Map of all of the UK schools taking part in June
We’re pleased to announce the schools and scientists taking part in our upcoming event which will run from 17th – 28th June.
As you can see from the map to the right, we have schools from all over the UK taking part, and there are a few from even further afield, including Spain and India.
As usual there’s been lots of interest – 5 scientists applied for each place – but we can now confirm those taking part in each zone…
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Scientists:
| Suzanne Harvey (University College London) |
I study primate communication, which involves trekking around the jungle with a microphone, recording monkey sounds! Using these recordings, we hope to learn about the evolution of human language as well as finding out what monkey sounds really mean… |
| Renata Medeiros (Cardiff University) |
I study the life of very tiny and mysterious seabirds, mainly by looking at their faeces, to find out how they respond to climate change – they are very cleaver and decide to eat more food when there is less and eat less food when there is more! |
| Kapila Ponnamperuma (University of Aberdeen) |
Self-Blogging Birds: Generating Stories of journeys of satellite tagged Red Kites in Scottish Highlands. |
| Joanna Bryson (University of Bath) |
I use artificial intelligence to model human and other animal behaviour |
| Claire El Mouden (University of Oxford) |
I use evolutionary models to try to understand how cooperation evolves in nature (both between members of the same species – like bees, and symbioses between different species – like humans and the bacteria which live in our stomachs). |
The Schools:
- Malmesbury School, Malmesbur
- Tile Hill Wood School, Coventry The John Lyon School, Harrow on the Hill
- The Mary Erskine School, Edinburgh
- Riverside College Halton, Widnes
- Sir John Leman High School, Beccles
- Hameldon Community College, Burnley
- Abbotsmede Primary School, Peterborough
- Landscove Primary, Newton Abbot
- King’s School, Macclesfield
- Waddesdon Church of England School, Aylesbury
The Scientists:
| Rick Smith (University of Sheffield) |
Exploring the world of the incredibly small, using nano-technology to make new green technologies to save energy on a massive scale. |
| Colin Swift (Christie NHS Foundation Trust Manchester) |
My work involves protecting people from the hazards of radiation such as x-rays, gamma rays, lasers and ultraviolet radiation! |
| Charlotte Dalton (University of Manchester) |
I make sugar molecules similar to ones in your body, and study how they interact with proteins during cancer to help develop new medicines. |
| Catherine Fontinelle (St Helier Hospital) |
MY WORK STINKS! I look at a huge range of samples to find the bacteria, fungi and viruses that are causing infections in our patients. |
| Rebecca Scott (KU Leuven, Belgium) |
I shoot X-rays and lasers at really old objects, like Egyptian glass or Roman pottery, to see how, where and what they were made from |
The Schools:
- St Katherine’s, Pill
- Bexleyheath Academy, Bexleyheath
- Stockley Academy, Yiewsley
- The Rochester Grammar, Rochester
- St Edward’s Prep School, Reading
- Caroline Chisholm School, Wootton
- Glancorse Primary School, Penicuik
- Slough Grammar School, Slough
- Archbishop Ilsley Catholic School, Birmingham
The Scientists:
| Sadaf Saad Anjum (Cranfield University) |
Currently researching for a PhD in manufacturing of shape memory nano-composites for body, which will be very very thin materials making channels in body controlling fluidity (e.g.: blood flow) automatically by opening and closing. |
| Katie Greenhalgh (University of Leeds) |
I work with blood, looking at how we stop bleeding when we cut ourselves. |
| Kat Tsaousi (University of Bristol) |
Finding genes that contribute to heart disease by narrowing the arteries. |
| Annie Box (UCLH Haematology and Blood transufusion) |
I investigate peoples blood and help doctors diagnose deadly diseases, using advance technology and various advanced methods. |
| Andrew Swale (University of Liverpool) |
My work on a hospital superbug causing severe diarrhoea involves searching for potential biomarkers in patients’ blood and faeces! |
The Schools:
- Wimbledon High School, London
- Tile Hill Wood, Coventry
- Bournemouth School for Girls, Bournemouth
- Kingsbury High School, Kingsbury
- The City Academy, Hackney
- Vyne Community School, Basingstoke
- The Bishop Wand Church of England School, Sunbury on Thanes
The Scientists:
| Vince Hall (University of Warwick) |
Finding how medicines work with our bodies using intelligent computers. |
| Hannah Little (University of Brussels) |
I get humans (and sometimes computers) to learn artificial languages to try to understand why and how speech and language got to be the way they are. |
