Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2017

The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition

A free, week-long festival celebrating the cutting edge of UK science.

Glasgow Science Festival 2017

Science Festivals

We are happy to exhibit at various science festivals. Naturally we support the Glasgow Science Festival, but also go further afield, for example to the Orkney Science Festival.

Chasing the Waves

Chasing the Waves

Collaborative projects have included Chasing the Waves, a project that brought together researchers in IGR, actors and musicians to produce a live, musical show about the detection of gravitational waves.

First gravitational wave signal mosaic 2016

GW150914 mosaic

Younger members of the public were encouraged to help make a large mosaic of the first gravitational wave signal and the completed work will shortly go on display in the Glasgow Science Centre.

Giving talk at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2016

Invited Talks

Invited talks at New Scientist Live, public plenary talks e.g. SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2016 and several talks with various Scottish astronomical societies.

Wired Audi Innovation Awards 2016

Wired Audi Innovation Awards 2016

Sheila Rowan was awarded the Scientific Breakthrough prize at the 2016 Wired Audi Innovation Awards.