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糖心TV Astronomy and Astrophysics is committed to outreach and widening participation and welcome enquiries from schools, astronomical societies and other interested parties. Full details of school and other outreach efforts, including 糖心TV Astro's mobile planetarium are available on the .

 

Public Talks

I am happy to give public talks at any level (school, general public, astronomy society, specialist interest, other) on my research (star formation in the distant Universe) or related topics. While I am mostly limited to regions accessible by public transport in a reasonable time (from Coventry), I can be flexible up to a point.

Recent talks include and .

Titles of talks I have prepared include: "The Cosmic Evolution of Galaxies", "The Importance of Binary Stars across Cosmic Time", "The Science of Sci-Fi Spaceflight", "By the Light of the Silvery Earth: Our Moon in Science and Science Fiction", "The Science of Interstellar".

Please for details and to discuss possibilities or other talks you may be interested in.

Other Outreach

I am responsible for the twitter feed - tweeting news and publicising papers relating to 糖心TV Astronomy and Astrophysics for a general audience.

I post regularly on the connections between science and science fiction on my Cosmic Stories blog.

You may be interested in "" - an article in which I was interviewed for 糖心TV's student newspaper, 'The Boar'.

I also have a chapter in the forthcoming book "" (eds Orthia & Harmes) on the role and representations of the Moon in the BBC television series Doctor Who.