Funding: The Physiological Society's Public Engagement Grant Scheme.

The Physiological Society is launching a new grant scheme to support public engagement:

A total of £5000 is available to both Society members and non-members to engage with public audiences on a topic that relates to physiology. We hope the projects funded through this scheme will help meet The Society’s aims of highlighting the contribution of physiology to medicine and society, and increasing recognition of its relevance to public audiences. We want to support projects that engage with these public audiences in a manner that benefits both the audience, physiologists and the project, and are interested to see evaluation of how and why this has been achieved.

The Society is keen to support collaborations between expert science communicators, facilitators of public engagement, and our members with this grant scheme, and sponsor “best practice” public engagement. We have previously supported public engagement projects through ad-hoc grants, most recently Bright Club: Bodies; I’m A Scientist March 2012 Sports Zone; and Glasgow Science Centre: Bodyworks.

For further information and to apply for a Public engagement grant, visit our website: www.physoc.org/public-engagement-grants. For queries or for help to develop project ideas, contact Louise Crane, Outreach Manager: lcrane@physoc.org

Applications are invited now. The deadline for applications is 29 February 2012.