Outreach

Professor Saiful Islam was invited to give a talk at Professor Brian Cox and Robin Ince’s Compendium for Reason show, a charity event of science, music & comedy taking place in Royal Albert Hall in London on Nov 23rd. See more here (link).

Professor Saiful Islam gave a talk on Li-ion battery materials at STFC Batteries Annual Meeting at Royal Institution in London on Nov 18th.

Professor Saiful Islam was invited by Education In Action to give a talk at Chemistry in Action in London on Nov 14th. He spoke to 800+ school students about green energy materials using 3D glasses! See more here (link).

Between 22 and 24 July 2022 (The NEC, Birmingham) we have attended Big Bang Fair with our stand. Read more here (link).

Guinness World Record Lemon Battery – Saiful Islam and RSC – Short Youtube video released by Guinness World Record Youtube channel (link)

Birmingham has been producing ‘Behind the Lab Specs’ Youtube videos for the Slater Group – Birmingham (link)

Birmingham researchers ran a stand at the Royal Institution’s COP26 event: the London Schools’ Climate Kick-Start. – London

Birmingham researchers ran a ‘meet the expert’ stand on Li ion batteries at the Thinktank Museum – Birmingham

Birmingham researchers took part in a joint collaboration with Faraday Institution projects ReliB and Nextrode, interviewing industry (Cornish Lithium, Echion Tech, JCB, Ilika) for an outreach video series highlighting roles in the battery industry

PhD student Lizzie Driscoll was featured in the local newspaper (Express & Star) for her outreach work during Science Week- South Staffordshire (link)

Discover magazine feature an article on using Jenga to explain Li ion batteries in an issue over the summer, featuring work by PhD student Lizzie Driscoll – Birmingham (link)

CATMAT team develop outreach experiment boxes for the virtual CoCoMAD20 festival – Birmingham (link)