Current projects
Aurora Art: This workshop engages primary age students (ideally year 5 or 6) and young families with UoS aurora research through the AuroraZoo project by the Solar Environment Physics (SEP) group. Building on our experience of using language and the arts in combination with science research subjects thiswill focus more on storytelling. The children’s fiction book ‘Seren and the Polar Bear Cub’ and workshops will showcase the story of the scientist working to unravel the mysteries of the aurora’s shapes and movement. Students will also understand how both the humans and polar bears who live in Svalbard are affected by climate change and how research into the aurora can be used to better understand climate change.
Black Hole poetry: a cross-disciplinary project merging black hole research from the University of Southampton astronomy group and poetry aimed at year 5 students.
‘Learning about the aurora’: this is a repeat intervention program focused on year 8 students at local widening participation schools.
Past Projects
SotonAstroArt: this project worked with emerging artists to engage the public with Supernova group research via artwork using photographic plates of the whole cosmos.
