Faye Watson
@fwatson.bsky.social
Public Engagement Consultant | Chair of ScotPEN | Churchill Fellow | Trustee | Passionate about Health Equity | All round nerd 🧠
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Back home after a very successful two weeks co-managing the events programme for Orkney Science Festival with @fwatson.bsky.social
One night in my own bed before I'm away again to Liverpool for the British Science Festival
Its never ending 😅
One night in my own bed before I'm away again to Liverpool for the British Science Festival
Its never ending 😅
September 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Back home after a very successful two weeks co-managing the events programme for Orkney Science Festival with @fwatson.bsky.social
One night in my own bed before I'm away again to Liverpool for the British Science Festival
Its never ending 😅
One night in my own bed before I'm away again to Liverpool for the British Science Festival
Its never ending 😅
I gained a new one recently
August 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I gained a new one recently
So proud of Hana!!! It’s going to be fab to see what she does with this role 😄
Leaving my 10th BIG Event as the incoming Chair of @big-stem-network.bsky.social
Not bad for someone who was told SciComm was probably ‘too competitive a career for someone like you’ 15 years ago.
Here’s to the next year of BIG!
Not bad for someone who was told SciComm was probably ‘too competitive a career for someone like you’ 15 years ago.
Here’s to the next year of BIG!
July 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
So proud of Hana!!! It’s going to be fab to see what she does with this role 😄
It was such a joy to finally get to present alongside these two wonderful people @hanaayoob.co.uk and Ajwan’g Okeyo!
I really enjoyed delving into global politics with them in our session “Truth, Lies and Power” #BIGEvent25
I really enjoyed delving into global politics with them in our session “Truth, Lies and Power” #BIGEvent25
July 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
It was such a joy to finally get to present alongside these two wonderful people @hanaayoob.co.uk and Ajwan’g Okeyo!
I really enjoyed delving into global politics with them in our session “Truth, Lies and Power” #BIGEvent25
I really enjoyed delving into global politics with them in our session “Truth, Lies and Power” #BIGEvent25
HIRE KHALIL!!! He’s amazing and also saved my bacon in June by picking up a difficult presenting role last minute and smashing it out the park by being amazing and a lovely human to work with!!
🚨I'M LOOKING FOR WORK!🚨
If you need any of the following, hit me up:
🎤 hosting/presenting/facilitation (events/podcasts/video)
📋 creative production (e.g. events/podcasts/exhibitions)
🧩 game design (science or otherwise)
😆 comedy (science or otherwise)
🎓 communication training
khalilthirlaway.com
If you need any of the following, hit me up:
🎤 hosting/presenting/facilitation (events/podcasts/video)
📋 creative production (e.g. events/podcasts/exhibitions)
🧩 game design (science or otherwise)
😆 comedy (science or otherwise)
🎓 communication training
khalilthirlaway.com
Khalil Thirlaway
www.khalilthirlaway.com
July 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
HIRE KHALIL!!! He’s amazing and also saved my bacon in June by picking up a difficult presenting role last minute and smashing it out the park by being amazing and a lovely human to work with!!
As someone who grew up watching the Royal Institution Christmas lectures, it’s amazing to finally get to sit in the Faraday lecture theatre. What’s struck me is how much smaller it is in person… which makes their lectures all that more impressive!!
#BIGEvent25
#BIGEvent25
July 17, 2025 at 10:10 AM
As someone who grew up watching the Royal Institution Christmas lectures, it’s amazing to finally get to sit in the Faraday lecture theatre. What’s struck me is how much smaller it is in person… which makes their lectures all that more impressive!!
#BIGEvent25
#BIGEvent25
Happy to accept the #BIGEvent25 photo challenge!
Great to be here among so many colleagues and friends!
Great to be here among so many colleagues and friends!
July 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Happy to accept the #BIGEvent25 photo challenge!
Great to be here among so many colleagues and friends!
Great to be here among so many colleagues and friends!
