When did you last think about science?
Science comes in all shapes and sizes and affects all aspects of our lives. But for many of us, it’s a mystery.
The S Factor is an exciting new project which South Leeds Community Radio is thrilled to have joined. It offers answers to your science questions, talks by scientists, info about things like climate change, space science and what happens to all your rubbish. The aim is to bring science back into our lives as adults, to make it understandable and fun, and to help us learn more. It’s also to show that women are scientists, too – lots of them.
Over the last 6 months, along with our partners
Manchester
Museum of Science and Industry
Otley Science Festival
Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds
and
The UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology
we’ve had lots of popular free events. Listen now
to our radio programmes, watch the films and look at the pictures to find out
more.
Space Scientist Dr Maggie Aderin visited our studios. Members of local community groups gave us 30 questions to put to Maggie in an
hour-long studio discussion. Listen to the five 10-minute programmes below. Maggie Aderin visits our studios 
Beeston goes to the Otley Science Festival Women from our Creative
Media and Digital Photography
class along with tutor Jan Wells travelled to Otley Science Festival’s
all-day
extravaganza, to take photos and record short interviews with people at
the
event.
Take a look at some of their photographs here. Science comes to Hillside Christmas Fayre This
year the Hillside Christmas Fayre had an added ingredient – science!
Marty
Jopson of BBC1’s The One Show, and co-organiser of the Otley Science
Festival,
came along to demonstrate the science in Christmas Day and how to make
it go
with a BANG – and his demo did just that.
Watch an 8 minute film of the event, which includes local people’s reactions and
comments from two women scientists, here.
Read a report of the
event here. What A Load Of Rubbish!
Manchester
Museum of Science and Industry came to Beeston to perform their play to
over
100 local people. See what happened in our short film here.
Read a report of the event here. Beeston Science Café What’s
your earliest ever memory? And have you ever seen an Eco-Fridge?
Beeston’s
first Science Café included not only a 3-course meal at Delhi-Catessen,
the
restaurant in our building, but talks from two scientists.
Dr Catriona
Morrison
of Leeds University talked about the start of memory for a big study
she’s
doing, and Emily Cummins, business studies student, described her big
invention, the Eco-Fridge, now used throughout Africa.
Watch a short film of the event here
Read a report of the
event here.
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