Brain Lab: Thinking Tissue

As a leading UK science centre, we are always looking to deliver novel and exciting programmes. Building partnerships is a great way for us to develop and deliver activities that are new for us as well as our audiences.

During March 2015, some of our visitors joined us for our innovative Brain Lab sessions. The project, supported by the Wellcome Trust, explored the impact of using real human tissue on visitors’ learning experiences. We did this through the development and delivery of an immersive workshop to recreate ‘behind the scenes’ science happening in hospital labs to diagnose brain tumours.

Many visitors kindly offered to speak with our evaluators about their experiences. It is thanks to their contributions that we are gathering our findings from the project, and we want to share a summary of some key findings so far...

Brain Lab: Thinking Tissue - key findings

We're currently working on the full report, so if this summary whets your appetite for more, or you have any feedback, please get in touch with the project team: Helen.DellaNave@at-bristol.org.uk and Alice.Barber@at-bristol.org.uk

Brain Lab: Thinking Tissue is a partnership project with Brain Tumour Bank South West based at Southmead Hospital, the Centre for Ethics in Medicine at the University of Bristol, and At-Bristol Science Centre.