Past events
2018
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Public engagement activity: Superbugs at the Science Museum Lates 25 April 2018 i-sense researchers from UCL and Imperial College London joined the superbugs themed Science Museum Lates. The exhibit, titled ‘The Ultimate Superbugs Race,’ was a collaboration between i-sense and students from the UCL Institute of Archaeology. |
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Public engagment: Digital Health Technology Show 13 - 14 March 2018 i-sense members joined the Digital Health Technology Show at the ExCel Centre in London. The show is estimated to have attracted more than 4,000 people over the two days and gave us the opportunity to speak to some really engaged people, from those interested in the potential translation of our technologies, to students from various universities across the UK. |
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Public engagement: EPSRC Science for a Successful Nation 21 February 2018 The EPSRC held a showcase at the Royal Society in London to promote the importance for EPSRC investments, in the context of UK prosperity. A number of EPSRC funded projects were selected to showcase their work as part of the visual backdrop to the event that also included panel discussions and debate. The space was broken up into four Prosperity Outcomes and i-sense members held a small booth as part of the ‘healthy nation’ outcome to showcase the tools and digital technologies being developed to identify and prevent outbreaks of infectious disease, much earlier than ever before. |
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Education Alliance workshop: Data visualisation masterclass 2 February 2018 This data visualisation workshop usually runs as part of the Guardian Masterclasses and was adapted to fit the i-sense team. It provided the opportunity for all i-sense members to think about ways to present their data in an interesting, aesthetically appealing way, that is easy for their audience to understand. |
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Education Alliance workshop: Designing trials for diagnostic test accuracy 1 February 2018 The workshop was an interactive day that included examples and active participation for attendees to complete exercises in small groups. The focus of the workshop was to study the design and role of diagnostic tests and how they can be evaluated, study sample size, assess potential sources of bias and applicability, and understand how to interpret and communicate results of diagnostic test accuracy. |
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19 January 2018 i-sense members met at the 5G Innovation Centre in the University of Surrey to discuss and share outputs that have been created as part of i-sense EPSRC IRC, the role that 5G technologies play in the ecosystem, and how they intersect with a range of industry needs. |
2017
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Education Alliance workshop: Communication and presentation skills workshop 16 November 2017 i-sense members attended a full day workshop to help improve their communication and presentation skills. The workshop was facilitated by Mortal Fools in collaboration with Northern Stage at Newcastle University. The workshop was about learning by doing, practising and observing others. |
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Public engagement event: New Scientist Live 28 September - 1 October 2017 Researchers from i-sense joined the award winning show, New Scientist Live, as thousands of people visited the ExCel centre in London for a stimulating festival of ideas. Sitting within the technology zone, the i-sense exhibit attracted a range of participants, from those excited to hear about our research into mobile healthcare and diagnostics for infectious diseases, to those wanting to be tested for the i-sense ‘Science Bug’. |
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Flagship 1 workshop: system needs for diagnostics in global health emergencies 1 September 2017 i-sense members met at the 5G Innovation Centre in the University of Surrey to discuss and share outputs that have been created as part of i-sense EPSRC IRC, the role that 5G technologies play in the ecosystem, and how they intersect with a range of industry needs. |
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28 - 29 June 2017 The three EPSRC funded Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC) came together in Bath for the Future of Healthcare Technology conference. As the first of its kind, the conference focused on the latest developments in healthcare technologies, central to the core theme of each research group. |
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Public engagement: Llama Outbreak, Courtyard Festival 29 May 2017 Researchers from the i-sense Llama Outbreak Control Unit were back again this year at Courtyard in Kings Cross, Green Man’s Welsh beer and cider festival, to track a strange disease spreading across London. |
2016
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Public engagement: Llama Outbreak, Greenman Festival August 2016 i-sense researchers asked festival goers at Greenman Festival to help us contain a mysterious outbreak that is turning people into Llamas! As thousands of people gathered at Einstein's Garden, a unique area of Greenman Festival that brings science to life through art, nature and interactive experiences, they came across a rather unique stall. The Llama Outbreak Control Clinic was set up in response to a public health emergency that had descended upon the festival- a strange virus that was turning people into Llamas! |
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Flagship 1 workshop: Preparing a global health response 7 June 2016 Professor Rosanna Peeling and Dr Penny Wilson from Innovate UK recently led an interactive workshop on open platform technologies and global health regulations. i-sense students and researchers were challenged to come up with solutions to three central issues for academics working within industry, that could impact the development of open platform technology. |
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Flagship 1 workshop: Zika diagnostics 25 March 2016 In the wake of WHO declaring Zika as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 1st Feb 2016, Professor Rosanna Peeling ran a workshop with leading experts from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to explore the diagnostic needs for Zika and how i-sense researchers might respond to a global health emergency. |
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Public engagement: The Rosalind Franklin Appathon 23 February 2016 Through the Rosalind Franklin Appathon, we aimed to harness this digital revolution to reach out to a much larger global audience than traditional women’s networking events, and challenge cultural stereotypes. |
2015
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Public engagement: Bug hunters at UCL Spark Festival 7 September 2015 i-sense researchers invited the public to be scientists for a day at our 'Bug Hunters' stall at the 2015 Spark Festival London at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Through fun, hands-on activities, we took visitors on an interactive journey for our hunt for bugs- to detect and identify infectious diseases much earlier than is currently possible. |
2014
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Education Alliance workshop: Fostering our future 25 - 26 November 2014 Based on a theme of enterprise, innovation and commercialisation, i-sense's students and early career researchers met for the first annual Education Alliance Enterprise workshop at Newcastle University. The programme was designed to complement the i-sense research agenda, build generic skills and provide researchers with confidence in their own abilities. |
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Partnership Research Fund workshop: New frontiers in digital influenza surveillance 26 June 2014 Leading experts in the field of big data and mobile health gathered at The Institute of Materials at Carlton House Terrace, London to hear talks and exchange ideas on the latest breakthroughs in digital flu diagnostics. |
