LIFELAB VOICES
Summer Term 2025
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Discover what we’ve been getting up to in LifeLab, and find out about all the exciting opportunities we have coming up this term. If you are reading the print version, you can find the ‘Read more’ links on the News and Events section of our website (lifelabonline.org) and social media. Please share this newsletter with colleagues, students and parents.
SCIENCE FESTIVAL FUN WITH FAMILIES We’re proud to have been part of the Southampton Science and Engineering Festival (SOTSEF)
Total number of schools who have participated in LifeLab
17,410
121 Total number of students who have been through the doors at LifeLab
Total number of students participating in Early LifeLab
This takes place each year in March, during British Science Week. Run by the University of Southampton, it includes a free family friendly event.
1071
This year, our activities were all about bones. Visitors could make X-Ray hands, create and label a skeleton, and find out how to keep their bones strong and healthy.
8425 Total number of Developing Talent students
Total number of Youth Panel members
62
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RECORD NUMBERS APPLY FOR YOUTH PANEL We received 160 applications for the Summer Term Youth Panel! The standard was incredibly high, and therefore shortlisting and appointing the panel was very challenging. We have seven students joining us from the 28th April for a joint project all about Ultra Processed Foods, with Caroline Anderson from University Hospital Southampton. This is funded through Wessex Health Partners. We’d encourage anyone who was unsuccessful this time to keep an eye on our social media channels and website for future opportunities..
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Total number of Young Researchers trained
MY TIME AT LIFELAB – 15 YEARS AGO! Gemma Clarke was one of the very first students to attend a LifeLab session, as a year 9 student at Redbridge Community School. Fifteen years later, a chance meeting with LifeLab manager Professor Kath Woods-Townsend caused her to reflect on the programme’s influence on her life. She now has a health-related career, and is looking at ways to improve young people’s health. Read more LIFELABSOUTHAMPTON
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