This month we managed to catch up with SAW founder, research scientist and poet, Professor Anne Osbourn and asked her our top three questions. Hi Anne, what is your favourite...
Our new adventure activity book arrives in schools this summer. The latest edition in our series of science-inspired storybooks will see characters Ben, Jaz and Fizz the alien return for...
For the last three months, we have been lucky enough to have a new intern from the UEA, PhD biology student, Molly-Kay (aka MK). It’s been a pleasure working with...
Last month, we were delighted to return to the University of East Anglia to run another SAW training workshop for PGCE students. Delivering sessions for the primary team of the...
In between doing his day job and helping to deliver workshops with SAW, we managed to catch up with Edward Hems, research assistant at the John Innes Centre, to ask...
A team of enthusiastic scientists from the John Innes Centre; Edward Hems, Louisa Perry, Ainsley Beaton, Caroline Stone, Liam Chapman, Rebecca Diss, Emma Banks and Andy Truman were joined by...
On March the 21st we teamed up with the Food and Farming Discovery Trust (FFDT) to host an ‘AgriTech Careers for a Sustainable Future Event’ at the John Innes Centre...
From SAW’s very beginning in 2005, all our projects have begun with the collection of scientific images, from the abstract to the unrecognisable, a set of intriguing images prove to...
We were delighted to work with teacher Lucy Livermore and her year 5 class at Tacolneston Primary school to deliver a SAW project that explored our planet’s polar regions and...
In 2021 we started something big. With a team of scientists, an author, and an illustrator, and with the help of a carbon-neutral printing company, we set out to try...
Guardians of the Gut is an exciting new resource that is designed to teach children about the importance of their gut microbiome. Too small to see but outnumbering our human cells,...
An international exchange! In 2012, Bo Wang from the Reenway Group in Shanghai learned of the work of the SAW Trust and immediately saw the benefits that a program like...
This year we were delighted to be asked to take part in the Summer Reading Challenge at the Millennium Library in Norwich. Organised by The Reading Agency and delivered in...
Our latest intern, Nathan McConnell, tells us all about his time with SAW. About me I am a 3rd year PhD student from Prof. Tracey Chapmans lab at the UEA,...
This July we returned to Latitude Festival to run activities in the kids area’s science marquee and this year it was a hot one. With temperatures above 30°C in the...
Introducing Beth I am a PhD student from Professor Matt Hutchings’ group at the John Innes Centre, researching the relationship between wheat and the soil bacteria, Streptomyces. As part of...
In collaboration with Kath Griffiths (Norfolk Library and Information Service (NLIS)) and Professor Neil Cooper from the School of Psychology at the University of East Anglia, we have developed a...