{"id":62,"date":"2019-03-01T00:18:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T00:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/rebeccapayne2\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2019-09-04T16:43:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T15:43:16","slug":"public-engagement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/rebeccapayne2\/public-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Soapbox Science\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soapboxscience.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-279\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/rebeccapayne2\/files\/2019\/09\/9VPrG06n-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-274\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/rebeccapayne2\/files\/2019\/09\/soapbox-science-newcastle-2019_48255878466_o-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/rebeccapayne2\/files\/2019\/09\/soapbox-science-newcastle-2019_48255878466_o-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/rebeccapayne2\/files\/2019\/09\/soapbox-science-newcastle-2019_48255878466_o-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-277\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/rebeccapayne2\/files\/2019\/09\/soapbox-science-newcastle-2019_48255945537_o-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/rebeccapayne2\/files\/2019\/09\/soapbox-science-newcastle-2019_48255945537_o-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/rebeccapayne2\/files\/2019\/09\/soapbox-science-newcastle-2019_48255945537_o-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-275\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/rebeccapayne2\/files\/2019\/09\/soapbox-science-newcastle-2019_48255945492_o-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/rebeccapayne2\/files\/2019\/09\/soapbox-science-newcastle-2019_48255945492_o-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/rebeccapayne2\/files\/2019\/09\/soapbox-science-newcastle-2019_48255945492_o-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-276\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/rebeccapayne2\/files\/2019\/09\/soapbox-science-newcastle-2019_48255878196_o-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/rebeccapayne2\/files\/2019\/09\/soapbox-science-newcastle-2019_48255878196_o-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/rebeccapayne2\/files\/2019\/09\/soapbox-science-newcastle-2019_48255878196_o-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/rebeccapayne2\/files\/2019\/09\/soapbox-science-newcastle-2019_48255878196_o-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><strong>Primary School Visit<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>I visited Dame Allans Junior School (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) in 2017 to talk to a Year 2 class of eager 6-7 year olds about how to find different immune cells found in the blood. My favourite questions were &#8220;Did you enjoy science at school?&#8221; and &#8220;Can we eat the sweets?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_267\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-267\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-267\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/rebeccapayne2\/files\/2019\/09\/school-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/rebeccapayne2\/files\/2019\/09\/school-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/rebeccapayne2\/files\/2019\/09\/school-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/rebeccapayne2\/files\/2019\/09\/school-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/rebeccapayne2\/files\/2019\/09\/school.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Using sweets to explain different blood cell types &#8211; a captive audience!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soapbox Science\u00a0 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Primary School Visit I visited Dame Allans Junior School (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) in 2017 to talk to a Year 2 class of eager 6-7 year olds about how to find different immune cells found in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/rebeccapayne2\/public-engagement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Public Engagement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6274,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-62","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/rebeccapayne2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/rebeccapayne2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/rebeccapayne2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/rebeccapayne2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/rebeccapayne2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/rebeccapayne2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/rebeccapayne2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/rebeccapayne2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}