Congratulations to Dr Paul Taylor (Chemistry and IATL), Nick Barker (Chemistry) and Paul Blagburn (Student Admissions and Recruitment) who have successfully secured £150,000 from the Royal Society of Chemistry’s National Widening Participation (WP) programme ‘Chemistry for All’. Competition for these awards was fierce and Warwick was one of just four institutions, out of sixteen, to receive funding.

With this money, Warwick will work with six schools over the next five years to deliver long-term sustained Chemistry outreach interventions. The emphasis will be on building strong, focused relationships with each of the schools, with the long-term aim to inspire young people from WP backgrounds to study Chemistry at a higher education level.

The Royal Society of Chemistry praised the University’s ‘Warwick model – where the University has developed expertise in WP outreach across departments’, highlighting that this was one of the reasons ‘we are so keen to work with you in the context of chemistry.’

To help create a strong narrative throughout the five years, the programme will draw on the recently developed ‘Science & Survival’ WP festival organised by Warwick’s Science faculty, with Paul Taylor leading for Chemistry. ‘Science & Survival’ will be interpreted in three thematic ways in Chemistry to incorporate research strengths from Warwick and appeal to potential students:

· Chemistry and Survival of the Individual: Biomedical chemistry & drug discover

· Chemistry and Urban Survival: Better lives through new materials

· Chemistry and Survival of the Planet: Green chemical production & green energy

For more information visit:

· Our innovative Unitracks programme

· Chemistry’s well-establish outreach programme

· The Institute of Advanced Teaching and Learning’s (IATL’s) evidence-based approach to inclusive outreach and teaching practice