Public engagement

IPEM works to raise awareness and understanding of medical physics and biomedical engineering and to encourage dialogue between our profession, patients and the public. 

Most of our outreach work is delivered by our members, who volunteer their own time to take part in careers fairs, hospital open days, schools talks or other events. To help them, we provide outreach advice and ready-made activities.  

We regularly contribute to national events, such as the Big Bang Fair,  and “I’m a scientist, get me out of here” which are held in March every year.

IPEM also provides schools resources and support for various key stages, as well as careers information for school pupils and university students.

If you would like to get involved with IPEM's outreach programme please contact eva@ipem.ac.uk 

 

Vacancies on the Public Engagement Committee

We currently have volunteer vacancies on the Public Engagement Committee.  If you are interested in joining, you can read the role description and download the application form. 

Public lectures

IPEM helps to organise and support public lectures on medical physics and biomedical engineering topics. These are held around the country, in collaboration with other outreach organisations.  

 

	8 September 2021 Advances in Cancer Care The Peter Wells Memorial Lecture A joint online lecture with King's College London
	16 September 2021 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Webinar chair: Dr Eduardo Alonso, Director Artificial Intelligence Research Centre, City University of London Register here The third in a series of free webinars organised by IPEM and City University of London
	17 June 2021 Cyber Security in Healthcare Webinar chair: Professor Raj Rajarajan, Director for Cyber Security, City University of London  Register here The second in a series of free webinars organised by IPEM and City University of London
	18 March 2021 Sensor Technologies in Healthcare Webinar chair: Professor Stephen O'Connor, IPEM President Register here The first in a series of free webinars organised by IPEM and City University of London
Past lectures in 2020
	9 December 2020 The ups and downs of machine learning for prosthetic control Dr Kia Nazarpour, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh  The Peter Wells Memorial Lecture A joint webinar organised by IPEM, IET and iMechE
Past lectures in 2019
	12 November 2019 Artificial Intelligence & Medical Physics Open Lecture A joint lecture organised by IPEM and King's College London Register here
	2 May 2019 Professor Molly Stevens, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London Designing materials to heal the body and detect disease earlier The Peter Wells Memorial Lecture A joint public lecture organised by IPEM, IET and IMechE IMechE, London
Past lectures in 2018
	28 November 2018 Professor Robert Speller, Joel Professor of Physics Applied to Medicine, University College London A Brief History of My Time - from Space Science to Radiation Physics UCL Events
	15 September 2018 Dr Heather Williams, Principal Medical Physicist, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust Physics Gets to the Heart of the Matter Hull Science Festival
	11 September 2018 Professor Andy Beavis, Head of Radiation Physics, Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Jenny Marsden, Higher Principal Physicist, Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Dr Craig Moore, Clinical Scientist, Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust Imaging a brighter future for cancer care British Science Festival
	16 June 2018 Dr Tim Adlam, Senior Engineer at Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust and Head of Mechanical Engineering at Designability, a research and development charity Artificial Intelligence for Health York Festival of Ideas
	5 June 2018   Dr Cormac McGrath, lead MRI Clinical Scientist for the Northern Ireland Regional Medical Physics Service Child’s Eye Virtual Reality View of a Hospital Visit   York Festival of Ideas
	23 May 2018             Professor Alison Noble, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford Human Image Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, and Shifting Perceptions of Medical Ultrasound             The Peter Wells Memorial Lecture A joint public lecture organised by IPEM, IET and IMechE IET London: Savoy Place
	27 February 2018 Professor Anthony Barker, University of Sheffield Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation - Reaching The Parts Other Stimulators Cannot Reach Yorkshire Philosophical Society's Lecture Series
Past lectures in 2017
	29 October 2017 Professor Mark Tooley, IPEM President From AI To Big Data: Can Technology Save the NHS?  Battle of Ideas  The Barbican, London
	16 June 2017 Professor David Howard, Head of Electronic Engineering, Royal Holloway University of London The Story of Human Speech and Hearing York Festival of Ideas
	28 February 2017 Jenny Marsden, Principal Clinical Scientist, Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals University of York Physics Society
Past lectures in 2016
	3 September 2016 Jenny Marsden,Principal Clinical Scientist, Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Radiotherapy Physics! Find out how scientists use X-rays to target cancer cells and cure patients SoapboxScience Hull
	8 June 2016   Public lecture: Professor Anthony Barker, Sheffield York Festival of Ideas
	2 March 2016 Professor David Brettle Current and future advances in Medical Physics and Engineering Ebor Probus Club
	12 January 2016 Professor Wendy Tindale Devices for Dignity : Innovative medical technologies across the age spectrum York Philosophical Society's Lecture Series

If you would like IPEM to provide a public talk on a subject related to medical physics or biomedical engineering, please contact sean@ipem.ac.uk.

 

International Days of Medical Physics and Radiology

  The International Day of Medical Physics (7 November) marks the birth of Marie Curie, 

  whilst the 

  International Day of Radiology (8 November) marks the anniversary of Roentgen’s discovery of X-rays. 

Global Clinical Engineers Day

This event, which takes place every year on the 21 October, recognises the contribution of clinical engineers.  

Every year there are a number of events and activities that take place around the world.  To see the list of activities please click here

Other activities

Our free publications for the public seek to explain the work of our members and the science that lies behind it.

We also seek to promote the work that our members do and the science behind it via the media.

IPEM supports national organisations that meet our public engagement objectives. In 2016-2017 these are: The Voice of Young Science, the Science Media Centre and the British Society for the History of Radiology.