Outreach Blog
Updates and reflections from the RESILIENCE STEM Outreach Team on their efforts to switch on schools students and others to the potential of a career in Medicines Manufacturing.
RESILIENCE Laboratory Science Workshop Featured on BBC An Là!
RESILIENCE’s new Laboratory Science Workshop has been featured on BBC An Là. Students from across the Highlands explored laboratory science through VR. The report showcases their experiences and the benefits of immersive learning.
24 Sep 2026Welcoming DIS Students from the USA to RESILIENCE & FlexBio for Another Inspiring Summer Workshop!
The RESILIENCE & FlexBio teams welcomed DIS Summer School students from the USA for a unique day of XR learning and hands-on activities in an interactive bioprocessing workshop at Heriot-Watt University.
14 Jul 2026Festival of the Boy - The very first event!
The very first Festival of the Boy started with virtual reality (VR) and RESLIENCE VR was the star of the show
26 May 2026Festival of the Girl!
18 Oct 25 RESILIENCE STEM outreach was really happening at Festival of the Girl (FoTG). RESILIENCE had a real adventure during the 2025 FoTG, meeting and educating the future generation of scientists (including world class biochemical engineers) who will develop and maintain the UK medicines manufacturing industry.
20 Jan 2026Workplace Accelerator Programme: combining immersive reality with technical lectures and interactive workshops to build the skills for medicines manufacturing !
Resilience has co‑designed a three‑tier Workplace Accelerator Programme that gives learners structured, hands‑on insight into working within a regulated environment.
20 Jan 2026Case Study: Using Unifrog to strengthen talent pipelines in UK medicines manufacturing!
Resilience uses the Unifrog careers platform to widen access to sector‑specific information on highly technical careers and attract future talent into UK medicines manufacturing roles.
3 Nov 2025Festival of the Boy - Role Models (Part Two)!
A campaign focussed on providing support and resources to parents and carers to help them raise boys in a less stereotyped way. In part two of our blog, research scientists at University College London reveal their positive male role models.
3 Nov 2025Festival of the Boy - Role Models (Part One)!
A campaign focussed on providing support and resources to parents and carers to help them raise boys in a less stereotyped way. In part one of our blog, we hear from research scientists at University College London as they tell us their male role models.
3 Nov 2025Festival of the Boy!
The organisers of Festival of the Girl launched a new non-profit in May - Festival of the Boy - that aims to celebrate boys and challenge the limiting gender stereotypes that often affect them in dysfunctional ways.
3 Nov 2025Empowering the Future of UK Medicines Manufacturing: Skills at the Heart of Sector Growth!
A newly published Sector Plan recognises Life Sciences as one of the UK's most powerful national assets in terms of saving lives, creating jobs, driving investment and powering innovation. RESILIENCE calls for Industry, Educators and Government to partner for impact.
29 Jul 2025Impact Case Study: Introducing the RESILIENCE STEM Outreach Fellows!
The STEM outreach events we run at the RESILIENCE centres are delivered with the generous support of volunteers. Meet our inspirational STEM Outreach Fellows, as they describe their motivations for being involved in outreach and their reasons for working with RESILIENCE. This case study is our way of acknowledging their efforts and giving a voice to our volunteers.
11 Jul 2025Big Bang Fair Reflections!
RESILIENCE attended the Big Bang Fair (17 - 19th June 2025, NEC Birmingham) hot on the heels of the Cheltenham Science Festival because we are dedicated to supporting schools develop their science curricula to incorporate current knowledge about medicines manufacturing. How did it go and how did we do?
23 Jun 2025Cheltenham Science Festival 2025 - Part 2: “Where do we go from here?”!
In the second part of her Cheltenham Science Festival reflection, RESILIENCE Outreach champion Dr. Bernice Wright shares some examples of individual conversations and responses to our outreach efforts, picking up on a commonly heard question as we reflect on our own hopes and ambitions for genuine impact on science skills for future medicines manufacturing.
11 Jun 2025Cheltenham Science Festival 2025 - Part 1: A View from the Tent!
In this first of two reflections on "a whirlwind week of controlled chaos", RESILIENCE Outreach champion Dr. Bernice Wright shares stories, views and lessons learned from taking part in one of the UK's leading public science festivals.
11 Jun 2025What does a week of Work Experience Training look like at RESILIENCE?!
The RESILIENCE partners at Heriot-Watt University welcomed four secondary school students for a full week of fun, interactive and hands-on work experience training, learning all about the medicine manufacturing process, careers in the sector, as well as practicing key lab techniques using both XR technologies and hand-on activities...
29 May 2025Why medicines manufacturing matters to UK growth!
The growth of the UK economy is critically dependent on a thriving, globally relevant medicines manufacturing sector driven by a highly skilled workforce. RESILIENCE has developed a growth strategy for the UK biopharmaceutical market that provides relevant skills for the rapidly increasing future job opportunities in this life science business area.
14 May 2025Building outreach skills and a career in science!
In this case study from UCL, recent RESILIENCE trainee Eleanor Mathias tells her own inspirational story of how something that started with the straightforward impulse to gain new technical skills led to something more transformational in her thinking about her future careeer trajectory at a cross-roads moment in her working life.
28 Apr 2025Student Outreach Biology Conference brings Teesside colleges together!
Teesside University recently hosted a Biology Conference for a number of local colleges to encourage students to looking in to studying biology and or science related subjects for future careers in Medicines Manufacturing.
18 Oct 2024Using immersive Virtual Reality for teaching – yes please!!
Over 200 pupils from 11 Renfrewshire secondary schools explored exciting educational pathways and career opportunities in Scotland's Life & Chemical Sciences and Advanced Manufacturing sectors during the recent Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre (MMIC) Employability Day.
10 Sep 2024Free training with immersive VR? Too good to be true? Guess again!!
Over fifty undergraduate and postgraduate students from all over Scotland attended a careers fair in Glasgow last week. Students were "absolutely blown away" by the RESILIENCE programs and future plans. RESILIENCE Research Associate at Heriot-Watt University Laura Porcza explains more...
31 Jul 2024Sixth-form student gains experience in real and virtual university research labs!
Thanks to RESILIENCE outreach activity a sixth form student from North Yorkshire recently spent a week in the research group of Prof Muhammad Safwan Akram at Teesside University learning all about the aseptic techniques required for working to good laboratory practice in both the virtual and the real world.
24 Jul 2024Medicines Manufacturing Careers Outreach Week!
‘A’ level students from across 3 schools have just completed an intensive 3-day lab placement at the UCL Department of Biochemical Engineering under the wing of RESILIENCE Outreach lead Dr Bernice Wright. The students enjoyed learning about mammalian cell culture and key analytics for evaluating cell phenotype, viability, and cellular products.
24 Jul 2024Students dive into cellular therapy development through RESILIENCE outreach!
A group of students from the USA had the chance to experience a virtual introduction to the interior of a cell and visualise potential careers in medicines manufacturing during a recent visit to Heriot-Watt University.
24 Jul 2024