How to engage more students with science

‘Science – it’s pretty useless, innit?’ is a sentiment heard all too often from students who find the subject boring and irrelevant to their daily lives. Considerable resources have been poured into engaging more students from a wider range of backgrounds with science, and these have often been directed at making science more fun and interesting.

However, these efforts do not address the root causes of an important issue. Indeed, evidence from the ASPIRES and ASPIRES2 projects highlight that many students do find science interesting and consider it to be valuable, yet only a few aspire to science-related careers.

Read on to discover ideas to help engage more students with science