From Weds to Friday last week I visited Ghana to do some volunteering in the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana. I taught some medical statistics as well as grant writing skills to the attendees of the 2nd Annual HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C Conference, which was being held in Kumasi. The aim […]
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In case any readers in Guildford are interested, you might like to know that Guildford Café Scientifique long ago serendipitously scheduled an event this evening on the LHC. The speaker is Prof Nick Evans, from our Sepnet partner institution the University of Southampton. More details are available on the Café Scientifique web site.
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It definitely felt like Saturday as I waited for the bus from the hotel at 7 this morning. The roads were much emptier, and the bus timetable at the stop told me that the most frequent service didn’t actually start until 8 at the weekend. Still, I got into town quickly, and failed to get […]
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Hello, keen followers of my exploits at the EuroScience Open Forum in Dublin. I mentioned in my Day 1 post that I thought the name of the event was a bit strange to me. Well, today, they have had their "policy" day, in which a large number of the events did not concern themselves with […]
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I skilfully navigated the bus network this morning to get in to the conference venue with time to spare for my first event. It was organised by the UK charity Sense About Science and was organised as a kind of career development event for young scientists. Peer review (examination of your work by others in […]
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I’m in Dublin as a delegate at something called the Euroscience Open Forum. To me, it is a science festival, but in typical European style, it has a rather strange name. It consists of a series of talks, discussions, debates, workshops, plays, poetry readings and much else besides, covering all areas of science, from my […]
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