(Un)Ethical Science: A Cambridge Walking Tour
The team at KCESP approached Uncomfortable Tours in the spring of 2025, with the idea of collaborating on a new walking tour on ‘Un(ethical) Science’. …
Early Public Engagement
Community Engagement in Sickle Cell Research
PhD candidate Lydia Okoibhole explores how communities affected by sickle cell disease engage with emerging genomic technologies and the ethical questions they raise. Her project co-produces …
Abbey People Eager Explorers 2024: ‘Wonder Wall’
Led by Dr. Catherine Galloway and Dr. Mariam Rashid As part of our long-term mission to connect with the Abbey community — a district in …
The Hopes and Fears Lab at the Alumni Festival 2025
It seems incredible to us that the very first Hopes and Fears Lab took place at the Cambridge University Alumni Festival in September 2022. The …
Eager Explorers 2025: Wonder Dome
Science is, at its heart, curiosity. Scientists are wonderers, and that is something we all have in common. This has been the driving principle shaping …
The Hopes and Fears Lab at the EUSea Conference
The European Science Engagement Association, EUSea, hosted their annual conference from the 14th – 15th of May, 2025. We were delighted to have our proposal, …
The Hopes and Fears Lab: Copper Kettle
The Copper Kettle has an incredibly rich history; established in the early 1900s, and sitting opposite King’s College in the heart of Cambridge, this may …
The AI Hopes and Fears Lab @ The Copper Kettle Cafe
The noise around Artificial Intelligence is fast approaching a deafening (and often contradictory) roar. So how do we cut through all the chatter and create …
The AI Hopes and Fears Lab: The People’s Panel on AI
The Hopes and Fears Lab, our flagship engagement project, went on tour in October and November 2023 to Parker’s Piece in Cambridge, and then on …
The Hopes and Fears Lab on Double Decker Buses
Have you ever wandered through the park on your way to work and spotted two vintage double decker buses improbably parked on the greenery? That’s …