Talks for schools 

  •  We will visit you to talk generally about university admissions and careers.
  • We organise programmes of seminars, tours and practicals at the University of Birmingham specific topics for both pupils and teachers.
  • We are also active participants in the BBSRC school liaison scheme for primary Schools.
  • We are usually able to pay the expenses so there will be no cost to you.

Contact: Dr. Jeremy Pritchard (Tel. 0121 414 5570, Fax. 0121 414 5925 Email J.Pritchard@bham.ac.uk).

Frontier Science talks: supporting your curriculum

  • Professor Mark Pallen: The inner life of bacteria
  • Professor Noni Franklin-Tong: Pollination: Plants talk to each other
  • Professor Chris Thomas: The use and abuse of antibiotics
  • Professor Charles Penn: The Microbiology of Diseases
  • Dr Jeremy Pritchard: Sweetness and light: Plants and Pressure
  • Dr Jeremy Pritchard: Darwin, Evolution and the West Midlands
  • Dr Jeremy Pritchard: Molecular and Physiological Control of herbivore pests
  • Dr Robin May: How infectious organisms manipulate their hosts
  • Professor Steve Busby: Genetic Engineering
  • Dr Steve Publicover: A sperm's life - short but exciting?
  • Dr Steve Minchin: The Human Genome Project