Scouse Science October 2021

Scouse Science at the Liverpool Literary Festival

1:30pm - 2:30pm / Monday 11th October 2021
Type: Seminar / Category: Department / Series: Scouse Science Live Video Podcast with Professor Tom Solomon
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Join Prof Tom Solomon, Dr Rachel Clarke and Dr Gavin Francis for a Liverpool Literary Festival special episode of Scouse Science

This special episode of the Scouse Science podcast is being held in conjunction with the Liverpool Literary Festival and will be the first in the series to take place in front of a live audience! This event will have two ticket types: in person and online. Please see below for more information:

IN PERSON:
We have a limited number of tickets available for guests to join the Scouse Science panel in person at the Liverpool Science Park!

Tickets for in person guests will be £6 full price and £4 for concessions. More information regarding eligibility for concession tickets can be found at the bottom of this page.

A book signing will follow the event and will run until 3.15pm with books available to purchase on the day.

Guests with in person tickets should arrive no later than 1.15pm.


ONLINE:
The event will be streamed FREE via Zoom and the University of Liverpool Facebook page.

Registered guests will receive details of the event and, nearer the time, the Zoom link via email in advance of the event. A Facebook account is NOT required to gain access to the event via the University of Liverpool Facebook page. Instructions will be provided to all who register for this event.


Prof Tom Solomon will be joined by two fantastic medical authors, Dr Rachel Clarke and Dr Gavin Francis, who have both released best-selling books during the pandemic.

NHS doctor, Rachel Clarke, is the author of the Sunday Times best-selling book 'Breathtaking', an insider's account of medicine in the time of coronavirus, based on Clarke’s own experiences working on frontline NHS Covid-19 wards. You can follower her on Twitter @doctor_oxford.

NHS GP, Gavin Francis, is the author of 'Intensive Care', a deeply personal account of nine months spent caring for a society in crisis. Gavin Francis is a GP who works in both urban and rural communities, splitting his time between Edinburgh and the islands of Orkney. You can follow him on Twitter @gavinfranc.

Professor Tom Solomon is Director of the UK's Emerging Infections Research Unit based as the University of Liverpool, is on the NHS front line at the Walton Neuro Centre and Royal Liverpool University Hospital, and appears regularly on television and radio discussing science. You can follow him @RunningMadProf on Twitter.

Holly Ellis really is a Scouse Scientist. Having studied undergraduate Biological Sciences at Oxford University, she’s now a Clinical Scientist in Genomics with the NHS. You can follow her @ScientistScouse on Twitter, and find original content on her YouTube channel, The Scouse Scientist.