| Gopal Ramchurn (University of Southampton) |
I invent new ways of interacting with computers and smart phones – making them more intelligent to give us more fun! (and save us time… to have more fun!) |
| Becky Cook (University College London) |
I’m a research scientist, I look at how normal cells protect themselves from becoming cancerous to help us better understand how cancer develops so we can beat it! |
| Angela Hackett (University of Liverpool) |
Children with cerebral palsy often inhale acid into their lungs so I investigate how their lung cells become stressed in this acidic environment so that a suitable treatment can be found to keep the lung cells happy |
The Schools:
- Sandon School, Chelmsford
- John of Gaunt, Trowbridge
- Walthamstow Academy, London
- Stockley Academy, Yiewsley
- Beacon Hill Community School, Aspatria
- Sandal Endowed Junior School, Wakefield
- Berritzegune Nagusia, Bilbao, Spain
- Inverness High School, Inverness
- Longhill High School, Rottingdean
- Gresham’s School, Holt
The Scientists:
| Mario Ruiz (University College London) |
I’m a Cell Biologist, and I play with cells trying to find what it makes them turning from happy and healthy into upset and cancerous |
| Jasmine Penny (University of Nottingham) |
I look at the behaviour of a dog cell type when grown in the lab in order to better understand how joint disease can be treated. |
| Helen Tunbridge (University of Bristol) |
I make movies of immune cells to understand how a treatment for a disease changes how they act. |
| Andrew Devitt (Aston University) |
I love death of cells and my work is all about trying to work out how cell death affects our bodies and how we deal with this death, because it keeps us healthy and when it goes wrong we get some pretty nasty diseases. |
| Alexis Barr (The Institute of Cancer Research) |
I work in Cancer Research – trying to find ways to kill cancer cells that have started to grow out of control but leaving normal, healthy cells alive. |
The Schools:
- Kingsbury High School, Kingsbury
- Oldfield School, Bath
- Loughborough Grammar School, Loughborough
- The Peele Community College, Spalding
- St Joseph’s College, Dumfries
- Sanday Community School, Sanday
- Hayesfield Girls’ School, Bath
- Bryn Celynnog Comprehensive School, Pontypridd
- Ernulf Academy, St Neots
The Scientists:
| Susana Teixeira (Keele University) |
I am a neutron crystallographer: I use beams from nuclear reactors to look for the tiniest of all atoms – hydrogen atoms are a needle in a haystack when it comes to proteins – and find out how they can give us a sweet tooth. |
| Sam Horrell (University of Liverpool) |
I am an X-ray Crystallographer, this means I genetically modify bacteria to produce protein and then use X-ray vision from a particle accelerator to find out what proteins looks like, what they do in the body and how we can change what they do to prevent |
| Ed Lowe (University of Oxford) |
I use a synchrotron as a giant microscope to look at the shape of the molecules we are made of and study how they work. |
| Dave Briggs (University of Manchester) |
I am a crystallographer – I make 3D maps of all the atoms in molecules in our bodies to figure out what they look like, how they work, and why they sometimes go wrong! |
| Ben Hall (John Innes Centre) |
I study organisms that infect potato and tomato plants and the weapons they produce which make them successful. |
The Schools:
- The Ockendon Academy, Thurrock
- Lingfield Notre Dame, Lingfield
- The Peele Community College, Spalding
- Chichester High School for Girls, Chichester
- Lathallan School, Montrose
- Woodkirk Academy, Wakefield
- Arnold Hill Academy, Nottingham
- Nisai Virtual Academy, Stockton on Tees
- St Mungo’s Academy, Glasgow
- Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Engineering College, Skelmersdale
- Sunderland High School, Sunderland
The Scientists:
| Ruth Mitchell (University of Bristol) |
I am a PhD student looking at immune tolerance in autoimmune disease |
| Peter Balfe (University of Birmingham) |
Teaches Virology in the U of Birmingham Med. School, works on Hepatitis C Virus and liver disease. |
| Paul Waines (University of Plymouth) |
I study ‘tap slime’, which is actually a living, breathing community of bugs which can sometimes cause diseases in hospitals, hotels and other large buildings. |
| Lyn Lim (Babraham Institute, Cambridge) |
I’m trying to find out why the battle between cancer and our immune system is so one-sided – what can we do to help our body’s army win? |
| Katy Brown (University of Nottingham) |
I use computers to find out which diseases monkeys and apes (including humans) used to catch millions of years ago. |
The Schools:
- Kingsbury High School, Kingsbury
- Beckfoot School, Bradford
- Dawlish Community College, Dawlish
- Holly Lodge Girls College, Liverpool
- Lucton School, Leominster
