Dr Aidan Robson
University of Glasgow
Dr Rebecca Crawford Public Engagement Group / STEM
Ambassadors
Win a Trip to CERN
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Easy to enter
Pre-select using Scottish Index of Multiple
Deprivation (SIMD) + Free School Meal (FSM)
Statistical measures are limited so Science
Connects local knowledge important
Schools in the West of Scotland
- Select 38 schools based on: attainment, high
FSM, and disadvantaged in other ways such
as coastal, remote, low employment, poor
HMI inspection
- CERN invites FSM 32%, Glasgow City 27%,
UK FSM 16%
- SIMD are small area concentrations of
multiple deprivation - many schools were in
top 5%.
SIMD datazones are ranked by the
concentration of multiple deprivation based
on an income, employment, health,
education, housing, access to services and
levels of crime.
- In 2015 10 winners from 37 entries
- Teacher advice and SIMD to pick winners
CERN and
Glasgow staff
Quotes…
On physics: “Does the Higgs not couple to the photon
then, since that has no mass?”
On meeting PhD students over dinner: “They weren’t
what I was expecting.” “They are normal people, just like us but a bit older. So that makes what
they do seem more achievable for us.”
On the international environment: “So many different cultures. Some countries don’t have
peace between them but the physics brings them together. That’s cool.”
What was the best part of the visit?
"Visiting the detectors, meeting all of the really interesting and inspiring people at CERN and seeing
a new culture for the first time“
“Sharing time with a group of likeminded people - interested in the same things and passionate
about them too. Getting reassurance from the PhD students that I'm making the right
choices. Getting excited about physics and the advances it is making in the world"
"It has definitely shown a totally new way of looking at Physics and my future and what I choose to
do with my life. The PhD students provided really interesting information about time spent in
University and then studying for a doctorate.“
“Completely in love with CERN"
Media coverage
Support for schools
- Annual masterclass
Support for schools
School and public outreach, particle physics
talks, workshops, exhibitions
Teacher CPD across Scotland to support
curriculum changes
Science Festival events, Meeting Maxwell
Cloud chamber loan kits
Three Minute Learning literacy resource
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Plastic beaker
cloud chamber
loan kits
Three Minute Learning – literacy
resource
CERN Visit Cohort Tracking
Particle
Physics
Masterclass
Outreach
Talks with
ROE, GSC,
schools
Win a Trip to CERN – pre trip
masterclass, support materials
Meeting Maxwell
(cultural approach)
Three Minute
Learning (literacy approach)
Cloud
chamber
kits
Glasgow Science Festival
public events
Guidance and support
for teachers
organising their own
CERN visits
Teacher CPD
supporting particle physics in the
curriculum
An extensive programme built on expertise, enthusiasm, and resources from:
Ogden, University of Glasgow Particle Physics, CERN, and SUERC
Science Connects and Glasgow Science Festival and STEM Ambassadors, 3ml
IOP Scotland Physics teachers network
In association with Education Scotland, RCUK and SSERC