the-BA : Case Studies

DISC aims to provide science communication organisations with good practice methodologies and approaches for addressing the inclusion of ethnic minorities in science communication and science issues. We have showcased the work undertaken by science communicators in what will be an evolving showcase. If you would like to add to this, please email the relevant details to us.

Soho Science Club, Birmingham
This club, run by Soho House Museum, is a Saturday science workshop. Young people aged 9 - 11 who are from disadvantaged, socially excluded backgrounds, and are educated in the Soho ward of Birmingham, meet once a month.
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Plant Cultures, Liverpool
Plant Cultures is led by Royal Botanical Gardens Kew with National Museums Liverpool acting as one of the community outreach partners. They are involved in the project specifically to engage with local South Asian communities based in and around Merseyside.
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National Space Centre, Leicester
The Festival of Science and Culture 2005 celebrated cultural diversity in scientific achievements with all communities, and aimed to raise the aspirations and attainment in science of ethnic minority groups currently excluded from science.
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The Baytree Science Club, London
The Baytree Science Club is an after-school science workshop for 8-11 year-old girls from Brixton. Over the last two years, they have been teaching scientific, mainly biological, concepts in experiment-based classes to children from ethnic minorities and/or disadvantaged social backgrounds.
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Eccles health event, The BA
Recognising that the core part of the BA Festival of Science, being based at a university, would inhibit some people from attending, the overall purpose of this project was to run an event that reached members of BME groups in the Salford area (as that year the Festival was run at the University of Salford).
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decibel funding ambassador, Arts Council
decibel was a one-year project set up to raise the profile of African, Caribbean and Asian artists. The decibel funding ambassador was set up as an advocacy role to support these groups initially into the arts funding system.
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