NI Science Festival returns 12-23 February 2025 with over 250 events celebrating the Science of You, The Universe & Everything In-Between! Full programme has now been revealed! #NISF25
As a festival partner and funder, Queen's Faculty of Medicine, Health & Life Sciences is proud to be hosting and be involved in multiple events throughout the University campus.
| Event Name | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday 30 Jan 2025 | ||
| 9:30 am - 1:00 pm | The Great Hall | |
| Wednesday 12 Feb 2025 | ||
| Look Closer (Screenings & Mini Lab Workshops) - Bangor | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Space Bangor |
| Visualise your music | 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Sonic Arts Research Centre |
| 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm | The Seamus Heaney Centre | |
| Thursday 13 Feb 2025 | ||
| Innovation in Action: An Engineering Research Showcase | 9:30 am - 3:30 pm | Ashby Building |
| Look Closer (Screenings & Mini Lab Workshops) - Newcastle | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Newcastle Community Cinema |
| Building a Regenerative Design Ecosystem | 6:45 pm - 8:45 pm | Canada Room |
| The Wonderful World of Pharmacy | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm | School of Pharmacy |
| Jules Howard - Infinite Life | 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | The Seamus Heaney Centre |
| Charlie Hooper-Williams | 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm | The Harty Room |
| The Science of Dreams | 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm | The MAC |
| Thursday 13 - Sunday 16 Feb 2025 | ||
| 10:00 am - 5:00 pm | Sonic Arts Research Centre | |
| Friday 14 Feb 2025 | ||
| Look Closer (Screenings & Mini Lab Workshops) - Strabane | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Alley Theatre |
| Children's Voices Matter | 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | David Keir Building |
| Take a Deep Dive into the Dark Side of Personality | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm | David Keir Building |
| LUMI x NISF: Frankenhooker | 9:00 pm | Queen's Film Theatre |
| Saturday 15 Feb 2025 | ||
| Queen's Biology Showcase | 10:30 am - 1:30 pm | School of Biological Sciences Building |
| Build the Universe! | 10:30 am and 2:00 pm | Lanyon Building |
| QUB Astronomy Day | 10:30 am - 4:00 pm | Astrophysics Research Centre |
| Look Closer (Screenings & Mini Lab Workshops) - Limavady | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Roe Valley Arts & Cultural Centre |
| Artificial Intelligence and the Computing that Drives It | 11:00 am - 2:00 pm | Computer Science Building |
| Healthcare Heroes - Step Into the Simulation | 11:00 am and 2:00 pm | InterSim Centre, MBC |
| Dog Training: The Science Behind It | 1:00 pm -1:30 pm | St Columb's Park House, Derry/Londonderry |
| Doctoring James Joyce | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | The Seamus Heaney Centre |
| QUB Experimental Medicine Showcase | 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine |
| Inside the Lab - The Science of Cell Culture at QUB | 1:30 pm, 2:30 pm and 3:30 pm | Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine |
| Northern Ireland Raspberry Jam | 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm | School of Maths and Physics Teaching Centre |
| Visualised Karaoke | 2:00 pm | The Harty Room |
| National Geographic Explorers Talk - Lucy Hawkes | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Elmwood Hall |
| QUB Experimental Medicine: Imaging Core Facility Tour | 2:00 pm and 3:00 pm | Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine |
| Sound on Paper | 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | The Harty Room |
| LUMI x NISF: Ghost Strata | 3:45 pm | Queen's Film Theatre |
| In Conversation with Sir Tim Smit (Eden Project) | 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Elmwood Hall |
| LUMI x NISF: Paprika | 6:00 pm | Queen's Film Theatre |
| Sunday 16 Feb 2025 | ||
| LUMI x NISF: Ice Age | 12:30 pm | Queen's Film Theatre |
| Exploring the Universe with Maggie Aderin-Pocock | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Whitla Hall |
| A Palette of Possibilities: Celebrating Kidney Health | 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Senate Room |
| Ocean - Bringing Marine Dreams To Life with Steve Backshall | 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Whitla Hall |
| LUMI x NISF: Ghost in the Shell | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Queen's Film Theatre |
| Monday 17 Feb 2025 | ||
| Transplantation Tales: An Educational Workshop in Kidney Care and Research 2025 | 10:00 am - 3:00 pm | Queen's University Belfast |
| Living with Lynx: Sharing Landscapes with Big Cats, Wolves and Bears | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Canada Room |
| The Science of Superheroes in Film and Television | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm | The Black Box |
| How Did Evolution Give Us Free Will? | 7:00 pm - 9:45 pm | Peter Froggatt Centre |
| Tuesday 18 Feb 2025 | ||
| NI Engineering Goes into Space | 10:30 am - 12:30 pm | Armagh Observatory & Planetarium |
| An Anatomical Workshop on Respiration and Deglutition (Breathing and Swallowing) | 11:00 am - 1:00 pm | Medical Biology Centre |
| The 23rd Annual Sir Bernard Crossland Lecture | 5:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Lanyon Building |
| The Tuesday Group with Ruby Free | 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | The Seamus Heaney Centre |
| Exploring the Science of Critical Illness | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm | The Thomas J Moran Graduate School |
| Data - Securing Our Future or Dominating Our Lives? | 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm | Lanyon Building |
| Brain-Computer Interface, Science or Science-fiction? | 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm | Newcastle Community Cinema |
| Rocks from Space! | 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Larmor Lecture Theatre |
| Wednesday 19 Feb 2025 | ||
| Science at Queen's | 5:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Whitla Hall |
| Causes and Consequences of Toxic Masculinity | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm | School of Biological Sciences Building |
| NISF X SCREEN/PRINT: The Substance | 8:45 pm | Queen's Film Theatre |
| Thursday 20 Feb 2025 | ||
| Lough Neagh Reflections – Restoring water quality in Northern Ireland | 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm | School of Biological Sciences Building |
| What is Life? | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm | The Thomas J Moran Graduate School |
| Friday 21 Feb 2025 | ||
| Transplantation Tales: An Educational Workshop in Kidney Care and Research 2025 | 10:00 am - 3:00 pm | Queen's University Belfast |
| DroneVirus – What Made My Drones Go Rogue? | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Computer Science Building |
| Extinctions with Michael Benton | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm | The Seamus Heaney Centre |
| Saturday 22 Feb 2025 | ||
| Cut and Paste | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Medical Biology Centre |
| Open Sound Lab | Sat 22 and Sun 23 Feb, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Sonic Arts Research Centre |
| Feeding Babies in a Changing Climate | 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Senate Room |
| Climate Emergency Department | 1:00 pm and 2:00 pm | Medical Biology Centre |
| Northern Ireland’s Hidden Depths – A Journey into our Underwater World | 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Ulster Museum |
| Sunday 23 Feb 2025 | ||
| My Left or your Left? The Science of Right Left Confusion | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | The Thomas J Moran Graduate School |
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