside The Human Body
All ages
Type: Interactive exhibit
Come and see inside the human body with our Anatomage Table. The Anatomage Table is an amazing 3D body visualization system, which has been, adopted within the teaching of our students here in Health Sciences.
You will be able to visualise the body exactly as you would on a fresh cadaver. Individual structures are reconstructed in accurate 3D, resulting in an unprecedented level of real accurate anatomy, dissectible in 3D.
See Inside The Human Body
Germ Defence
Digital Event only.
Germ Defence
All ages
Type(s):
- Science and Engineering Day
- Brand new event
- Covid-19 Special
Germ Defence is a website designed by scientists, doctors and members of the public (from Southampton, Bristol and Bath) working with Public Health England.
It provides simple advice for 'infection control' behaviours to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
Germ Defence has been shown to work in a large trial of 20,000 people and it's freely available at http://germdefence.org/.
Germ Defence
Papercutting - Wellbeing In Traditional Chinese Way
Digital Event only.
Papercutting - Wellbeing In Traditional Chinese Way
5+
Type(s):
- Science and Engineering Day
- Brand new event
- Southampton Science and Engineering Digital Shed
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/ci/news/events/latest.page
Paper Cutting is a very distinctive visual art of Chinese handicrafts. Its history may date back to the 6th century. From the 7th to 13th century, paper cutting became popular especially during Chinese festivals. The art spreads to the rest of the world in the 14th century.
Papercutting is a good practice to reduce your stress from working at home and contribute to your wellbeing. The digital input in this session will provide you with some basic paper folding methods and cut-outs, which can easily be practised at home.
Traditional Chinese papercutting is usually symmetrical. There are basic cut-outs, consisting of a single image, and symmetrical designs. They are usually created by some folding over a proportioned crease, and then cutting a shape, so that when unfolded, it forms a symmetrical design. The basic folds of the paper are two (extending to 8), five and six, which are demonstrated in three video clips in this session.
Materials you need to prepare are simple.
• Coloured papers
• A pair of scissors
• A pen
Having learned the basic ways of folding the paper, you may design your own patterns and enjoy a sense of creativity and accomplishment.
Papercutting: two folds extending to eight https://youtu.be/EZkLl9t_3Sk
Papercutting: five folds patterns https://youtu.be/6BMtkfzwZAU
Papercutting: six folds patterns https://youtu.be/pgHkJBVI7SY
Papercutting - Wellbeing In Traditional Chinese Way
Cultivate! Can You Help Us Escape The Climate Change?
You have 30 minutes to solve our scientific challenges to reveal clues and complete Greta Thunberg's inspiring speech.
Our fun climate change themed escape room activity will get you exploring the biggest threats to the planet, how they affect growing plants and our food, and what this means for your health.
This activity is suitable for ages 7+ (with adult supervision).
To guarantee a place on this activity, you can book advance tickets using the link above. Four groups of 4 people can take part at the same time - you can sign up as a group of 4, alternatively sign up and work with new friends to find the answers.
Additional tickets will be available from the venue on the day, on a first-come-first-served basis.
Cultivate! Can You Help Us Escape The Climate Change?
7+
Type(s):
- Science and Engineering Day
15:00
1 hour
https://www.facebook.com/lifelabsouthampton/
Welcome to our virtual escape room. Working on your own, or in a family team, can you solve the puzzles, find the answers and help us Escape Climate change!
By clicking on the link https://nearpod.com/ and inputting the code LEKQD you can work through the e-Escape room at your own pace, and as many times as you want to.
Escaping climate change is a subject close to Greta Thunberg's heart, we need you to solve the puzzles to find the missing words from one of her speeches.
There are 5 puzzles for you to solve, each one will reveal a number, word or phrase that you will need to unlock the next puzzle. You will need to write down the answers, so that you can solve the final puzzle and fill in the missing blanks of Greta's speech.
If you did not joined us on Wednesday 8th July for a live session about the links between the global climate, growing edible plants and your health, you can catch up with the session now. Watch the video recording in the tab below with Drs Mark Chapman, Lucy Green and Kath Woods-Townsend and hear about some exciting scientific research about plants and human health, and the part you can play in helping your health and the health of generations to come.
Cultivate! Can You Help Us Escape The Climate Change?
Escape The Lab!
You're locked in the laboratory and have just 20 minutes to solve the science-based clues and complete our puzzle! Can you crack the code to Escape the Lab? This fun, research-themed escape room highlights current cancer research being done at the CRUK Southampton Centre and how Cancer Research UK is funding the most innovative science to help beat cancer. This activity is suitable for ages 7 and above.
To guarantee a place on this activity you can book advance tickets using the link above. Each group can be up to 8 people so please be aware that you may be in a group with other people. This activity is not suitable for under 7s.
