Mathematical Sciences Strand Outreach Work

The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) outreach work for the National HE STEM Programme has broadly fallen into two themes. The first is sharing good practice between HEIs. We have helped HEIs discover good outreach work and supported them to run similar initiatives themselves. The vast majority of those we have supported say that they are keen to run activities in future years. For example, at the University of Salford we supported Dr Edmund Chadwick to run his first Maths at Work Day, with employers delivering sessions for school pupils showing the utility of maths in the workplace. This format (described in [1]) has run successfully at other institutions for a number of years. Pupils are given a potentially life changing insight into jobs involving mathematics, while the organising HEI gets potential recruitment benefits and gains valuable links with employers and alumni.