Seed Grants 2001
Copus received 83 applications for Copus Seed Grants in 2001. We
made 43 awards, totalling £104,983.
Please note that the funding priorities that these projects
were asssessed against differs from the funding priorities for subsequent
and current Copus Grant Schemes.
- Ms Wendy Jackson
Bury LEA
for Sci-Fest Northwest - Celebrating Science
- An inter-LEA activity day for 120 year 9 pupils from across
the Northwest. The team activites planned address a range of skills
and all three sessions involve communication skills.
- Dr Anita Shaw
Techniquest
for Submarine Safari
- We will develop and deliver an interactive presentation in our
inflatable planetarium for children aged up to 7 on the living
things they will find beside and under the sea.
- Mrs Irene Geoghegan
Scottish Crop Research Institute
for Berry, Berry Good for You!
- The project will illustrate the importance of eating fruit every
day for better health, and provide specific information about
why and how to include more fruit into daily eating patterns.
- Mr Ian Simmons
Inspire
for INSPIRE Show Workshops
- To complement INSPIRE's programme of science shows we intend
to develop a series of workshops linked to them which allow children
to explore for themselves the ideas introduces in the shows.
- Ms Kathryn Gardiner
James Watt College
for Watery Tales of Nymphs and Snails
- Many children in Inverclyde don't have access to gardens and
their interaction with wildlife is limited. Pond surveys involving
children, parents, rangers and academics will provide interaction,
science and fun.
- Dr Nikil Kapur
University of Leeds
for Mechanical Engineering For Life
- To promote mechanical engineering as a subject of tremendous
relevance to everyday life through case studies based on objects
that are familiar and perceived to improve our quality of life.
For further information, see the Mechanical
Engineering in our lives website.
- Dr Arlene Hunter
The Open University in Ireland
for Opening Science For You
- This will be a series of four linked afternoon school and evening
public presentations in venues of scientific interest in Northern
Ireland (provisionally Armagh, Ballymena, Enniskillen and Londonderry).
- Miss Jenifer Pearce
Brooklands Museum
for The Cosworth Concept Zone
- A multi-sensory activity zone, giving visitors a tactile and
interactive insight into motorsport design. Visitors can explore
basic and more complex aspects of Formula 1 through hands-on exhibits
and discussion-provoking panals.
- Mrs Christine McLennan
CAT
for Bringing Food Back Home
- Utilising theatre in education and hands-on science workshops
"Bringing food back home" will promote public understanding of
the science behind contemporary food issues, highlighting accessible
and realistic positive solutions.
- Mrs Nancy Leather
for A Stroll Along the Prom
- CATALYST MUSEUM OF THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY, WIDNES will be a real
part of the Queens Golden Jubilee Community Celebration, the Museum
is part of the Promenade area of West Bank.
- Ms Lucy Cape
Cheltenham Borough Council
for Massive Young People's Project
- Massive promotes an informative, entertaining, educational and
creative experience for young people aged between 11 and 16 by
advancing their active participation in the performing arts, sporting
activities and science.
- Sister Marie Ann Bear
St Joseph's R.C. First School
for Science week for a first school
- A week during which all the school's 8 classes will be involved
in science activities for the week.
- Mr Adrian Waddington
Inst. of Mechanical Engineers
for Engineer for a Day
- This innovative project brings practising engineers and primary
school children together within an interactive teaching environment
to positively promote the role of science and technology plays
in modern society.
- Ms Ann Nicol
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
for Feeling Good
- Starting with the target audiences of people with disabilities
and non-visiting local families, this project will create a new
hands-on natural history temporary exhibition in the Oxford University
Museum of Natural History. This project is featured in the Copus
Grants Good Practice in Science Communication document, Reaching
Under-represented Audiences.
- Dr Roger Doonan
University of Bournemouth
for GRASS: Garden Research for Archaeological Site Survey
- GRASS: A collective science project that creates and disseminates
knowledge relating to the prehistory of suburban enviroments by
undertaking archaeological survey using school children to collect
data from their own gardens.
- Miss Valerie Mellon
for SCIENCE SUSSED! Student television show.
- Science Sussed is a new monthly television show, produced entirely
by Cambridge University Students and broadcast on a local cable
community television station to 300,000 viewers.
- Ms Pamela Smith
University of Birmingham
for The Gardener's Arms
- 'The Gardener's Arms' project invites people to join botanic
garden staff at the bar for tall tales about the plant world and
explains why they are true!
- Mr Richard Mankiewicz
for A Golden Jubilee of Science
- 2002 is both Science Year and the Golden Jubilee. The project
will celebrate both by raising awareness of the scientific and
technological changes over the last 50 years through art.
- Mr Allan Paterson
Magna Science Adventure Centre
for Soap Box Science
- Science Demonstrations/'Busking' at the Meadowhall Shopping
Centre, Sheffield.
- Dr John-Paul Sumner
Glasgow Science Centre
for Meet the Scientist
- The aim of the project is to facilitate the meeting of scientists
doing interesting things and the general public using the theatres
and laboratories of the Glasgow Science Centre.
- Mr Keith Bonnick
The Cuming Museum
for The Archaeology Pod
- To design and construct a low tech interactive installation/exhibit
as part of an exhibition (The past "Beneath Our feet"). The exhibition
will explore the history of Southwark using archaeological finds
from the Cuming Museum of London.
