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Public engagement resources

Here you will find resources that will support your engagement with public and patient audiences, who are not involved in the scientific world. 

Public engagement opportunities

If you’re passionate about sharing your science with public audiences, volunteering at an event, creating your own event, or becoming a BPS ambassador could be for you. 

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When to use these resources

You might want to talk to people about the importance of medicines and where they come from, or to explain what pharmacology is to school groups. Perhaps you are keen to demonstrate the impact of pharmacology and drug discovery research. These resources are available to support you to cover different topics and with different audiences.

If you enjoy learning about medicines, you could become a scientific explorer! Scientific explorers who study or work with medicines are called…

Juniors

A colouring book designed for those aged 7+, exploring where medicines come from and what it is like to be a science explorer.

Medicine Makers is a hands-on activity developed by the Biochemical Society and the British Pharmacological Society.

Originally recorded as part of Cheltenham Science Festival @ Home in June 2020.

Challenge yourself to a pharmacology quiz! Do you know your breakthroughs from your placebos?

Discover the origins of certain medicines, how…

This is a practical guide developed for researchers by the Sense about Science team. It aims to cover the key steps in involving the public in, and…

A handy flyer for explaining to public audiences what pharmacology is, why the world needs pharmacologists and what the Society does to support the…

What does genetics have to do with making new medicines? Here we introduce how understanding a person’s genomics can help scientists create more…

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