I have some news... During 2023, I'll be on secondment as a new Parliamentary "Thematic Research Lead": helping to provide evidence to Parliament on climate & environmental science. If you're an academic & would like to be on the list of contacts I'm collecting, please reply! 🌍

And it's a wrap for 2022! One last post of the year to look back at all things ASDC over the past 12 months… sciencecentres.org.uk/news/2022-high… Wishing our members, team, trustees and all the people who work with us a happy festive holiday 🌟🫶🏾🌟

🚀Let’s go UK rocket launch Spaceport Cornwall !! 🚀👏💫 #CountdownToCornwall #LaunchUK

Huge congratulations for the team behind Sherwood Observatory planned science discovery centre & planetarium - just awarded a further £3.1 million. It’s an amazing design 👀! Fingers crossed open for visitors as soon as Autumn 2024 👏✨👏 Association for Science and Discovery Centres British Association of Planetaria

Invitation to tender: Mindsets + Missions project evaluation 📝 We're looking for an evaluation specialist to measure the impact of our Mindsets + Missions project with UK Research and Innovation, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Association for Science and Discovery Centres and The Liminal Space 🤝 Apply by 6 March 👉 ow.ly/OF1N50N3qLA

>60% of people either don’t feel R&D benefits ‘people like them’ or feel neutral/unsure about its impacts… “This is a precarious position for a sector that receives substantial public investment.” Excellent insights from #DiscoveryDecade for all in STEM participation 👇

Thanks Royal Observatory Greenwich Royal Museums Greenwich for this event with Mark Camplin director astrophysics NASA : Hot topics of NASA Webb Telescope ESAWebb science, unexpected discoveries and a future of habitable world exploration - all wrapped up with some excellent people & views in the sun☀️✨

This #Earthday we celebrate the launch of 'Our World From Space', a two-year STEM programme exploring the relevance of UK space science for the future health and sustainability of our home planet. Funded by UK Space Agency in partnership with Natural Environment Research Council sciencecentres.org.uk/projects/our-w…

Vicky visited Scottish Seabird Centre and brought back our proud first SDC fridge magnet! 🙌 Tadaaa 🙌 Unanimous decision Association for Science and Discovery Centres this is SO going to be a thing for our office 🌠

We're celebrating #VolunteersWeek with our next Members' Forum: Working effectively with volunteers, Wed 7th June, 2-3pm + the launch of our 2nd Volunteer of the Year Award, sponsored by Marsh Charitable Trust ASDC members please register 👇🏾 sciencecentres.org.uk/events/working…

ASDC heads home but #Ecsite2023 is buzzing! Great to see Life Science Centre @wethecurious Science Museum @nhm_London here in dazzling technicolour. Simply blissful to spend moments ‘mixing it up’ with international colleagues & friends in Malta 🇲🇹 Thankyou for the days Ecsite

“Ready to rock and roll” is how we’re feeling at #OurWorldFromSpace training academy 🤩 our largest programme yet! 45 colleagues from 22 centres and museums across the UK Association for Science and Discovery Centres

Amazing session on biodiversity from space from Rod Downie WWF UK & @PeterTFretwell British Antarctic Survey 🐧 the team behind #WalrusFromSpace 🤩 Next up... penguins from space with Dynamic Earth … 💩🐧#OurWorldFromSpace

We’re bluedot a wee bit soggy but happy 🙌 If you’re here come see us Explorer Dome

A few pics from the start and finish (with the blur of an amazing conference of connection between!) All brought together by the Power in Purpose 🙌 #ASDC23 it was a privilege and a lot of fun. Thank you VictoriaD 👏🙏👏🙏👏 W5 Visit Belfast Association for Science and Discovery Centres

Farewell vibrant, thoughtful, uplifting & emotion-full #Museums2023! Association for Science and Discovery Centres joined you & felt welcome and connected. Highlight final session chaired by sara wajid with the beautiful words of Vic Congratulations Museums Association, Sharon Heal, The Glasshouse International Centre for Music & all involved.

Blown away by this evening House of Lords hosted by Floella Benjamin. The importance of cultural permanence, representation & collaboration as National Windrush Museum joins Royal Museums Greenwich for a future together. Proud of the (tiny) role we played in this matrix of brilliant people & places

This was great! Thank you (old handle) Armagh Observatory & Planetarium Catalyst SDC Eureka! Museum Glasgow Science Centre Life Science Centre for sharing your wondrously wintry demos and shows! Loved feeling festive with our Association for Science and Discovery Centres community 🤩. Can you guess what Elin Roberts is doing here and how it ties with Santa!?

Celebrating #NationalSpaceDay with our space science project #OurWorldFromSpace currently running across 22 #ScienceCentres and #ScienceMuseums around the UK youtu.be/71aSY8a74Gs?si… Funded by UK Space Agency in partnership with Natural Environment Research Council

Updates, ideas, reconnections & new collaborations - Thankyou Ecsite #Ecsite2024 🤝Sad to leave - but not too long to wait before our European colleagues come to my home city of Bristol for the November Directors Forum @wethecurious 🙌 #EcsiteDF2024 Association for Science and Discovery Centres