We need your support to keep going. The best thing about Bright Club Ireland is our community of performers, academics, audience, and other supporters, and we are giving you the chance to be our funding partner for 2021. We’ve lost our main source of funding but we can still keep …
In the Autumn of 2020, Bright Club Ireland, the variety night uniting academic research and comedy, will fund two comedians / performers to develop material related to COVID-19 and the current pandemic, in collaboration with academic researchers working in these areas. Given the urgent relevance that science communication has taken …
This fifth episode of our new podcast You’re Up Next features science communicator, creative producer, and trainer Hana Ayoob, with our host Jessamyn Fairfield. Listen here or read through the transcript below. Jessamyn Fairfield: How we talk about science now is massively different from how it was when I was …
This fourth episode of our new podcast You’re Up Next features comedian, trainer, and event producer Kyle Marian Viterbo, with our host Jessamyn Fairfield. Listen here or read through the transcript below. Jessamyn Fairfield: I am always looking for the connections between things. I like learning a lot about one …
This third episode of our new podcast You’re Up Next features Shane Bergin, a physicist who works in education at University College Dublin and a public engagement expert, with our host Jessamyn Fairfield. Listen here or read through the transcript below. Jessamyn Fairfield: One of the things I love about …
This second episode of our new podcast You’re Up Next features Áine Gallagher, the former creative director of Bright Club, with our host Jessamyn Fairfield. Listen here or read through the transcript below. Jessamyn Fairfield: When I was a kid, I used to practice telling jokes. I loved puns, shaggy …
This first episode of our new podcast You’re Up Next features Steve Cross, who founded Bright Club in the UK, with our host Jessamyn Fairfield. Listen here or read through the transcript below. Jessamyn Fairfield: Sometimes, science can feel like a joke. Experiments don’t work, simulations produce physically impossible outcomes, …
Can you teach someone to be funny? Is it wrong to laugh at things that are challenging or upsetting? How can we use humour to help understand and make meaning from current university research? These are the type of questions being asked, and answered, on You’re Up Next, a new …
When you think about a Bright Club event what is the first thing that comes to mind? Science communication and comedy? Yes, of course – but what else? Think back to the last time you attended Bright Club. Maybe you remember making your way to The Black Gate in Galway, …
Five NUI Galway public engagement and education initiatives have been awarded funding of more than €175,000 through Science Foundation Ireland’s Discover Programme, to fund projects dedicated to educating and engaging with 112,000 members of the public in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) in 2020. The funding awards were announced …
