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The Department of Physics at King's College London is active in outreach both nationally and internationally.
Within the UK, we aim to foster interest in science and physics in the general public, and in particular to foster such interest in school-age students. Some of the resources on this page are intended to help teachers and prospective students learn more about what kind of research is done in the physics department at King's, what the most exciting areas of current research in physics are, and where a career in physics can take you.
The department is actively developing an international outreach programme building on some of the existing international projects that department members are working on. Several of these projects provide physics training and education to countries which, for a multitude of reasons, are lacking resources and manpower to conduct high level science research, leading to isolation from the international scientific community.
nmes-outreach@kcl.ac.uk
The African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications is an intensive, postgraduate summer school which takes place in a different African country every two years. Between 60 and 70 of the brightest postgraduate physics students from all over Africa are selected and sponsored to attend the school which provides courses on everything ranging from theoretical particle physics and cosmology to experimental particle detection techniques to data analysis and computing to applications such as medical physics.
King's physicists Professor Bobby Acharya and Professor John Ellis have been amongst the five members of the International Organising Committee of the schools since their inception and have played a key role in founding and establishing the schools. Both regularly give lectures and courses and tutorials at the schools.
The Optics Summer School is a free, multi-day event for students in Y12 who are interested in finding out more about the science of light. Over the course of the summer school, participants will get to know like-minded people, meet some of our current students, and discover what studying physics at university might be like. Alongside this, students do hands-on workshops, upskilling in optics and deepening their understanding of this historic and cutting-edge topic.
Find out more about the optics summer school
Invisible Explorers is an educational outreach project designed to introduce GCSE students to particle physics. Our resources include both interactive self guided learning for students and teacher packs to support classroom delivery. Invisible Explorers features expert insights and up-to-date research to inspire and inform young scientists.
Find out more about the project
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