- Bushey Meads, Watford
- St Martin-in-the-Fields High School for Girls, London
- Langley Grammar School, Langley
- Backwell School, Backwell
- Penn Hall, Wolverhampton
The Scientists:
| Simon Holyoake (British Geological Survey) |
I’m an electronics engineer, currently designing a machine which smashes rocks with sledgehammers and measures the total energy required to do so! |
| Laura Roberts Artal (University of Liverpool) |
In the very early history of the Universe there were solar storms, radiation and super strong winds, Planet Earth survived, whilst Mars died; I study some of the oldest rocks in the world to understand why. |
| Hannah Bentham (University of Leeds) |
I’m a seismologist and I use earthquakes to scan the interior of the Earth looking for graveyards of old ocean floors so we can discover the locations of ancient plate boundaries, earthquakes and tsunamis. |
| Christian Maerz (Newcastle University) |
I am trying to find out what the climate and environment was like in the past – this involves exciting research cruises and the use of nasty acids |
| Angus Ferraro (University of Reading) |
I’m trying to find out whether using an artificial volcano to stop the Earth warming up is a sensible idea. |
The Schools:
- Buckswood School, Hastings
- St Cuthbert’s Catholic Community College, St Helens
- Kingsmead Community School, Wiveliscombe
- The Warwick School, Redhill
- Broadoak Maths and Computing College, Weston super Mare
- Meols Cop High School, Southport
The Scientists:
| Rhodri Jenkins (University of Bath) |
I study the stuff that microbes make to see if it can be used to fuel the cars and planes of the future, and make sure we’ll all be able to on holidays! |
| Matt Hudson (Shell – Aviation Technology) |
I keep airplanes and helicopters in the sky with chemistry! |
| Matt Carnie (Swansea University) |
I use cheap materials to turn the Sun’s rays into electricity! |
| Helen Pritchard-Smith (University of Bristol) |
Finding an efficient way of using carbon dioxide to make useful materials |
| Chia-Yu Lin (University of Cambridge) |
Capture sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen |
The Schools:
- Waddesdon Church of England School, Aylesbury
- Worden Sports College, Preston
- Carshalton Boys Sports College, Carshalton
- The Mary Erskine School, Edinburgh
- St Anne’s Catholic School, Southampton
- Pencae School, Conwy
- English Martyrs School & Sixth Form College, Cleveland
- Broadoak Mathematics and Computing College, Weston super Mare
- Blackfen School for Girls, Kent
- St. Bede’s College, Manchester
The Scientists:
| Sam Geen (Observatoire de Lyon, France) |
I use supercomputers to try to understand how exploding stars change how galaxies are made. |
| Robert Woolfson (University of Manchester) |
I’m a chemist trying to build a new kind of computer, one where instead of things being yes or no they can be both at the same time |
| Matt Pankhurst (University of Leeds) |
I work out when, how and why volcanoes erupt, to better prepare us for the next volcanic catastrophe. |
| Kate Husband (University of Bristol) |
Looking for clustering of galaxies in the distant universe |
| Claire Lee (CERN) |
I’m a PhD student on the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC at CERN – the world’s most awesome particle physics experiment – and (in addition to helping to keep the experiment running smoothly) I work on a new and independent way to measure energy. |
The Schools:
- Waddesdon Church of England School, Aylesbury
- Hove Park School, Hove
- Blatchingtonmill School and Sixth Form College, Hove
- Jedburgh Grammar School, Jedburgh
- Tarbert academy, Tarbert
- Great Marlow, Marlow
- Varndean School, Brighton
- Churston Ferrers Grammar School, Brixham
- St Mary Redcliffe and Temple, Bristol
- Withington Girls’ School, Manchester
- Lathallan School, Montrose
The Scientists:
| Keith Siew (University of Cambridge) |
I’m a physiologist, which means I try to figure out how living things work… things like you! Work involves blood, bones and body bits… but especially the kidneys which control blood pressure, and the amount of salt & water in our bodies |
| Heather Eyre (University of Manchester) |
I’m a biologist looking at what happens as your kidneys stop working properly, mainly collecting wee samples and looking at bits of kidney under a microscope. |
| Elaine Marshall (University of Edinburgh) |
I manage large research projects involved in understanding how the human brain works: we are currently building a 3D model of the whole brain! |
| Derek Ball (Heriot-Watt University) |
We look are trying to understand how fat cells work because they do more than just store fat |
| Olabimpe Okosun (University of Pretoria, South Africa) |
Investigation of chemical communication and organisation in honeybees |
The Schools:
- Lathallan School, Montrose
