Award Ceremony at the Natural History Museum London 11.06.14

We were invited to the National co-ordinating centre for public engagement (NCCPE) Engage Competition award ceremony at the Natural History Museum London.

Awards Crowd

Awards Crowd

Only three people per project were allowed to go, otherwise we would have invited more of our research group to come along! The picture below shows Nic, Kate and Ajay by a banner showing our co-researchers in Liverpool.

At Award Ceremony

At Award Ceremony

At the ceremony we watched videos from all the finalists projects in the final including Sensory Objects. You can watch the videos here

Sensory Objects were runners up in the Art Design and Culture Award. We were really pleased to be included amongst such great projects. The picture below shows our page in the finalist booklet and a crystal paper weight awarded to all finalists.

Sensory Objects Runnerup Page

Sensory Objects Runnerup Page

After the ceremony we were given afternoon tea see picture below, which we enjoyed very much!

Afternoon tea

Afternoon tea

After the ceremony we were invited to take part in Universities Week Late at the Natural History Museum part of Universities Week, an action-packed evening to explore how research impacts everyday lives. We took part in the Researchers Cafe we had a menu of questions about our research that the public could talk to us about.

These were our questions: How important is it to be able to experience more than our sense of sight in museums?  Which senses trigger your emotions most? How do multisensory experiences improve museum experiences?

We made sure we took some props including Sians Moot and littleBits go LARGE to help our discussion. The picture below shows Nic and Ajay ready at the table.

Nic and Ajay ready to discuss at the Researchers Cafe

Nic and Ajay ready to discuss at the Researchers Cafe

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