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.
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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. ​
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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.
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Read on for more details!
Fact vs Fiction
Speakers
KEYNOTE
Stephanie Hare
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)."
APPLIED SCIENCE
Alessandro Mantell (Alternative careers to pharmaceuticals)
Dr. Elliot Lilley (Health economics)
Florian Yeates (Animal research & ethics)
Ian Dickinson (Careers in spectonomy)
BIOLOGY
Rebecca Owen (Physiotherapy careers)
Callum Thomas (Beating biting bugs: controlling insects that spread disease)
Dr. Corina Ciocan (Why study biosciences and Brighton?)
Dr Andrew Crump (Do lobsters have feelings?)
CHEMISTRY
Jon Wilden (Studying chemistry degrees at university)
Judy Hayler (Opportunities in modern research medicine)
Russell Minns (Making molecular movies)
Ben Hicklin (Using chemistry to clean up ground contamination in the construction industry)
ECONOMICS
Alice Hobday (The role of the Bank of England)
Dan Butler (Working as a trainee chartered accountant)
ELECTRONICS
Aidan Crockford (Apprenticeships at Thales)
Dr. John Easton (Electronics and electrical engineering at university)
Rallou Chatzimichail (Women in STEM and Green Energy)
Engineering
Stuart Algar (The role of the Civil Aviation Authority)
Phil North (Reliability and it's impact on the design process)
Professor Simeon Keates (Robot Wars: the whole story)
Holly Holder (Dr Who: a guide to higher research and PhDs)
E.SCI & GEOLOGY - ACADEMIC
Professor Andy Cundy (Green growth and managing the human footprint)
Lucas Owers (From Collyer's to becoming an Exploration Geologist)
Dean Bullen (Geosciences at university and their importance in society)
Ian Watkinson (Calling students in Physical Geography and Earth Sciences)
E.SCI & GEOLOGY - VOCATIONAL
Laura Gossett (Conservation or con?)
Dominic Robeson (My career with Biffa)
The Environmental Agency (The apprenciteship scheme and other career routes)
Atkins Global (Career opportunities at an engineering company)
MATHEMATICS
Mike Long & Fay Maddock (Mathematics and health economics)
James Van Yperen (Research in mathematics)
Darren St. Pierre (What does a financial advisor do?)
Dominic Blythe (Auditing in real life)
PHYSICS
Tala Clark (What it is like being a physics students at university)
Dr. Laura Blackburn (What it is like being a quantum physicist)
Dr. Darren Baskill (Being a astrophysicist and careers for physics students)
PRODUCT DESIGN
Bruce Valler
Simon Lee (Civil engineering and surveying)
Charlie Beckwith (My experiences as an architectural apprentice)
PSYCHOLOGY
Fiona Wallace (Moving forward from taking a psychology degree)
Dr. Isabelle Akin-Ojo (A day in the life of a consultant psychiatrist)
Dr. Ali Bennettes (Careers in clinical psychology)
Fayre Exhibitors