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These are still quite a long way from breaking even (maybe calling out poor 'allies' isn't the best way to sell pins about allyship??) so any shares would be much appreciated! canopyrobin.etsy.com
July 4, 2025 at 9:47 PM
These are still quite a long way from breaking even (maybe calling out poor 'allies' isn't the best way to sell pins about allyship??) so any shares would be much appreciated! canopyrobin.etsy.com
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Are you someone with some leftover budget that needs spent before the end of the financial year?
I am trainer, event producer and performer who could make cool things happen for you!
All the things I do, in one little place 👇
samsighs.carrd.co
I am trainer, event producer and performer who could make cool things happen for you!
All the things I do, in one little place 👇
samsighs.carrd.co
Sam Langford
Professional science communicator, performer and producer
samsighs.carrd.co
March 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Are you someone with some leftover budget that needs spent before the end of the financial year?
I am trainer, event producer and performer who could make cool things happen for you!
All the things I do, in one little place 👇
samsighs.carrd.co
I am trainer, event producer and performer who could make cool things happen for you!
All the things I do, in one little place 👇
samsighs.carrd.co
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Introduction to Science Communication
If you or your colleagues are looking to get into the world of scicomm, this online training session is for you!
I've over 10 years experience, and LOTS to share! I know budgets are tight, so I'm keeping the price low!
www.eventbrite.com/e/an-introdu...
If you or your colleagues are looking to get into the world of scicomm, this online training session is for you!
I've over 10 years experience, and LOTS to share! I know budgets are tight, so I'm keeping the price low!
www.eventbrite.com/e/an-introdu...
February 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Introduction to Science Communication
If you or your colleagues are looking to get into the world of scicomm, this online training session is for you!
I've over 10 years experience, and LOTS to share! I know budgets are tight, so I'm keeping the price low!
www.eventbrite.com/e/an-introdu...
If you or your colleagues are looking to get into the world of scicomm, this online training session is for you!
I've over 10 years experience, and LOTS to share! I know budgets are tight, so I'm keeping the price low!
www.eventbrite.com/e/an-introdu...
Excited to start as Public & Community Engagement Lead for the FIND ME project this week. Family Interventions iN Dementia Mental health Environments aims to co-design evidence-based strategies to improve how Mental Health Wards involve & support carers & improve outcomes for people with dementia.
February 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Excited to start as Public & Community Engagement Lead for the FIND ME project this week. Family Interventions iN Dementia Mental health Environments aims to co-design evidence-based strategies to improve how Mental Health Wards involve & support carers & improve outcomes for people with dementia.
Please can someone also copyedit fiction written about Scotland by someone who’s not Scottish…
what if I start a side hustle copyediting fiction books for British or American authors writing books set in the other country. nothing yanks me out of a story faster than a random ass polytech having ‘frat parties’
February 3, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Please can someone also copyedit fiction written about Scotland by someone who’s not Scottish…
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An emergency waiver will allow the continuation of PEPFAR to continue providing lifesaving HIV treatment to 20 million people worldwide.
We are at a key moment in the struggle, with new tools to treat and prevent HIV.
Now is not the time to halt efforts, now is the time to end the HIV epidemic.
We are at a key moment in the struggle, with new tools to treat and prevent HIV.
Now is not the time to halt efforts, now is the time to end the HIV epidemic.
January 30, 2025 at 8:29 AM
An emergency waiver will allow the continuation of PEPFAR to continue providing lifesaving HIV treatment to 20 million people worldwide.
We are at a key moment in the struggle, with new tools to treat and prevent HIV.
Now is not the time to halt efforts, now is the time to end the HIV epidemic.
We are at a key moment in the struggle, with new tools to treat and prevent HIV.
Now is not the time to halt efforts, now is the time to end the HIV epidemic.
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🧵 STATEMENT: WHO expresses deep concern on the implications of the immediate funding pause for #HIV programmes in low- and middle-income countries.
These programmes provide access to life-saving HIV therapy to more than 30 million people worldwide.
Read more bit.ly/42yxxIz
1/5
These programmes provide access to life-saving HIV therapy to more than 30 million people worldwide.