- City Of London Boys School, London
- Loughborough Grammar School, Loughborough
- Sirius Academy, Hull
- MidKent College, Kent
- Kirkcaldy High School, Fife
- Twynham School, Christchurch
- Churston Ferrers Grammar School, Brixham
- Trentham High School, Stoke on Trent
- Blessed Robert Johnson Catholic College, Telford
The Scientists:
| Luca Angius (University of Kent) |
Cardiovascular and nervous regulation during physical exercise |
| Liam Bagley (Manchester Metropolitan University) |
I give people very intense exercises to do, then slice tiny pieces of muscle out of their leg and take their blood to analyse it to see if their health has improved, as well as making them fitter and less likely to get a diseases like Diabetes or Heart Disease |
| Emma Ross (University of Brighton) |
I look at how our body (particularly the central nervous system and muscles) works in extreme environments such as high heat, or low oxygen. |
| Damian Bailey (University of South Wales) |
I’m interested how “super-human” extreme athletes get enough oxygen to their brains which sets the limits to how high they can climb, how deep they can dive, how fast they can run and funnily enough, how long they can live! |
| Alan Richardson (University of Brighton) |
I investigate how Fire Instructors tolerate going into fires as part of their everyday work and whether this causes them to get ill, from this I try to research the best practices to reduce the impact on their health |
The Schools:
- St Saviour’s and St Olave’s, London
- Blackfen School for Girls, Kent
- Carshalton Boys Sports College, Carshalton
- Wymondham High School, Wymondham
- Stone Hill School, Doncaster
- Uckfield Community Technology College, Uckfield
- Birchwood High School, Bishops Stortford
- Thistley Hough High School, Stoke-On-Trent
- St Andrews Church of England Primary, Sherborne
- Settlebeck School, Cumbria
- Our Lady of Sion College, Victoria
The Scientists:
| Steven Gardner (University of Cardiff) |
I fire X-rays at eyes to try to find out how they are put together, and why they sometimes don’t work properly. |
| Samaneh Maysami (University of Manchester) |
Saving brain from injury |
| Jess Bean (University of Bath) |
I’m fighting the war against bacteria, and bacterial resistance to drugs, by developing wound dressings containing antibacterial enzymes |
| Colin Dick (Lotus F1 Team) |
Working with my teammates, I try to design the fastest Formula 1 racing car by choosing the best shapes and materials to beat the other teams and then, if we’ve done a good job, we get to enjoy the thrill of winning (and the champagne)! |
| Christina Pagel (University College London) |
I use maths to help answer questions like: have too many children died at that hospital? How do we decide who gets to live or die in a deadly flu outbreak? How can we stop the poorest mothers and babies dying in Asia? |
The Schools:
- Sandon School, Chelmsford
- Vyners School, London
- St Laurence School, Bradford on Avon
- Kesteven and Sleaford High School Selective Academy, Sleaford
- Westfield Primary School, Woking
- Crawshaw Academy, Leeds
- St Marys Catholic School, Bishops Stortford
- Longton Primary School, Preston
- Acle Adademy, Acle
- St Georges Acdemy, Sleaford
- Hove Park School, Hove
The Scientists:
| Stuart Archer (University of Sheffield) |
I create artificial leaves that use sunlight to make hydrogen – a super explosive gas packed with energy that could power the cars of the future! |
| Simone Sturniolo (STFC – Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) |
I am part of a group of researchers working with computers: we run simulations to predict the ‘big’ qualities of new, and often odd, materials (like color, electrical conductivity, magnetism) starting from their ‘small’ structure – atoms and subatomic particles! |
| Serena Corr (University of Glasgow) |
I am a chemist who works with extremely small materials called nanoparticles for energy uses, which means I get to use very special equipment including x-rays, neutrons and electron microscopes to study their behaviour. |
| Josh Makepeace (University of Oxford) |
I’m trying to help us get ‘green’ cars that run on hydrogen (collected from water!) by making and testing materials that store energy. |
| Alex Munnoch (University of Glasgow) |
I work on a wide range of things but mainly on the green (catalytic) chemistry of solids such as crystals, glasses and spongy minerals which can have massive surface areas (10g = 1 football pitch). |
The Schools:
- The Angmering School, Angmering
- Dukeries Academy, Ollerton
- Blatchingtonmill School and Sixth Form College, Hove
- St Benedict’s School, Ealing
- Bushey Meads, Bushey
- Kirkland High School and Community College, Fife
- Portree High School, Isle of Skye
- Sandal Endowed, Wakefield
- Penicuik High School, Penicuik
