Hatch, S.;
Edwards, K.;
Watson, A.;
Matthews, J.;
(2024)
The Life Sciences Challenge: delivering an all-Wales bilingual inter-school competition for over 10 years and throughout a global pandemic.
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Abstract
The Life Sciences Challenge/Her Gwyddorau Bywyd is an all-Wales bilingual inter-school competition for Year 10 pupils, designed and delivered by students, staff scientists and engagement professionals within Cardiff University School of Medicine. The fun, interactive and challenging quiz was created to share an enthusiasm for understanding the natural world, and to inspire pupils to consider the extensive possibilities of future careers involving science. It is one of a suite of school engagement initiatives within the highly successful centrally coordinated Science in Health programme, established in 1994. Now in its 12th consecutive year, the Life Sciences Challenge/Her Gwyddorau Bywyd has evolved considerably, and it continues to attract participation from a growing number of schools across Wales. In this article, we: (1) explore the evolution of the Life Sciences Challenge/Her Gwyddorau Bywyd between 2013 and 2022, and how it swiftly adapted and responded to the Covid-19 pandemic, ensuring no interruption in delivery; (2) present data evidencing the impact of the Life Sciences Challenge/Her Gwyddorau Bywyd on our key stakeholders: participating Year 10 pupils, teachers and Cardiff University students; and (3) highlight lessons learnt, to improve the impact of a science/research outreach activity to relevant audiences, researchers, public engagement professionals and any organisation with a public engagement agenda aimed at schools.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | The Life Sciences Challenge: delivering an all-Wales bilingual inter-school competition for over 10 years and throughout a global pandemic |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/RFA.08.1.10 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/RFA.08.1.10 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2024, Sarah Hatch, Karen Edwards, Angharad Watson and James Matthews. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | bilingual, education, public engagement with research, science engagement, STEM, outreach |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10203504 |
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