Research Leaders
We are seeking projects related to the Twinkle Space Mission (links can be broad) to be delivered by PhD student tutors to groups of sixth-form pupils.
We are seeking projects related to the Twinkle Space Mission (links can be broad) to be delivered by PhD student tutors to groups of sixth-form pupils.
For more information or if you are interested in being part of ORBYTS, please contact orbyts@twinkle-spacemission.co.uk
Key Benefits for Research Leads
Key Benefits for Research Leads
- Publicise your research
- Advertise your university department and research to exceptional school students who may be interested in applying.
- Demonstrate public engagement, outreach and community ties, relevant for the REF case studies.
- Develop the research, leadership and communication skills of your PhD students
- Obtain assistance in performing low priority research, e.g. follow-up studies, cataloging, database construction, data analysis etc.
- Help address diversity issues in the sciences
- Foster a mentality of creative problem solving, innovation and entrepreneurship within schools and the local community.
What we can provide
What we can provide
- Support in developing an ORBYTS project, based on our extensive experience in the area
- Support in finding tutors, funding, schools and forging successful partnerships
- Collaborations with and connections to the Twinkle Space Mission
- Support in conducting related research into science education
Current projects include
Current projects include
- Collation of assigned rotationally-resolved spectroscopic data for astrophysically important molecules, then use of computer program to extract energy levels from transitions.
- Collation of molecular constants for diatomic molecules.
Potential topics of interest include
- Exoplanetary science
- Stellar astrophysics
- Atmospheric science
- Planetary science
- Astrobiology
- Atomic and molecular physics
- Engineering for space missions
- Big data, including collation, analysis and visualisation
- Public engagement and citizen science