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• The Little Event Bursary Application - 2025

  • Start
    04 Nov 2024
  •  
    12:00 AM
  • End
    09 Dec 2024
  •  
    11:59 PM
  • Location
    No location - application only

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  Bursary Application

  Applicants will be notified of their application status w/c 16 December, 2024. 

  Little Event 2025
  

  Thursday 16th January, 3:00pm-6:30pm & 
  Saturday 18th January, 9:00am-1:15pm

  Online via Zoom*  

  The bursary covers your registration fees for the Little Event, BIG membership for one year and reasonable expenses associated with you attending the Little Event. It is open to anyone in the first five years of their professional career and have not attended the Little Event or any other of BIG's events before. 

  To apply for a place at the Little Event through the bursary, please complete this form by clicking on 'register' to the left of this text. 

  If it's easier for you to prepare your responses before completing the form, you can download the guidelines (Little Event Bursary Application guidelines 2025) to prepare your answers ahead of completing the online application. 

  Deadline: 11:59pm, Monday 9th December, 2024 - sorry, late applications will not be considered.

   If you are successful with your bursary application and have already booked and paid for your conference place, BIG will refund your registration costs and refund your membership fee or extend your membership by 1 year. 

  Expenses will be issued on receipt of a completed expenses form after the Little Event. However, talk to us if this process would put you under unnecessary financial stress, and we can make other arrangements with you.

  *Each Zoom session will have automated Closed Captions and are LIVE sessions; they are not pre-recorded. 
  

  Any questions? Contact Ashley Kent 

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• The Little Event 2025 - Online

  • Start
    16 Jan 2025
  •  
    3:00 PM
  • End
    18 Jan 2025
  •  
    1:15 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  The Little Event

  Session 1: Thursday 16th January, 3:00 - 6:30pm; & Session 2: Saturday 18th January, 9:00am - 1:15pm Both sessions are GMT (London) time

  Online via Zoom (this is a LIVE event and NOT pre-recorded)

  The Little Event is BIG’s training session for people who are new to STEM communication, whether you work in a science centre or museum, volunteer for a festival, are involved in university outreach, or do anything else to engage people with science, technology, engineering and maths. The Little Event is crammed with introductory sessions focusing on developing the different skills that are useful in STEM communication; they are delivered by experienced science communicators following BIG's usual hands-on approach.
  The 2023 Little Event will be online and hosted live over two days. The days are designed to work together and are booked as a package (i.e. not sold separately) and delivered LIVE. They are NOT pre-recorded sessions. 

  But of course, it isn't just about the sessions, it’s the people you will meet, too. The Little Event also presents a great opportunity to meet people from across the UK working in similar roles and sharing similar experiences. The 2024 programme includes sessions on Evaluation, Managing Projects, Presenting, Science Capital and Careers and will include plenty of networking time as well as short comfort breaks. 

  
  

  2025 Schedule:

  Day 1 - Thursday, 16 January
  2:45-3pm: arrival and registration for a prompt 3pm start
  3-6:30pm: 2 sessions, 3 networking opportunities and breaks

  Day 2 - Saturday, 18 January
  8:45-9am: arrival and registration for a prompt 9am start
  9am- 1:15pm: 3 sessions, 2 networking opportunities and breaks

  BIG members: cost £50 login as a member first to be able to register for the Member rate. To login as a Member, use the email address you used to join BIG. If you can't remember what this is, please email admin@big.uk.com.

  Non-members: cost is £85 and includes BIG Membership for 1 year. 

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