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In April, The Society announced the projects that have been funded in this year’s Public Engagement Grants. The scheme, now in its second year, offers up to £5000 for projects that promote engagement between public audiences and physiologists. This year we have funded five imaginative projects, which take physiology to a range of different audiences.

Following the success of last year’s Sports Zone, we are funding the Human Limits Zone in June’s round of I’m a Scientist: Get me out of here!
Physiology Bites, from Adair Richards Associates, brings together physiologists and school children to discuss exciting areas of physiological research and to make radio documentaries.

The Royal Veterinary College is being funded to expand its RVC Lates, evening events combining hands-on activities and demonstrations.
The Angel Exit Theatre company will bring the endocrine system to life at the Green Man Festival in August using Greek mythology in an event called Hormone Harmony.

The Society also provided a grant to support The Enlightenment Café’s Deadinburgh event, in the Scottish capital, that ran from 18–21 April. Deadinburgh was an immersive theatre project in which scientists from the Roslin Institute, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology and neuroscientists from Edinburgh University interacted with a lay audience to determine how to respond to an epidemic turning the city’s residents into zombies.