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Packed Lunch on skin
SEM of meshed skin graft over a burn. Packed Lunch is back! Our regular series of lunchtime talks returned last week with a fascinating encounter with Dr Isabel Jones, a surgeon in the Burns Unit at...
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Packed Lunch with the Royal Society Book Prize winner
Three mitochondria surrounded by cytoplasm Last week, biochemist Nick Lane won the Royal Society Prize for Science Books for his book, Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution. As it...
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From the Decontamination Unit at Glastonbury
Music lovers are gathering this weekend for one of the biggest events in the music festival calendar: Glastonbury. This year the Wellcome Trust is supporting a special event at Glastonbury as part of...
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An engaging pair of Fellows
Dr Richard Barnett (left) and Dr Kevin Fong, Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellows Dr Kevin Fong and Dr Richard Barnett both trained as doctors at UCL medical school and they are both now Wellcome Trust...
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Engaging Fellows: Kevin Fong
Dr Kevin Fong The Wellcome Trust’s first ever Engagement Fellows came into the Trust a couple of weeks ago to record a conversation about their different experiences in engaging the public with...
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Engaging Fellows: Richard Barnett
Dr Richard Barnett The Wellcome Trust’s first ever Engagement Fellows came into the Trust a couple of weeks ago to record a conversation about their different experiences in engaging the public with...
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Simply science: the Gurdon at 21
Last week, I gatecrashed a party at the Wellcome Trust / Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute in Cambridge. To celebrate the institute’s 21st anniversary, many of its current and former staff had...
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Piano plague in D minor
Why would 19th-century doctors want to ban piano lessons for girls? Did they truly believe that learning to play music could cause sexual and neurotic disorders? Or were there sociological reasons for...
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Listen in: Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize 2012
From left: Cassie Barton, Catherine Hess and Adam Kucharski Canapés, celebrities, speeches and sparkling wine: the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize 2012 was awarded on Wednesday evening, at an...
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Nasty noises and neuroscience
Chalk on a blackboard? A knife on glass? Even the thought of some of these sounds makes people squirm. In our office the topic sparked an instant discussion, everyone has an opinion as to what sounds...
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Listen in: Wellcome Trust Book Prize 2012
The literary elite joined us for a celebration of medicine in literature on Wednesday evening, for the ceremony to award the 2012 Wellcome Trust Book Prize. A combination of canapés, sparkling wine and...
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Engaging us with science: Q&A with Erinma Ochu
I met Dr Erinma Ochu – public engagement specialist, writer and creative producer – to find out more about her new position as one of two new Engagement Fellows at the Wellcome Trust, the other being...
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December 2012 Public Engagement Events
Shock Head Soul – the DVD is released this month The country is being swept by snow, sleigh bells and seasonal promotions. The only thing missing from the festive frivolities is a sprinkling of...
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Around the world in 80 days – Part 5: Thailand
Over the course of four months, Barry Gibb visited our major overseas programmes in Africa and Asia to make a film about Wellcome Collection’s Art and Global Health project. In the latest of his diary...
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Sparking debate about HIV among South African commuters
How can you get locals debating the issues around HIV in a region with the highest rate of HIV infection in the world? The answer is CDs, music, and catching them during the most mundane part of their...
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