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  1. Anne Osbourn

    During her NESTA Dream Time, distinguished plant biologist Anne Osbourn developed the Science, Art and Writing (SAW) project to encourage people of all ages to discover and explore science. The output of one SAW pilot project in schools, See Saw (an anth

  2. James O'Neill

    Comedy writer James O'Neill secured a NESTA Fellowship to develop original new work. Happily Never After, a play which he co-wrote, has since been broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

  3. Learning on the move

    NESTA's support meant hand-held computers could be trialled by At-Bristol, Leicester's National Space Centre and The Fitzwilliam Museum (the University of Cambridge?s art museum). The pilot aimed to informe the way learning attractions nationwide use int

  4. Open University, ISOTOPE Project

    The Informing Science Outreach and Public Engagement project - which draws together experts to look at practical ways of engaging people in contemporary science - secured NESTA's support to create a web portal of resources.

  5. Ophthalmos Ltd

    Ophthalmos used NESTA investment to develop an ophthalmoscope to detect serious illnesses such as malaria and diabetes. The award-winning device has gone on to secure marketing clearance in the USA, where the company will pursue commercial opportunities a

  6. Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

    The internationally-acclaimed Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment secured funding for a project to help people better understand both music and science. The work was inspired by scientific explanations of how the world began, as well as by Haydn?s The C

  7. ORS Ltd

    Dr Carl Griffiths used NESTA's investment to develop specialist equipment and software to revolutionise the production of semiconductors used in everyday electronic items. The company he co-founded, ORS Ltd, now enjoys a global reputation for designing an

  8. Outer Space/Inner Space

    With NESTA's support, playwrights Cathy Turner and Phil Smith teamed up with scientists from the School of Physics at Exeter University to create a play which brought physics to life for secondary school pupils.

  9. Patrick O'Kane

    Actor Patrick O'Kane secured a NESTA Fellowship to explore the creative contribution that actors can make to the theatre process.

  10. Spaced Out UK

    NESTA supported Spaced Out UK, a project to create the world's largest scale model of the solar system across 18 schools and visitor attractions in the UK. With nine sites open to the public, the Spaced Out project was officially designated a Site of Spec

  11. Stephen O'Hear

    Multimedia artist and teacher Stephen O'Hear used his NESTA Fellowship to explore the creative potential of new technology in education. He developed CHICAM, a website enabling migrant and refugee children from seven countries to collaborate and produce t

  12. Stephen O'Hear

    Multimedia artist and teacher Stephen O'Hear used his NESTA Fellowship to explore the creative potential of new technology in education. He developed CHICAM, a website enabling migrant and refugee children from seven countries to collaborate and produce t

  13. The Open University in Milton Keynes, The Aspire Pilot

    NESTA supported the Open University's Aspire Pilot, working with 11 to 19 year olds to map out ways that young people learn best and produce a vision for 21st century education at shome (not school, not home but an education system for the Information Age

  14. Theatre of Science, Simon Singh and Richard Wiseman

    Inspired by Victorian scientists, acclaimed science communicators Simon Singh and Richard Wiseman staged entertaining science shows for non-scientific audiences at a central London theatre. Additional shows were then performed at the Edinburgh Fringe. NES

  15. Visions of Science

    NESTA supported the Novartis and The Daily Telegraph Visions of Science photographic awards to share with a wider audience images that challenge perceptions of the world as science meets art.

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