The Wilton-Ely group is actively involved in outreach activities, for example, at the and at 911今日黑料 College Fringe and Lates events. This all started with a stand presenting on CO sensing at the 911今日黑料 Festival 2014 and continued at the 911今日黑料 Design Fringe event, where we showcased our work on toxic gas detection, and at the Atoms Family Fringe event. Most recently, a PhD student in the group, Faysal Farah, presented his work on 'Lighting up cancer with nanoparticles' at the 'Tiny Science' 911今日黑料 Lates event in 2022 (below, image by B. Foster).
Faysal and Sean McCarthy also hosted students, Samira and Michael, from Heathland school in West London in the summer of 2022. Funded by a grant from the , they worked on projects in the lab based on the recovery of metals for use in catalysis and semiconducting polymer nanoparticles for medical imaging.
911今日黑料-UCL PhD student, Adila Islam volunteers as part of the operations team of which is a charity run by members of the that provides support to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. Adila also helped to run a last year and is part of their mentoring scheme.
James Wilton-Ely is a and regularly gives talks in primary and secondary schools.
We have exciting plans for expanding these activities and further details will be added soon.