Staff from across the University share their expertise in the Canterbury Festival’s Science Strand - a series of events that explore science in the context of the arts in venues around the city until 4 November.
Cellular Dynamics (20 October, 19.30) – a collaboration between Dr Dan Lloyd of the School of Biosciences and Dan Harding, Deputy Director of University Music, merges captivating imagery from cutting-edge biological research with live musical performance to spectacular effect in the Colyer-Fergusson Concert Hall.
In The Art of Dying Well (23 October, 20.00, Canterbury Cathedral Lodge) Stella Bolaki, of the School of English will appear alongside experts from the charity Pilgrims Hospices to discuss the topic of our inevitable own mortality in a warm, light-hearted debate on this easily-ignored topic.
With guidance from Dr Tasos Tsaousis and Dr Dan Lloyd, families will have the opportunity to use hands-on forensic laboratory techniques in Who Killed Justin Bieber? (28 October, 14.00, Stacey Building, University of Kent).
And finally, scientists Dr Alessia Buscaino, Professor Darren Griffin, Dr Neil Kad and Dr Gary Robinson – alongside Professor Charlotte Sleigh of the School of History – explore their scientific passions with poets in the science-poetry slam (an oral poetry competition) Experimental Words (1 November, 20.00, Canterbury Cathedral Lodge).
The University’s School of Biosciences staff and students’ event Beer Lab @ The Foundry , which saw Canterbury microbrewers mixed beer tasting with an exploration of how yeast is used in biological research to investigate health and disease, provided a sell-out launch on 17 October.