Read more bit.ly/42yxxIz
1/5
January 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
🧵 STATEMENT: WHO expresses deep concern on the implications of the immediate funding pause for #HIV programmes in low- and middle-income countries.
These programmes provide access to life-saving HIV therapy to more than 30 million people worldwide.
Read more bit.ly/42yxxIz
1/5
These programmes provide access to life-saving HIV therapy to more than 30 million people worldwide.
Read more bit.ly/42yxxIz
1/5
This includes a lot of people I met in Botswana and South Africa, and the funding for a lot of organisations who support them 😭
Trump has introduced an immediate halt to all work on PEPFAR (the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, set up by George W Bush).
This includes the HIV treatment provided to 20 million people through PEPFAR, people who will die without treatment.
And many more will acquire HIV as a result.
This includes the HIV treatment provided to 20 million people through PEPFAR, people who will die without treatment.
And many more will acquire HIV as a result.
January 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This includes a lot of people I met in Botswana and South Africa, and the funding for a lot of organisations who support them 😭
Please sign and share!
It’s literally ridiculous considering how basically all mainstream wards are mixed gender anyway… the amount of crusty old men that wandered into my room when I was awaiting gallbladder surgery are the real threat 😖
It’s literally ridiculous considering how basically all mainstream wards are mixed gender anyway… the amount of crusty old men that wandered into my room when I was awaiting gallbladder surgery are the real threat 😖
Friends, a petition I've created to go to Parliament for the protection of Trans Healthcare in the UK has just gone live. If you are in the United Kingdom, please sign and share this. If you are not in the United Kingdom, please share it.
#Trans #LGBTQ #UK
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
#Trans #LGBTQ #UK
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Do not stop transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards
The previous government proposed changes to the NHS constitution which would mean transgender hospital patients in England may not be treated in female- and male-only wards. We believe that this segre...
petition.parliament.uk
January 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Please sign and share!
It’s literally ridiculous considering how basically all mainstream wards are mixed gender anyway… the amount of crusty old men that wandered into my room when I was awaiting gallbladder surgery are the real threat 😖
It’s literally ridiculous considering how basically all mainstream wards are mixed gender anyway… the amount of crusty old men that wandered into my room when I was awaiting gallbladder surgery are the real threat 😖
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If you're thinking of applying for a Masters in Public Health & have experience of inequality, consider applying for the IMPACT Scholarship at UCL.
Happy to answer any questions you have!
www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology...
Happy to answer any questions you have!
www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology...
The IMPACT Scholarship
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 4, 2025 at 5:35 AM
If you're thinking of applying for a Masters in Public Health & have experience of inequality, consider applying for the IMPACT Scholarship at UCL.
Happy to answer any questions you have!
www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology...
Happy to answer any questions you have!
www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology...
Super excited to share the launch of collaborACTION - a public and community engagement consultancy focussed on building connections, inspiring change and taking action in partnership with underserved communities in the UK and beyond.
www.collabor-action.co.uk
www.collabor-action.co.uk
collaborACTION
www.collabor-action.co.uk
January 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Super excited to share the launch of collaborACTION - a public and community engagement consultancy focussed on building connections, inspiring change and taking action in partnership with underserved communities in the UK and beyond.
www.collabor-action.co.uk
www.collabor-action.co.uk
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Sharing again for the evening crowd :)
I put a game on sale today, and would love folk to help share if you can!
I put a game on sale today, and would love folk to help share if you can!
Our Mutual Friend ❤️
A game about friendship, growing up & saying goodbye is out now!
You’re all in your clubhouse for the last time, & one of you notices that your mutual friend has begun to fade. Is this the last night you’ll spend with them?
🔗 ko-fi.com/s/a8b0b0d493
🔗 samsighs.itch.io
A game about friendship, growing up & saying goodbye is out now!
You’re all in your clubhouse for the last time, & one of you notices that your mutual friend has begun to fade. Is this the last night you’ll spend with them?
