With the new concept ‘Through the Lenses of Science’, Collab Lab’s upcoming Meet the Scientists event is designed to bring meaningful interactions and engagement opportunities for young people to be able to dialogue and gain deep insight on scientific research as well as build the connection with scientists at OUCRU.
- Explore and understand the comprehensive journey of scientific research while learning about different perspectives and approaches from stakeholders and communities, each of all should be respected and acknowledged.
- Enable two-way feedback with meaningful discussions between scientists and young people. Young participants have opportunities to listen to researchers’ work, their achievements as well as challenges, and learning about their personal experiences that have shaped their scientific careers. Researchers can benefit from firsthand community feedback and questions, helping them refine their research ideas and agenda.
- Young people can also contribute their opinions as a member of the community where research at OUCRU will take place at and affect to. This part is an important step of the process to help OUCRU research become more relevant, thereby create lasting impact in both the scientific community and society as a whole.
Meet the Scientists is an annual event within the Collab Lab project, a youth-led initiative. A passionate team of university students and young professionals collaborate with scientists at OUCRU and partnered institutions to transform their scientific publications into engaging funny animated videos. The project aims to help research papers easier to understand and more accessible to all, especially young people.
Watch Collab Lab’s videos in 2024 here.
Explore more about Collab Lab process and how to get involved here.