The Festival of Science

30th June 2023

Fact vs Fiction

Welcome!

Welcome to Collyer's Festival of Science 2023! Formerly the Science Careers Day, the Festival brings together speakers who have been where you are and now work in many diverse field in STEM. We hope that what they have to say inspires you as you think about your future.

The internet gives us a wealth of information right at our fingertips, spanning generations and cultures alike. News travels fast, and faster now that we are all so connected, but technology, for all its benefits, comes with costs to society.

We leave a trail of information about ourselves every time we engage online, posing questions for our right to privacy. The internet is full of incomplete, questionable or even blatantly wrong information which is almost impossible to spot.

This year, we are inviting you to join us in critically engaging with the world around you. Explore the biases embedded in the technology you use every day. Ask all the questions. Decide what's fake news, what's irrefutable truth, and what's the difference between them. We are delighted, therefore, to introduce this years' keynote theme of Fact vs Fiction.

Read on for more details!

Fact vs Fiction

Stephanie Hare

KEYNOTE:

RESEARCHER, BROADCASTER & AUTHOR

"Stephanie Hare is a researcher, broadcaster and author focused on technology, politics and history. Selected for the BBC Expert Women programme and the Foreign Policy Interrupted fellowship, she contributes frequently to radio and television and has published in the Financial Times, The Washington Post, the Guardian/Observer, the Harvard Business Review, and WIRED. Previously she worked at Accenture, Palantir, and Oxford Analytica and held the Alistair Horne Visiting Fellowship at St Antony’s College, Oxford. She earned a PhD and MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a BA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, including a year at the Université de la Sorbonne (Paris IV)."