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Stargazing at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

在朴茨茅斯历史造船厂观星

基本信息

批准号：
ST/P006051/1
负责人：
Karen Masters
金额：
$ 0.51万
依托单位：
University of Portsmouth
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2017 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ST%2FP006051%2F1
关键词：
Stargazing Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

项目摘要

The overall aim of this project is to engage Portsmouth area families and members of the general public with the astrophysics, cosmology and gravitation research undertaken at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth through a large scale evening event held at the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. This STFC Small Award will allow us to maintain and grow a successful public engagement partnership in Portsmouth. We have run this event at the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard (PHD) annually since 2013. Holding the event at this iconic location allows us to attract local people who know the Dockyard and might be less willing to come on to the campus of the University of Portsmouth for a similar event. However shortening budgets for the Learning Departments of PHD put the continuation of this event at risk if we cannot demonstrate an ability to cover some of the costs of keeping this site open after dark. To solve this dilemma, half of the funding we ask for in this Small Award will cover the staffing costs of keeping this historic site open after it normally closes. The other half of the funding we request will allow us to evaluate the impact that this event has on the people who attend, both for the upcoming event in 2017, but also looking back to events since 2013. We believe this annual event has a significant impact on the local families and members of the public who attend, in raising their awareness of world class, STFC funded research taking place right here in Portsmouth. In order to keep the costs of evaluation down, as well as enable a secondary aim of educating a Portsmouth undergraduate about evaluating the impact of science communication, we plan to do this evaluation as part of a funded summer undergraduate research project. We will identify an undergraduate to take this on who is one of the volunteers at the 31st Jan 2017 event. In the summer, under our supervision this undergraduate will make use of evaluation metrics and data collection to attempt to measure what our audience does, feels, values and understands as a result of our events. This will not only improve future events, but also provide a case study (which we aim to write up for publication) about the impact of similar local Stargazing themed events held all over he country.

该项目的总体目标是通过在朴茨茅斯历史船坞举行的大型晚间活动，让朴茨茅斯地区的家庭和公众参与朴茨茅斯大学宇宙学和引力研究所开展的天体物理学、宇宙学和引力研究。这个STFC小奖将使我们能够在朴茨茅斯保持和发展一个成功的公众参与伙伴关系。自2013年以来，我们每年都在朴茨茅斯历史船坞（PHD）举办这项活动。在这个标志性的地点举办活动，使我们能够吸引当地人谁知道船坞，可能不太愿意来朴茨茅斯大学的校园类似的活动。然而，如果我们不能证明有能力支付天黑后保持网站开放的部分费用，那么博士学习部门的预算缩短将使这一活动的继续面临风险。为了解决这一困境，我们在这个小奖中要求的一半资金将用于支付这一历史遗址在正常关闭后保持开放的人员费用。我们申请的另一半资金将使我们能够评估本次活动对参加者的影响，无论是对于即将到来的2017年活动，还是回顾自2013年以来的活动。我们相信，这一年度活动对当地家庭和公众谁参加，在提高他们对世界一流的认识，STFC资助的研究发生在这里的朴茨茅斯有重大影响。为了降低评估成本，以及实现教育朴茨茅斯本科生评估科学传播的影响的次要目标，我们计划做这个评估作为资助的暑期本科生研究项目的一部分。我们将确定一名本科生参加2017年1月31日活动的志愿者之一。在夏天，在我们的监督下，这名本科生将利用评估指标和数据收集，试图衡量我们的观众做什么，感觉，价值观和理解作为我们的活动的结果。这不仅将改善未来的活动，而且还提供了一个案例研究（我们的目标是写出来出版），关于类似的地方观星主题活动在全国各地举行的影响。