Cornwall Science Community
Connecting science, culture and society
Cornwall Science Community is a group established in 2019 with the aims of
- promoting science as a part of culture and society to the people of Cornwall
- establishing collaborative relationships with other similar groups and institutions
Our ambition is to help increase the number of people who are actively engaged and involved in science in Cornwall – whether they think of themselves as scientists or not.
We run a series of events, open to all, most regularly the café sci (in-person and virtual) and our article series. You can sign up to our mailing list to be kept informed of all our events!
View our most recent and upcoming events and articles below, or look at the full archive here.
- Celebrating 20 years of Cornish Chough | The Cornish Chough Project
Thursday, 6th October 2022 at 7:30pm. Register your interest via Eventbrite. Hilary Mitchell will cover the history of the Cornish Chough, together with insights into the species’ behaviour and where we are today. About our speaker: Hilary Mitchell Hilary is a birder with a keen interest in Cornish geology and is a member of RGSC.… Continue reading Celebrating 20 years of Cornish Chough | The Cornish Chough Project - The Tin Coast: Cornwall’s mining district
Article and photos by Frankie Hackett On the last leg of Cornwall before Lands’ End is a stretch of landscape riddled with mining facilities spanning centuries of technological advancement. Colloquially known as the Tin Coast, the area is rich in its connection to the history of the land. Each facility is deeply tragic in and… Continue reading The Tin Coast: Cornwall’s mining district - Myths of Bodmin Moor
Article by Frankie Hackett. Images courtesy Alex Langstone. The mystifying presence of Bodmin Moor has led tale to thousands of years of folklore and mythology. The fog swept valleys and areas of flat expanse present a sense of unfamiliarity to visitors who are used to the typical enclosures of fields in the rest of England.… Continue reading Myths of Bodmin Moor
Cornwall was once – more than once – at the forefront of industrial and scientific exploration. But ‘now the fish and tin are gone’ (as the songs say), it is the knowledge economy that will take us forward.
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