Chris Wareing's Outreach Activities

I have given talks at amateur astronomy societies, SciBars, secondary schools and colleges with titles such as

- "Lost into Space: the fate of our Sun"
- "Revealing the mass-loss history of a star"
- "HOW TO GO FROM SAVING THE WORLD FROM GLOBAL WARMING TO PREDICTING THE FUTURE OF OUR SUN IN 5 BILLION YEARS!"

In the past I have been the North-West Regional Coordinator for the Science for Schools programme organised by the Royal Institution of Great Britain and funded by the Royal Society. In that role, I ran science-based events at schools and other venues around the North-West region of the UK for school children aged 9 to 18 and a few events for the general public. In the scope of the programme, we reached over 30,000 children between September 2005 and July 2007.

I have also been the coordinator of the Mobile Planetarium into Primary Schools project at Jodrell Bank under Dr Tim O'Brien. In the course of doing this, I have personally enthused and excited several thousand children about astronomy and been able to show them the stars inside a portable inflatable stardome.

I have given astronomy-based talks for the National Association of Gifted Children in Cheshire and been part of various of their events at Jodrell Bank.

If you have a planetarium and require a speaker or require a demonstration-based interactive talk on mathematics or astronomy in general, please get in touch.

Some presentations given at previous outreach activities:

"HOW TO GO FROM SAVING THE WORLD FROM GLOBAL WARMING TO PREDICTING THE FUTURE OF OUR SUN IN 5 BILLION YEARS!" - extended and revised version.
A presentation at Lancaster Girls Grammar School, 26th June 2014.

"HOW TO GO FROM SAVING THE WORLD FROM GLOBAL WARMING TO PREDICTING THE FUTURE OF OUR SUN IN 5 BILLION YEARS!"
A presentation at Oldham College, 13th November 2012.

"Lost into Space: The Fate of our Sun" or "Revealing the mass-loss history of a star" - extended and revised version.
A presentation for Leeds Astronomical Society, 11th July 2012.

"Lost into Space: The Fate of our Sun"
A presentation for West Didsbury Astronomical Society, 14th June 2010.

"The future of our Sun"
A presentation at the Didsbury SciBar, 2009.

"Whirpools in Space"
A presentation competing for the 2006 Ogden Prize and 2006 Cavendish Medal and other prizes at a Special Parliamentary Reception for UK Physics Research and R&D on Tuesday, 28th November 2006, at the Houses of Parliament.