The theme for this year’s ESRC Festival of Social Science was ‘Our Digital Lives’, and we decided to explore some of the impacts of growing digitalisation at our Resonate Late, ‘It’s All Digital’.

Our first event of the Resonate Festival of Social Science 2024 saw 4 academics from the Department of Politics and International Studies discussing climate change with 44 wonderful members of the public!

Every time you fill out a feedback form for our events, we are able to develop the Resonate programme and improve our offering. Over our Summer break in 2024, we took some time to reflect.

Calling all Year 12 female-identifying UK Physics and STEM students! Every year, XMaS offers an opportunity to win an all-expenses paid trip to Grenoble, France, to visit the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) – a world-leading research facility!

Read about how we worked with Design Studies to create a community art piece at EcoFest 2024, while thinking about sustainable clothing!

On Monday 8th July over 700 teachers and pupils from over 40 Coventry schools took part in the finale of the Flame of Friendship.

Despite the recent bad weather, the sun was shining bright on Sunday 2nd June 2024 for the Resonate Festival of Arts and Culture – Day Out! We welcomed over 600 visitors to the Faculty of Arts Building and Oculus Field for a day of fun and creativity as we explored World Culture together.

Explore this fascinating digital exhibition about early modern divination. First organised by Dr Martha McGill, Imogen Knox and Francesca Farnell and hosted at Coventry Central Library as part of the 2022 Resonate Festival, ‘Stars, Sieves and Stories’ is now available online.

Discover methods, stories, activities and more as the exhibition guides you through the ways that people tried to tease out the secrets of the universe.

On Wednesday 22nd May we headed to the historic Chapelfields district in Coventry for a virtual walking tour and panel discussion. Catch up with the videos here!

Please note these are for 18+ viewing only.

On Saturday 6th April 2024 we welcomed lots of eager bookworms to the Warwick Arts Centre for a celebration of reading, stories and languages! Perceptive readers will note that this was a few months ago – it’s been go, go, go in the Resonate team since then, but we wanted to sit down and reflect on what a great event we had!

At this event we learned about the importance of including public voice when helping to advise policy decision makers, and got to experience what it might be like to be part of a Patient and Public Involvement Group.

A fun day was had by all at this festival-style day for all ages!

An exciting collaboration between scientists from the University of Warwick, Imperial College London and Cambridge University and dance artists from The Place.

On Thursday 7th March, we popped up at the Tin Music and Arts in Coventry for ‘Behind the Scenes with Science Technicians’. In a Resonate first, all of the evenings talks were by Science Technicians.

For our first event of the Resonate Festival of Science and Technology, we spent the evening with four Warwick researchers who all study the Weather in different ways.

We took over an empty shop unit in Leamington Spa to showcase exciting new research from University of Warwick students.

On Wednesday 15th November, we held our final event of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2023.

Find out more about our event with Baroness Catherine Ashton, Chancellor of the University of Warwick.

Planting Roots festival, a collaboration between Warwick Arts Centre, Warwick Institute of Engagement and Foleshill Community Centre, was a huge success!

Take a look at our ideas for what the future might look like!