Public Event: Resonate Roadshow for URSS

Resonate Roadshow

Sharing undergraduate research with the public

On Saturday 25th November 2023, 33 Warwick undergraduates participated in the Resonate Roadshow to share their URSS research projects with members of the public. The event took place in a vacant shop unit in Royal Priors shopping centre in Leamington Spa. 165 people visited the event over the course of the day.

The students attended masterclasses and support sessions arranged by the Warwick Institute of Engagement to help them prepare hands-on activities and posters to engage with people about their research. They learnt how to use activities and visual displays to spark conversations about the subjects they are passionate about.

Congratulations to the students and thank you to Royal Priors for the use of their space. Finally, huge thanks to all the people who came to the event!

Feedback from the public

We asked visitors to the event to write three words describing their experience. In this word cloud, the most used words are largest:

Words in teal and purple scattered in a landscape rectangle. The largest words are interesting, informative, fun and engaging. Other words are .learning, inspiring, enjoyable, interactive, fresh, creative, dope, brilliant, neat, science, enjoy, open discourse, positive, educational, maths, calming, history, different, inspiring, welcoming, enjoyable, great idea, discover, uplifting, epic, new, swag, exciting.

Feedback from the students

We surveyed the participating students about their experience, with one third of them responding. All of the respondents said that their overall experience of taking part was "good" or "excellent". 73% of the students surveyed told us they developed in three or more skills, the most common being communication, professionalism and self-awareness.

Photos and more feedback

A shopping centre interior showing the entrance to a shop called Positive Outlook.

In the shopping centre, a student laughs with a member of the public.

The event took place in a vacant shop unit in Royal Priors shopping centre in Leamington Spa.

By the doorway of a shop, a poster that says Resonate Roadshow

"Everyone is very nice and welcoming"

- a visitor, aged 16

“Good to find out the range of research at uni and excited about where it could lead”

- a visitor, aged 58

A student talking to two members of the public. They have a table with objects on it, including a CD, and an iPad on a stand.

A student stands behind a table with a molecular model on it, lots of pictures and an iPad.

What's crystal diffraction?

A student talks to two members of the public next to their poster.

This poster is called 'teaching machines how to learn'.

A student talks to two members of the public who are holding different objects to test their hardness.

Molecular Lego, make your own reactions.

A student talks to two visitors about their poster.

PCR - a DNA photocopier detecting the DNA of COVID-19.

A child shaking a bottle of water with colourful objects in it. Another child and two adults watch.

student crouches behind a table talking to a child while they shake a large water bottle. Another child and two adults watch.

Physics of fluids.

A student talks to a young person about their colourful poster.

How to make plastic more recyclable?

"Really great to hear about the student research projects happening at the University of Warwick"

- a visitor, aged 36

A student talking to a member of the public in front of a landscape poster.

Two students next to two posters, talking to three people in coats and hats.

Ninja particles: how much do they weigh? (left). The Art of Justification: Colonial Hong Kong Education (right).

A child drawing with a coloured pen. There is a multi-coloured spinner on the table. An adult is watching.

Do you have what it takes to become a contemporary artist?

A child drawing on yellow paper. An adult watching in the background.

A student standing behind a table with coloured paper and pens and a multi-coloured spinning wheel. On the wall in the background are lots of pictures.

A student talks to a visitor over a table that displays pictures of ancient sources and monuments.

A landscape flipchart sheet asking 'o what extent do you think the humanity of enslaved people was recognised in Rome? Why? here is a scale from 1 to 10 and people have stuck Roman themed stickers along it.

The Roman law of slavery: to what extent was the humanity of enslaved people recognised?

A student talks to a visitor about their poster.

Wireless heating: how induction could revolutionize cancer therapy.

"It was good to know which you don’t know in day-to-day life"

- a visitor, aged 35

"I want to do URSS!"

- a visitor, aged 21

Three children using microscopes to look at different objects on a table. Some adults are watching them.

A student shows pictures to a visitor. On the table are various objects, including large models of insects in boxes.

How small can you see?

How important was football for Coventry's post-war recovery?

A student gestures while talking to two visitors.

When mathematics meets biology.

A student talks about their green poster with another student and two police officers in fluorescent jackets.

Green hydrogen as the future fuel.

A young child is playing a board game with two adults. On the table are a board, colourful counters, cards and sand timers.

A young child is playing a board game with an adult. Another adult talks to a Warwick student about the board game.

Adventure through the Milky Way!

A student shows a visitor a diagram with counters to move around it.

What are automata and infinite length games?

"Really engaging conversations"

- a visitor, aged 28

"Such an experience. Enthusiastic students. More please"

- a visitor, aged 70

A student laughs with some adults while a child lifts a fluffy toy worm on a string.

Two children lift fluffy toy worms out of bowls using string and magnets.

Hook-a-Worm.

A student talks to two visitors by their poster.

The semiconductor market and the role of an economist.

Four students smile as they listen to a visitor. They are standing between two posters and a table.

Iso-Acids in Beer: A Bitter Solution to Solving Alzeimer's Disease.

A student talks to a visitor about their quiz, which is on coloured paper and on an iPad.

What is the point of a country having a feminist foreign policy?

A student talking to a visitor next to their poster.

Two students talk to a visitor in front of their posters.

Activity in the stars (left). The sibling rivalry of learning to speak (right).

A student smiling as they listen to two visitors in front of a green poster.

Cabbage SOS: outsmarting black rot.

"Really good that the uni is encouraging UG students to present research and engage with the public"

- a visitor, aged 33

A student smiles with an adult and child.

A student at a tale with photos, coloured paper, a whiteboard and a laptop on it.

What do we think about when we walk around a garden?

A student smiles next to their poster while talking to visitors.

Looking at the possible link of APoE to possible COVID-19 outcome.

A student talking to an adult. There are different objects and foods on the table.

Channelling our Inner Senses.

A student standing next to a poster which has a photo of a father and young child on it.

Do parents use paid parental leave to take care of their children?

Three students talking together next to a poster.

Three students standing with their posters. One of the students is holding a tennis ball and their poster is titled 'on the bounce'.

Bacterial sunscreens (left). On the bounce (right).

A student talking to a visitor. On the table between them are bottles of different coloured liquids, from red to blue.

A cheap monitor for water pollution.

"Really kind to our 2-year-old"

- a visitor, aged 28

A visitor listening intently to a student.

Two students standing with their posters and a pinboard with photos on it.

How can bacteria help you? (Left.) Green hydrogen as the future fuel (right).

When mathematics meets biology.

Two students standing with their posters.

Maths beyond numbers (left). The building blocks of the solar system (right).

"Really great to hear about the student research projects happening at the University of Warwick"

- a visitor