Current focus · 2026/27
Trinity Access Programmes
Seán will begin collaborating with Trinity Access Programmes in 2026/27 to support its work opening pathways to Trinity for people from socio-economically disadvantaged and under-represented backgrounds.
Approach
Access through participation
Our outreach has included school workshops, public talks, widening-participation programmes, work experience, interactive neuroscience exhibits and conversations about how people learn.
Selected activity
Faculty Access & Participation Strategy
Led access and participation strategy within the University of Bristol Faculty of Science & Engineering.
Access to Bristol
Sessions for 16–18 year-olds on using computer science and engineering mathematics to understand the brain, and on Cognitive AI.
Brain Awareness Week
Public talk on bridging across scales of neuroscience.
Engineering in Neuroscience work experience
Widening-participation classes for students aged 15–17.
Bristol Neuroscience Festival
Lead organiser of the “Neural Networks” exhibit, using computational simulations to explain neural activity across scales to school students and the public.
Stress & the Brain
Talk for Empire Fighting Chance, a charity working with young people affected by deprivation.
Youth neuroscience education in New York
Classes and neuroscience engagement activities with the Center of Excellence in Youth Education, Boys and Girls Harbor School and Eagle Academy.
Podcast
Science of learning
A public-facing conversation about the neuroscience of learning and memory.