🔗 ko-fi.com/s/a8b0b0d493
🔗 samsighs.itch.io
Our Mutual Friend - TTRPG - Sam Sighs's Ko-fi Shop
Our Mutual Friend is a roleplaying game for 3 - 5 players, that requires a deck of playing cards and a 6-sided dice.
In this game, you and your group...
ko-fi.com
December 30, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Sharing again for the evening crowd :)
I put a game on sale today, and would love folk to help share if you can!
I put a game on sale today, and would love folk to help share if you can!
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Great oppportunity to work with the Fleming Fund fellowships tackling #AMR in eastern and southern Africa - apply by 10 January 2025!
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
@bachmanntill.bsky.social @uoe-eid.bsky.social
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
@bachmanntill.bsky.social @uoe-eid.bsky.social
December 20, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Great oppportunity to work with the Fleming Fund fellowships tackling #AMR in eastern and southern Africa - apply by 10 January 2025!
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
@bachmanntill.bsky.social @uoe-eid.bsky.social
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
@bachmanntill.bsky.social @uoe-eid.bsky.social
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I still have availability for public engagement and science communication work in 2025, including content creation, training and presenting work!
You can check out everything I offer below
samsighsoffer.carrd.co
I am very good at it, even if I do say so myself. Please share to boost visibility :)
You can check out everything I offer below
samsighsoffer.carrd.co
I am very good at it, even if I do say so myself. Please share to boost visibility :)
What I Offer
Professional science communicator, performer and producer
samsighsoffer.carrd.co
December 5, 2024 at 3:48 PM
I still have availability for public engagement and science communication work in 2025, including content creation, training and presenting work!
You can check out everything I offer below
samsighsoffer.carrd.co
I am very good at it, even if I do say so myself. Please share to boost visibility :)
You can check out everything I offer below
samsighsoffer.carrd.co
I am very good at it, even if I do say so myself. Please share to boost visibility :)
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We humbly interrupt your scroll to bring you the news that Wisdom—the world's oldest known wild bird—is breeding again, age 74.
Go on girl. 😍
Go on girl. 😍
December 4, 2024 at 11:49 AM
We humbly interrupt your scroll to bring you the news that Wisdom—the world's oldest known wild bird—is breeding again, age 74.
Go on girl. 😍
Go on girl. 😍
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📣📣 #PublicEngagement Job Klaxon📣📣 Fancy joining the team at the Public Engagement Unit? Come be the @uniofbath.bsky.social's new Deputy Head of Public Engagement. Check out the details of the job and how to apply 👇
blogs.bath.ac.uk/publicengage...
blogs.bath.ac.uk/publicengage...
December 2, 2024 at 7:48 AM
📣📣 #PublicEngagement Job Klaxon📣📣 Fancy joining the team at the Public Engagement Unit? Come be the @uniofbath.bsky.social's new Deputy Head of Public Engagement. Check out the details of the job and how to apply 👇
blogs.bath.ac.uk/publicengage...
blogs.bath.ac.uk/publicengage...
This #WorldAIDSDay I’m excited and nervous to release my podcast detailing my travels and recommendations following my @churchillfship.bsky.social.
Have a watch/listen as I detail how we can build resilient communities affected by blood-borne viruses 👇🏼
m.youtube.com/watch?v=WjSc...
Have a watch/listen as I detail how we can build resilient communities affected by blood-borne viruses 👇🏼
m.youtube.com/watch?v=WjSc...
Faye Watson (2023): Building resilient communities affected by blood-borne viruses
YouTube video by Churchill Fellowship
m.youtube.com
December 1, 2024 at 9:50 AM
This #WorldAIDSDay I’m excited and nervous to release my podcast detailing my travels and recommendations following my @churchillfship.bsky.social.
Have a watch/listen as I detail how we can build resilient communities affected by blood-borne viruses 👇🏼
m.youtube.com/watch?v=WjSc...
Have a watch/listen as I detail how we can build resilient communities affected by blood-borne viruses 👇🏼
m.youtube.com/watch?v=WjSc...