{"id":109,"date":"2019-11-05T11:27:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T11:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/?p=109"},"modified":"2019-11-05T11:27:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T11:27:14","slug":"showcase-research-yornight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/2019\/11\/05\/showcase-research-yornight\/","title":{"rendered":"Showcase your research at YorNight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Applications are now open to showcase your research at York Researchers&#8217; Night (YorNight).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This family-friendly event, which has attracted audiences of up to 3,000 people in previous years, aims to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>encourage young people to consider research as a career, and particularly to inspire young girls and women<\/li><li>demonstrate how research improves our daily lives in a range of ways, and provides economic and societal benefits<\/li><li>show that research is varied and unexpected, and that being a researcher is interesting<\/li><li>convey the message to the public that researchers are everywhere, not just in the most obvious places eg laboratories<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Send your proposals for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>engaging, family-friendly, hands-on activities that explain your research to the public<\/li><li>short, 15-minute talks explaining your research in an accessible way.  <\/li><li>8-minute long science cabaret acts (story-telling, music, comedy, performance, art etc) <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event is at York Barbican on Saturday 8 February 2020. Applications must be received by 12 midnight on Wednesday 13 November.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/staff\/external-relations\/outreach\/events\/yornight\/\" target=\"_blank\">Find out more and propose an activity<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applications are now open to showcase your research at York Researchers&#8217; Night (YorNight).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-engagement","tag-yornight"],"acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","custom_fields":{"_edit_lock":["1572953211:9"],"_edit_last":["9"],"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":["7"],"_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":["Applications are now open to showcase your research at York Researchers' Night (YorNight)."],"_yoast_wpseo_content_score":["30"],"_jetpack_related_posts_cache":["a:1:{s:32:\"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb\";a:2:{s:7:\"expires\";i:1786257862;s:7:\"payload\";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:\"id\";i:1530;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:\"id\";i:1653;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:\"id\";i:404;}}}}"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}