The Open Wide project at the Birmingham Dental Hospital and School of Dentistry, University of Birmingham is an exhibition space featuring the research and work of the staff and students. The current exhibition called Dancing […]
Category: Public Engagement
Research at the Heart of Brum
The School of Dentistry took part in a Public engagement display called Research at the Heart of Brum. The exhibition took place on a busy Saturday in October. It was centrally placed under the departure […]
Slime Cities and Arts Science Festival
All week Open Wide has been hosting workshops in the foyer as part of the University’s Arts and Science Festival (https://artsandsciencefestival.co.uk/). Visitors, staff and students have been making felt microbes to take home or to […]
Open Wide exhibition: Microbe Mouth opening 14th June
The very first Open Wide exhibition will start on the 14th June. This will feature research by Dr Rachel Sammons and an art science collaboration between Rachel and Dr Melissa Grant and bioartist Anna Dumitriu. […]
Open Wide “LIVE”
The consultation for Open Wide has gone live today and right now we’d love your input for designing the identity that will feed into a logo for Open Wide. Please visit the display on the […]
Open Wide – Alumni Impact Fund
I am excited to announce that the School of Dentistry has been awarded funding from the Alumni Impact Fund to start a public engagement project called Open Wide. The funding will allow us to have […]
@ the V & A
Ingenious and Fearless Companions at the V&A Following on from their successful ‘Ingenious and Fearless Companions’ exhibition at Birmingham Open Media (BOM) earlier in the year the High Altitude Bioprospecting (HAB) team, including Dr Melissa […]
Hong Kong Visitors
The school was visited by Dr May L Mei Post-doctoral Fellow and Honorary Assistant Professor at Hong Kong who is undertaking research at the University of Edinburgh. She took time off from her research to visit […]
Microbe Mouth
On Tuesday 5th July Rachel Sammons and Melissa Grant headed down to London for the ‘Into the Orifice’ launch event for the Science Gallery London’s Mouthy season. Working with artist Anna Dumitriu, the team are […]
Bubbles that clean teeth
Adapted from the University of Birmingham web site Research into the science behind ultrasonic scalers, used by dental professionals to remove built up plaque, has identified that the formation of tiny bubbles around the head is […]
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