21/05/2026
Our School of Life Sciences recently hosted its 23rd annual event in collaboration with Science4u to inspire Year 9-11 students from London schools to study science. This year’s theme, Science for Sports, focused on unlocking human potential and learning from each other 🙌
The Annual Schools Science Conference, science4u, was launched in 2003 to inspire pupils from London to study science through demonstrating its importance in everyday life and showcasing future career options. Its success was recognised in 2020 when it was awarded The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service 🏆
Our university has hosted the event since 2015 and welcomes 350 students and their teachers from secondary schools across London each year. The schools are joined by 80-100 scientists from organisations including the NHS, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Charity, the Institute of Biomedical Science, as well as a range of universities and pharmaceutical companies 💫
This year’s theme focused on unlocking human potential and exploring how the body’s systems – muscular, skeletal, respiratory, cardiovascular and neurological – work together to fuel peak athletic performance and how that knowledge can inform us about health more generally. Held in April at our Cavendish Campus, the day had a range of interactive demonstrations, displays, workshops, lectures and presentations revealing how healthcare scientists are the hidden champions behind both top-tier athletes and everyday wellbeing, from game-changing technologies and sports psychology to nutrition, physiotherapy and injury prevention 💛
The event was sponsored by A. Menarini Farmaceutica Internazionale SRL, the Philip King Charitable Trust and the Strand Parishes Trust. It was also supported by GE HealthCare, Globe Locums, Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity, Mast Group, Miltenyi Biotec, STEM Ambassadors, STEM Learning, the UK Health Security Agency and una health, whose contributions make the conference possible each year 👏
🔗 Find out more about our collaboration with science4u: https://bit.ly/3RSBapi