Warwick Chemistry has an active outreach programme for both primary and secondary schools, which is sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Coordinated by our enthusiastic outreach officer Nick Barker our academic staff, researchers and PhD students get involved in chemistry-based scientific activities with 2500 schoolkids and pupils per year.

We invite groups of school students to our Department for days in the teaching laboratories, tours, tutorials and workshops and we are happy to visit schools to give lectures about some of the research going on here or to teach the fundamentals of the subject to younger students as part of a practical demonstration lecture.

We work with school students aged from six to eighteen years old.  The typical group sizes that visit the department are 30 for a day in the laboratories and 15 or fewer for workshops and tutorials.   Lectures can be given to audiences of any size.  The Royal Society of Chemistry's sponsorship ensures that we do not currently charge for our outreach activities. However, it would be great if you could make a small voluntary contribution of 2 GBP per school pupil for practical laboratory based exercises.

If you would like to have more information about our range of practical activities and / or our school lectures get in touch with: