The Creative Science Centre

talks and workshops	Publications	Things to make	Jonathan's Bio page

The Creative Science Centre plays a key role in helping and guiding creative science projects and workshops in schools. A major aim is to get more people to make things within science and offer science talks, workshops and projects to schools, colleges and the general public. This web site (The Creative Science Centre) is a sort of 'scrap book' of interesting science, I hope you find it so.

The CSC (Dr. Jonathan Hare) currently runs G and T workshops as part of David Daniels work. David is an award winning science teacher and Head of Physics at Hove Park School. Jonathan is a freelance research scientist who has worked on C60 in the Sussex Fullerene Centre with Prof. Sir Harry Kroto (the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry). Jonathan is also a member of the BBC TV Rough Science team, see TV work.

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Jonathan is part of the BLAST planning team, an OU outreach activity aimed at using its BBC TV and other broadcast programs within workshops and talks. We have developed workshops to go around the uk via science festivals (e.g. cheltenham sci fest., BA fest., Science museum ...). These include the Rough Science Rover and Windmill Workshops.

We are currently working with the Vega Science Trust looking into the use of the internet to run e-w/s (workshops) and to provide on-line follow-up activities after workshops. We would like to thank The Astronomy and Physics Dept at Sussex University for the use of the lab space for this work and for all their support.

Jonathan Hare would like to thank the many groups, individuals and societies that have supported the CSC including of course the Vega Science Trust and The University of Sussex (Harry Kroto, Philip Parsons, Robert Smith), NESTA, The Royal Society (COPUS), The Salters Institute, Hewlett Packard and Sony UK. He would especialy like to thank Pete Simmons and Phil Chitty (Computing Services, University of Sussex) for their help, enthusiasm and much needed support, without which much of this work would not have been possible.

Jonathan is a member of the Institute of Physics (IOP), Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB).

Jonathan (G1EXG) has been a licenced radio amateur since 1984.

In 2000 Jonathan was awarded a NESTA Fellowship.

In 2002 Jonathan was awarded an IOP Public Awareness of Physics Award.

In October 2006 Jonathan was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

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NOTE: Although none of the experiments shown in this site represent a great hazard, neither the Creative Science Centre, Jonathan Hare or The University of Sussex can take responsiblity for your own experiments based on these web pages.