Science Ceilidh

How can lived & living experience support fairer services & stronger mental wealth in Moray? Join @WellbeingMoray & partners on 11 June for a launch of a new interactive data visualisation tool exploring collective voice, human rights & community research tickettailor.com/events/moraywe…

Thank you to everyone involved in the @UKKMbF in Bristol! Great conversations around ethics, trust & more human approaches to sharing knowledge & working together. Our Director Lewis joined the keynote line-up, opening in true Science Ceilidh style with a tune before the talk. 🎻

May Resource of the Month 🎶 For Mental Health Awareness Week, we’re highlighting the Singing Side By Side Toolkit, a free resource supporting more mental health inclusive singing groups & community spaces, full of ideas & insights for facilitators. 📥singingsidebyside.co.uk/toolkit

(3/3) Our Director Lewis was involved in supporting DiverSci Community of Practices, helping bring people together across science engagement & community work to share ideas & challenge traditional ways of working Lewis’s interview: wissenschaftskommunikation.de/collective-act… #autismacceptancemonth

(1/3) As Autism Acceptance Month comes to a close, we wanted to share a valuable resource and network we’ve been lucky enough to support: DiverSci. If you’re interested in inclusive science engagement and equity in learning spaces, we recommend signing up: diversci.eu

(2/3) Previous DiverSci discussions have explored co-producing with autistic communities & simple but meaningful changes that can make events & spaces more accessible, like clearly explaining what to expect beforehand &making participation more flexible. youtube.com/watch?v=kPrmJs…

Happy International Dance Day! 💃 Yesterday, our Director Lewis joined Dancing Across Disciplines at @DurhamImh. Lewis shared his talk “Science Ceilidh: Culturally Engaged Research to Knowledge Systems Change” and in true Science Ceilidh style, also got folk up for a dance!

Keen to move & be moved? On Tuesday, our Director Lewis is speaking at Dancing Across Disciplines, hosted by @DurhamImh at @durham_uni. Lewis will present “Science Ceilidh: Culturally Engaged Research to Knowledge Systems Change” 🗓️ 28 April, 10am to 4pm eventbrite.co.uk/e/dancing-acro…

How can we work together to make higher education more equitable for communities? Join us tomorrow & find out! Our monthly Community of Practice (online) is on Tues at 2pm - a space to connect & learn from community-led research across Scotland. Sign up: communityknowledgematters.com

(2/2) A little #ThrowbackThursday moment…Lewis was the winner of the FameLab Regional Heat in Edinburgh in 2012, so has come full circle! Get tickets for @EdSciFest here: edinburghscience.co.uk/event/famelab-…

(1/2) Can you explain a big scientific idea in under three minutes? @FameLab UK finalists will be doing exactly that, live on stage in Edinburgh! This Friday our Director Lewis joins Dallas Campbell & Laura McLister as a judge at the FameLab UK Scottish Final, part of @EdSciFest.

(3/3) There’s an interesting mix of formats, including World Café conversations, hands-on creative sessions & reflections from organisations embedding knowledge mobilisation in practice. Explore funding options to join the UK Knowledge Mobilisation Forum: knowledgemobilisation.net/uk-kmb-forum-2…

(1/3) What are you curious about when it comes to mobilising knowledge? Our director Lewis is excited to be reflecting on curiosity in our work at Science Ceilidh and Community Knowledge Matters at his keynote at the 2026 UK Knowledge Mobilisation Forum later this month!

(2/3) The full UK KMB programme is now live, with sessions spanning everything from the ethics of knowledge mobilisation and design-led approaches to creative evaluation and storytelling. Thinking of attending? View the programme: knowledgemobilisation.net/uk-kmb-forum-2…

(3/3) Hear directly from The Grab Trust (@LORI_GRAB) team in our conversation station recording: tinyurl.com/grabtrustrecor… Read the case study: tinyurl.com/casestudyoban

April's #PartnershipOfTheMonth We’re highlighting a community-researcher partnership from our Highlands & Islands Climate Change Community Grants programme. In Oban, @LORI_GRAB Trust explored how to reduce single-use cup waste.

(2/3) What started with hands-on experience like beach cleaning grew into a project with real impact, starting with testing ideas, going on to co-writing an academic paper and informing a national scheme. @LORI_GRAB #aprilpartnershipofthemonth

March #ResourceoftheMonth: @EqualAdventure Conversation Station This session explored how communities are developing inclusive green & blue health opportunities with disabled people in the North of Scotland. Watch the recording: communityknowledgematters.com/conversation-s…

It was great to visit Garelochhead Support Trust @TrustStation & hear about their veteran peer-led research project! Funded by @TheIdeasFund & @NCRHC_, it’s a strong example of how peer research leads to deeper insights into rural veteran wellbeing & real change in practice.

Interested in community-led research and health & social care in rural & island Scotland? Join us this Thursday at 11am (online) for our Community of Practice! Sign up to the network to receive your invite: communityknowledgematters.com Photo: Alexander Williamson