Future Scientist in Training!

This is a guest post from Ella Ramage, who spent a week with us on work experience, helping us prepare for the exhibit.

Hello! My name is Ella and for the past week, I have been doing work experience, here, at Keele University. I am 14 years old and…

Data collection part 1

I’m writing this on a train going from Newcastle-under-Lyme to Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. We’ll spend the next two and a half days there collecting data for our experiment! My brain is so busy running through checklists and protocols that I can’t even think of a joke to make about the two…

Electric muscles

In an earlier post, I mentioned that we can use the contractions of the hand muscles located in the forearm to control a prosthetic hand. But how do we detect that a muscle is contracting?

Here’s where a technique called electromyography (EMG for short) comes in. It has a…

Our Open Experiment

When I started doing research, I followed a well-travelled path: it starts with a scientific question, followed by the design of an experiment to answer the question, writing the necessary computer code to run the experiment, then data collection and analysis, culminating* in the glory of…

Meet the Team: Helen

This is a guest post from another team member, Helen!

So, Dimitra has asked me to introduce myself on the blog… Hello! I’m Helen and unlike the rest of the team I have a social science background. I’m currently a sessional lecturer in Marketing at Keele.