The Scientists:
| Jack Miller (University of Oxford) |
I use quantum mechanics to try and spot brain cancer before doctors can! |
| Fiona Coomer (University of Strathclyde) |
Making magnets with some really unusual properties |
| David Freeborn (University College London) |
I look at the data from smashing together atoms to try to understand what they’re made from. |
| Dave Farmer (University of Nottingham) |
I hit stuff with a stick and watch it wobble to see what happens, except the stuff I hit is 1000 times thinner than a human hair and the stick is actually a giant laser. |
| Chris Mansell (Open University) |
I am trying to build a really fast computer know as a “quantum computer” out of laser beams and a few extremely cold atoms. |
The Schools:
- St Cuthbert’s Catholic Community College, St Helen’s
- The Radcliffe School, Milton Keynes
- Downend School, Bristol
- Spalding High School, Spalding
- Chosen Hill School, Gloucester
- The Ravensbourne School, Bromley
- Hove Park School, Hove
- Downside School, Radstock
The Scientists:
| Michelle Taylor (University of Exeter) |
I ask myself every day ‘why do females like the males they do? ‘ as I want to know why some animals are good at living and reproducing and some die out very quickly. |
| Jennie Douthwaite (University of Bristol) |
I look at how chemicals moving around your body help send messages to places important for things like reproduction. |
| Emmanuel Amabebe (University of Sheffield) |
Prediction of preterm delivery from vaginal fluid metabolites and microflora of pregnant women at risk. |
| Chris Whittle (University of Manchester) |
I am currently looking at how diabetes in pregnancy causes the baby to develop health problems after it is born because of changes that happen to its DNA. |
| Alberto Lapedriza (University of Bath) |
I’m working with a small fish called “zebrafish” to learn how embryos, which are created by the union of a sperm from your father and an egg cell from your mother, develop into an adult organism with so many different cells, carrying out special jobs and |
The Schools:
- Attleborough High School, Norfolk
- The Angmering School, Angmering
- Blatchingtonmill School and Sixth Form College, Hove
- Bramdean School, Exeter
- Prior Park College, Bath
- Mahindra World School, India
- Queen Elizabeth School, Cumbria
- Blackfen School for Girls, Sidcup
- Loughborough High School, Loughborough
The Scientists:
| Sarah-Jane Walsh (University of Essex) |
I’m a marine biologist trying to save our oceans from global warming and the homes of Nemo and his friends! |
| Ravi Kopparapu (Penn State University) |
I try to find which planets outside our solar system are suitable for life (even intelligent life)! |
| Kinda Al-Hourani (University of Oxford) |
I look at how our cells zap invading viruses. |
| Jane Paget (University of Aberdeen) |
Researching how a protein could be used to replace bad (disease causing) genes with good (healthy) genes. |
| Andrew Manches (University of Edinburgh) |
I look at how using technologies like iPads changes how young children think and learn |
The Schools:
- Sandon School, Chelmsford
- Cliff Park High School, Gorleston
- Winsley CofE Primary School, Bradford on Avon
- Marshalls Park School, Romford
- Chichester High School for Girls, Chichester
- Sibford School, Banbury
- Bushey Meads School, Bushey
- Oaklodge Special School, East Finchley
- Walthamstow Academy, Waltham Forest
- Kingfield School, Woking
- Hove Park School, Hove
The Scientists:
| Mark Hodson (University of York) |
I do a lot of work with earthworms, currently I’m trying to find out if they can save us from global warming, what they can tell us about past climates, how they survive in poisonous soil and how they can help us design invisibility cloaks |
| Jono Bone (University College London) |
I research why and how humans have evolved to cooperate with each other so remarkably well and the role that punishment plays in maintaining this cooperation. |
| Ian Wilson (University of Liverpool) |
I’m learning what weapons and defences a really nasty killer microbe has so that scientists can work out how to fight it. |
| Hannah Brotherton (University of Manchester) |
Can’t get a tune out of your head? How about a single note…….this is known as ringing in the ears and I look at how these are created in the brain. |
| Daniela Plana (University of Bristol) |
I’m an Electrochemist: I use electricity to do chemical reactions or use chemicals to produce electricity |
The Schools:
- Sacred Heart College, Omagh
- St Laurence School, Bradford on Avon
- Cliff Park High School, Gorleston
- The Gilberd School, Colchester
- Hurstmere school, Kent
- Heathfield School for Girls, Pinner
- Simon Balle School, Hertford
- Dixons City Academy, Bradford
- Gresham’s School, Norfolk
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