Careers in STEM: Polymers Event
- Time:
- 09:00 - 17:00
- Date:
- 18 July 2014
- Venue:
- LifeLab Level D, Room LD150 South Lab and Path Block Southampton General Hospital SO16 6YD and Exxon Mobil Fawley Southampton SO45 3NP
For more information regarding this event, please telephone Mathematics and Science Learning Centre on 023 8059 8810 or email mslc@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
This professional development day, funded by The Horners’ Company Educational Trust and ExxonMobil, will be held at the new LifeLab educational facility at Southampton General Hospital and on-site at the Fawley Refinery, Southampton, and complements the Polymer Study Tour programme for 2014.
Polymer science has given us products that are so useful and so integral to the modern world that it is difficult to imagine life without them. Polymer science is also crucial for solving many of the globe’s most pressing problems, from making energy production more sustainable, producing medical devices, and making a new class of environmentally-friendly consumer products. Participants will learn about the science of modern polymer processes, engage with “hands-on” practical resources and explore aspects of careers in the polymer industries that will attract and engage their students.
Thanks to generous funding by The Horners’ Company Educational Trust and Exxon Mobil and the SLC impact award, the fee for this course will be covered (schools will be invoiced, but able to claim back the fee from MSLC).
This exciting day will begin at the LifeLab educational facility at Southampton General Hospital where participants will alternate between two workshops:
- practical work and polymers - how to engage students in the classroom
- workshop on the science of modern polymer processes, including processes that will be addressed during the afternoon at Fawley
Participants will then be transported to Fawley by coach for lunch and networking with ExxonMobil STEM ambassadors from the plant. The afternoon will involve an accompanied coach tour of the ExxonMobil plant and visit to the polymer processing facility.
The coach will then transport participants back to the Southampton General Hospital site for the plenary and end of the programme.
Course Fee
: £185 ex VAT per teacher - includes all course materials, lunch and refreshments.
Bursaries
- Science Learning Centre Impact Award: £92.50 - paid following attendance and completion of impact process; £92.50 bursary from ExxonMobil.
The course is therefore free to attend.
Contact details below for further information and to book a place.
Speaker information
David Read and John Coad,David Read is Head of Education in Chemistry at University of Southampton. David has a background in teaching at secondary and post-16, has worked on transition to university and runs the Foundation degree at Southampton. John Coad is an independent consultant who has worked for ten years with MSLC. John has a background in teaching, advisory work and as Education manager at Pfizer, Kent.