Professor Adrian Liston focuses on using innovative approaches to scientific outreach to expand the potential audience.

The 'Sensory Science' art exhibit, in collaboration with the legally blind artist Dr Erica Tandori, aims to communicate science in a way that is more inclusive to people with disabilities, with a particular focus on the blind and low vision community. The project brings together scientific researchers with the artists outreach program to generate new multisensory art, and to guide the blind and low vision community through the research underlying the piece.

In a series of children’s books, 'Just for Kids! All about Coronavirus', 'Maya’s Marvellous Medicine' and 'Battle Robots of the Blood', Professor Liston teamed up with scientific illustrator Dr Sonia Agüera-Gonzalez to entertain young children while also teaching them about the immune system and the importance of vaccination.

The VirusFighter program, funded through Orion Open Society and the British Society of Immunology, partnered the Liston laboratory with the Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology to create an online video game that allows you to take the role of UK Prime Minister during a pandemic, making decisions in response to a real-time crisis and the limited scientific information available to you. About our innovative outreach projects.

About our innovative outreach projects

Ongoing projects include writing and illustrating graphic novels on the pathways to enter science. By focusing on the diverse pathways to success from current lab members, we aim to show high school children that science really can be for everyone.

We are also drafting a graphic novel on multiple sclerosis (MS). Written from the compassionate perspective of a patient-scientist, the novel is aimed at young adults diagnosed with MS, and struggling to understand the biology of the disease, and how treatments work. We aim to expand the Sensory Science program into an annual event, and spread the program into new sites. About our innovative outreach projects.

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We seek to raise £3500 for the 'Becoming a Scientist' graphic novel, and £5000 for the 'Living with Multiple Sclerosis' graphic novel. If we raise a further £4,000 we will run the Sensory Science program again in 2025, and if we raise a further £10,000 we will expand the outreach program in 2026.