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Scottish Government funding award for Science Engagement

Issued: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:05:00 BST

Science and Creativity - an exploration through art.

The Science and Technology Centres in the Faculty of Education have won an award of £11,700 from Scottish Government's Science Engagement Scheme. In announcing the awards Fiona Hyslop said: "The science engagement scheme is designed to help make science more accessible to the people of Scotland, complement more formal learning for science and inspire more Scots, particularly our young people, to take an active scientific interest in the world in which they live".

The project is a collaboration with Paragon Music and Glasgow Science Centre and led by Dr Jane Magill of the Robert Clark Technology and Interdisciplinary STEM Education Centres in the Faculty of Education at Glasgow University.

Creativity is about doing and thinking about things in new or different ways and yet science is not seen as a creative discipline, rather one that is dull and difficult. We will develop interactive workshops and discussion events to explore creativity in science with senior pupils at secondary school. In doing so we will

  • use activities in the creative arts to explore and reveal creativity in science
  • enable pupils working in multidisciplinary groups to discover creativity in science and to develop their own creative abilities
  • provide an opportunity for pupils to work with inspiring young role models  from both arts and science disciplines
Science and Creativity is part of the Sounds like Science family of projects led by our team of artists and scientists who explore science themes with school and community groups.  Science and Creativity will build on the successful work of A Climate for Arts in which 80 pupils from primary 7 developed and staged a dramatic performance about climate change. A DVD-rom for the project to support schools and community  groups interested in doing similar work will be available soon.

Both projects have been funded by the Scottish Government, Science Engagement Grants with additional support from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Skills training fund), British Science Association and Glasgow University Science Festival.

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