‘Science engagement cannot be separated from fundamental democracy, need to bring humanness back into science’
The HinduA crowd had gathered on the lawns of the quaint campus of National Centre for Biological Sciences. Science Ceilidh is a social enterprise that uses traditional Scottish dance and music for science communication, thereby aiming to support STEM, creativity, research and wellbeing in communities. So, whilst I was working in science festivals noticing that everyone there was already interested in science, I wondered if it wouldn’t be amazing to bring the spirit of participation to it like in Ceilidh’s. We’re not saying that all research has to be like this, but for us, this is an interesting way of getting communities who are not already involved in science, involved on a very fundamental level. In the UK, one survey suggested that only 24% of the population feels like they’re connected to science or are actively interested in science.
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