This month sees the launch of our Reaching Out for Further Education project: A Journey Through Happiness. Reaching Out is a new collaborative training pathway for postgraduate students and early career researchers provided by the University of Birmingham and Arts and Humanities Research Council. It promotes research dissemination, collaboration and knowledge exchange, and public engagement through outreach placements with partner arts and culture organisations. I (a chemist) am at Town Hall and Symphony Hall along with the awesome Gemma Norman (Ottomon history) and Tanya Pengelly (creative writing). A Journey Through Happiness consists of a number of 'intervention' projects which look at audience engagement and the science of happiness.