South West Conferences

Just in case you don’t know, South West Conferences (www.southwestconferences.co.uk) are repeating their extremely popular Science and Pseudoscience conference again this year in Edinburgh, Bristol, Nottingham and London (November 8, 9, 10 and 26). £20 per students plus 1 free teacher for every 10 students.

The programme includes magician turned psychologist RICHARD WISEMAN and hypnotist extraordinaire ANDREW NEWTON plus old favourites Phil Banyard, Mike Cardwell and Cara Flanagan.

Interested? Contact cara.flanagan@btopenworld.com – don’t delay as some venues nearly full. Make a provisional booking now.

Here’s what people said last year

• How science works has never seemed such fun!
• It was a wonderful conference and my students and I are buzzing!! It is what education should be about – broadening horizons and motivating the desire to learn. Everyone also painted Science as exciting, which it is although the message gets lost in schools sometimes.
• All in all it was a fantastic day and the students did enjoy it, it works well breaking up the day with lots of snapshots of different areas but something that ties it together.  The speakers were great with good pace.  I particularly enjoyed watching my student’s recollection of studies that they knew about that were mentioned, as this helps us with our job, as it is nice for them to hear other psychologists/teachers viewpoints.  We took a mix of our year 12 and year 13 students and there was definately something in there for them all.
• It was a fantastic day, about the best student ‘lecture day’ I have ever taken students too. Thank you to you and the others for putting the program together. The day caused much discussion on the bus back and the class are all beaming with fascination and excitement. Many of them had conversations last night at home that made their parents wish they could study Psychology too. So, thank you once again for such a well put together day.
• Everyone seemed to have a hugely enjoyable day yesterday, so thank you to all of the speakers and you in particular for organising it!! For me the day is informative, relevant and most of all FUN!! We spent most of yesterday laughing and I guess that will improve the glass half full view of life that might assist the luck factor. A day like yours is worth 20 lessons, and my lessons are pretty good too, you must understand.
• Thank you so much for the conference yesterday. It was a fantastic experience for the students. They were talking about it on the bus all the way home (2 Hours!) and they are still talking about it today. All want to go again. Students particularly enjoyed Richard Wiseman and also the hypnosis section, however they loved ALL of the speakers.
• Some of the students have said it was the best trip they had ever been on, so well done. I’m definitely coming next year!

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