{"id":831,"date":"2023-05-05T11:02:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T11:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.am.qub.ac.uk\/wp\/antimatter\/?p=831"},"modified":"2023-05-05T11:02:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T11:02:34","slug":"community-physics-engaging-young-people-not-in-education-employment-or-learning-with-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/2023\/05\/05\/community-physics-engaging-young-people-not-in-education-employment-or-learning-with-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"Community physics: mutual engagement between physicists and young people not in education, employment or learning on Springboard programme."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dermot had the pleasure to be part of a 3-day scheme that brought together about 20 young people (15-21 year olds) not in education, employment or training who are part of an inclusive and cross community Springboard\/Belong programme for mutual engagement with a small number of physicists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As well as jumping into the numerous activities and helping explain physics demonstrations, Dermot discussed the barriers he faced (as a Belfast-born first-generation University student) to his entry into physics, who physicists are and what they do, and listened to the stories the young people had to tell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Springboard <a href=\"https:\/\/springboard-opps.org\/\">https:\/\/springboard-opps.org\/<\/a> is a charity &#8220;committed to building a society that develops and strengthens capacity, promotes citizenship, better values diversity and encourages mutual respect&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event was facilitated by the<em> cohension and integration network &#8220;Belong&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.belongnetwork.co.uk\"> https:\/\/www.belongnetwork.co.uk<\/a>.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dermot had the pleasure to be part of a 3-day scheme that brought together about 20 young people (15-21 year olds) not in education, employment or training who are part of an inclusive and cross community Springboard\/Belong programme for mutual engagement with a small number of physicists. As well as jumping into the numerous activities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1558,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}