London City of Science
Area covered
We have covered the whole of the area inside the M25. We have sometimes strayed outside the motorway ring to cover places and scientists with strong London links.
Audience
For most of six years the site has attracted a wide audience. Typically there have been about 10 000 unique visitors each month and collectively they have viewed over 100 000 pages. This is now in decline.
The site has been open for scientists and engineers to tell a large public audience about their work and why it is important:
However our experience has been that very few scientists want to contribute that efforts to stimulate contributions have not been successful.
Teaching, learning and enrichment
The site has been used - to a limited extent - in a variety of ways in schools and colleges as described through these links for:
A partnership
The site has been developed by members of the London Region of the Association for Science Education working with the Nuffield Curriculum Centre. Throughout its life the site editor has been Andrew Hunt.
Sponsors
Sponsors of the site included the Nuffield Foundation and the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA)
Origins
The site began as a Science Year project in 2001-2. Science Year has evolved into Planet Science with its lively and varied web site.
