We’ve been awarded a Sustaining Excellence grant. The Wellcome Trust are providing us with £550,000 over the next five years to carry on growing I’m a Scientist and I’m an Engineer in the UK & Ireland and to help us make the project fully sustainable. What does it mean? It means Read more…
We’re expanding and we need someone to help us keep all our ducks in a line. The job involves a mixture of bookkeeping, project and office management. You’d be helping the team run our international portfolio of online science engagement projects from our central Bath offices. We’ve a lot of clients Read more…
Later this year Tim Peake is due to travel to the International Space Station. It’s the first time the UK has sent someone into space. It’s pretty damn exciting. It’s a major opportunity for engaging people with STEM and space in general. At GM Towers we’ve often discussed how to Read more…
I think it is fair to say that Capita have had some issues with PR. Whether it is being called C(r)apita or like when a friend joined them recently it was widely talked about going to “the dark side“. You would have thought that they might try to be a Read more…
Ever since we established I’m a Scientist here in the UK we looked to expand overseas. The phenomenal success we’ve had in the UK has however kept our attention here, with a few notable exceptions. Kristin Alford took the initiative in Australia after interrupting her family holiday to enjoy a Read more…
It’s Christmas time and we’re all off for our traditional lunch and games. The office is going to be closed through to the 5th January 2015. But if you really need to get hold of someone, please just email. We’ll try to respond.
UPDATE: We’ve found someone. He’s accepted and should be starting with us soon. He’ll introduce himself very soon. Do you want to help run the best science engagement project in the world? We’re looking for someone to join the Gallomanor team full-time at our lovely office in the centre of Read more…
3 years and 11 months ago I wrote this post advertising for an Project Executive to join the team. A certain Rosie Schultz answered the advert, and one telephone interview later she joined Gallomanor and the I’m a Scientist team on January 4th 2011. In those years we’ve seen a transformation Read more…
Yes! Running a business is not like Chess. There is a temptation to look a long way into the future and make detailed plans for achieving your ambition. But the reality is that it is more like Backgammon. Random events occur and the important thing is to have your pieces Read more…
It’s the little details that matter. I was speaking last week with some european colleagues. The conversation turned to FameLab. And ScienceSlam. And the similarities between them. Short talks, public vote vs judge-led decision. But the piece of genius from ScienceSlam is that it is NOT one person one vote, Read more…