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Soapbox Science Brighton 2025

11am - 2pm
Saturday 24th May, 2025


Brighton & Hove beach

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Soapbox Science Brighton will be returning to Brighton & Hove beach on Saturday 24th May 2025.

Our call for speakers has now closed. The full programme for speakers will appear here shortly (by the end of April, 2025).

   

The call for volunteers for Soapbox Science Brighton 2025 is now open!

If you are interested in helping ensure that the event runs smoothly on the day, we would greatly appreciate your help! To apply to become a volunteer, please complete our online form.

The deadline for volunteering is 3 weeks before the event, at the end of the day (midnight) on Sunday the 4th May, 2025. This lead time is essential to give us time to liaise with the companies supplying refreshments and t-shirts.


We have the following speaker lineup for Soapbox Science Brighton 2025...

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Speaker details for
Soapbox Science Brighton, 2025.

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Dr Rhiannon Mae Armitage
School of Psychology, University of Sussex
Topic TBC.

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Amber Besseling
Department of Neuroscience, University of Sussex
Suppressing traumatic memories.

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Dr Giada Brianza
Department of Computer Science at University College, London
Magic mirror on the wall, are we biased by smell at all?

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Alice Clark
School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex
Monitoring biodiversity along the Sussex coast using video surveys and environmental DNA.

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Sophia Cox
School of Psychology, University of Sussex
Beyond Food Diaries: AI, Smart Glasses & Personalised Nutrition

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Dr Maria Hadjimarkou
School of Psychology, University of Sussex
What's Sleep Got to Do with It?

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Dr Nourhan Hendawy
Department of Chemistry, University of Sussex & Biaco Energy Ltd.
How Plasma Energy Could Spark the Green Revolution to Net Zero.

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Kerry Jones
Department of Chemistry, University of Sussex
Astrochemistry: Studying Molecules in Space

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Ida Sey
Brighton & Sussex Medical School
Germ detectives - cracking the case of infections in hospitals.

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Aisha Lawal Shuaibu
School of Engineering and Informatics, University of Sussex
From Healthy to Alzheimer’s: How the Brain’s Shape Changes Over Time

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Prof Evi Soutoglou
School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex
To break or not to break DNA!

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Caley Yardley
Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Sussex
What’s the matter? Smashing apart the Universe at the Large Hadron Collider




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