- Dr Frank Burnet
UWE
for Science in the Fast lane
- Motorway service areas will be used to demonstrate science tricks
that can be performed on car journeys. Quiz sheets will be distributed
that point up science issues associated with motorways. For further
information, see the Graphic
Science, UWE website.
- Mr Stephen Ashworth
University of East Anglia
for Looking Glass Lab.
- Looking Glass Laboratory will use novel teaching methods and
custum built equipment to enable the blind and visually impaired
to imagine the visible - chirality in molecules.
- Ms Jacqueline Donachie
for People with Myotonic Dystrophy
- A multiple editioned artwork that aims to visualise the wide
range of people whose lives are affected in some way by the inherited
genetic condition Myotonic Dystrophy.
- Mrs Hazel Cartledge
Soho House Museum
for Soho Science Club
- It will be a Saturday science workshop meeting once per month
for local young people aged between 7-11 years from disadvantaged
socially excluded backgrounds, residing in the Soho ward of Birmingham.
- Ms Dawn Sanders
Chelsea Physic Garden
for Midsummer Biodiversity Jamboree
- To give primary and secondary children the chance to study organisms
close up with scientists who are specialists in that field. To
offer a unique and personal window into the study of biodiversity.
- Ms Sarah Rusholme
National Space Centre
for Myths, Mummies and Pyramids (originally Mummy! Look at
the Stars!)
- Development and delivery of a schools and general public portable
planetarium show, along with complementary hands-on workshops
and extension materials using the links between Ancient Egyptian
legends, beliefs and engineering. For further information, including
a freely downloadable resource pack, see the Myths,
Mummies and Pyramids entry in the BT Stardome section of the
website.
- Mr Desmond Baker
Festival of Science and Innovation
for Festival SciBar and Cafe Scientifique Events
- We will organise two major SciBar and Cafe Scientifique events
as part of the Festival of Science and Innovation in October 2002.
- Ms Jennie Beale
Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens
for The Winter Gardens Medicine Chest
- The Winter Gardens Medicine Chest and Trail leaflet will help
visitors to the Museum and Winter Gardens discover the medicinal
wonders of plants using their senses and hands on exploration.
- Ms Gillian Mason
Hancock Museum
for Book Worms
- To investigate invertebrates and the world of creepy crawlies
through the use of fictional stories, storytelling, role-play
and live creatures, bringing together science and literacy.
- Mr Nick Parsons
Heeley City Farm
for Discovering the science in energy
- A demonstration and exploratory project using workshops and
hands-on models to bring science of energy to children and adults
in the community.
- Dr Liz Cook
Scottish Association for Marine Science
for Spikey and Friends on Tour
- Liz Cook will give interactive, highly visual talks to primary
and secondary school pupils in Argyll and Bute about marine science,
assisted by two giant model sea creatures - 'Spikey' and 'Squirt'.
- Mr Roger Tovey
Lifelong Learning Service
for Neath Port Talbot Sci-Tech Tour
- A roadshow will tour around Neath Port Talbot County Borough
bringing hands-on, challenging and inventive scientific conundrums
for all ages and abilities.
- Mrs Gail Bromley
Royal Botanic Gardens
for The Redwood Educational Grove
- To develop the RBG, Kew Redwood Grove, a natural habitat, to
include elements of hard landscape, handling artefacts and interpretation;
providing a teaching aid for aspects of biodiversity and sustainable
development.
- Miss Rebecca Cheney
Royal Engineers Museum
for The Royal Engineers bridge building competition
- An inter-school competition where teams from across the South
East compete to build model bridges which span a set distance
and hold a set weight.
- Miss Charlotte Derry
Central Library
for Out on Site: Archaeology digs Science!
- OUT ON SITE will tour Redbridge bringing archaeological science
to life! People of all ages and abilities will have the opportunity
to dig, experiment, scrape and explore archaeology and conservation!
- Ms Sally Hampson
for Bower Birds: Nature's Artists
- Following research in Australia, artist Sally Hampson will create
the intricate bowers and displays of bower birds. Visitors will
be encouraged to contemplate this extraordinary behaviour from
scientific and artistic viewpoints. For further information see
the Bower
Birds page of the Arts Catalyst website.
- Ms Sarah Angliss
for Instant Sound Show (just add presenter)
- The entire multimedia element of a science of sound demo, on
a CD ROM. Anyone with a PC, soundcard and speakers can use it
to present their own entertaining, inspirational show.
- Mrs Alexa Barrow
Rural Life Centre
for Do you measure up?
- To introduce a long-term schools topic of weights and measurement
using the many historic measuring systems preserved within the
museum.
- Mrs Marianne Overton
for That's Life! Learning science through theatre.
- Four two-day theatre workshops held in National Science Week
and National Health Week at two venues; Lincoln University and
a rural village hall, both involving children and professionals.
- Mr Simon Hayhow
Fleetwood Museum
for Time Detectives
- A programme of eleven interactive presentations or workshops
explaining some of the scientific techniques used to uncover the
past. These will focus on scientific developments within geological
and archaeological science.
- Mr David Smith
Armthorpe School
for The Armthorpe Science Centre
- To set-up and run a centre of hands-on science exhibits accessible
to the local community to demonstrate the interest, value and
excitement in all aspects of Physics.
- Mrs Rachel Bairsto
Ditchling Museum
for Chemical and Natural Dyes
- To explore the history of dyeing, its importance to Ditchling
and to increase understanding of the processes involved with chemical
and natural dyes by devising a series of workshops.
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