I hope to maintain here a list of sites that offer science videos to the public, often on YouTube.
| General Science | |
| The Royal Society |
The prestigious Royal Society's YouTube channel with a wide ranging set of short and long videos about science. |
| The Royal Institution |
The Royal Institution has a very long history of public engagement not limited to the famous Christmas Lectures to Children. |
| Cheltenham Science Festival @home |
In 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, all the science festival lectures will be streamed on YouTube. |
| Bath University "Minerva" series of lectures. |
Bath University public outreach series, covering the range of topics researched at Bath, which is largely science/engineering/economics based. The link on the left takes you to the Vimeo site containing past lecture. You can see the future programme and register for alerts at https://www.bath.ac.uk/campaigns/minerva-series-of-lectures/ . |
| http://www.infocobuild.com/education/education.html |
Lists sources of public lectures and courses. |
| Astronomy and Planetary Science | |
| Royal Astronomical Society Videos |
The RAS YouTube channel containing a mixture of short and long videos on astronomical topics. Some of these are aimed at the general public and some at professionals. These may be a useful background research resource for astronomy related projects. |
| Cambridge Institute of Astronomy |
Videos of public talks from the Institute of Astronomy. |
| Kavli Institute for Cosmology |
A monthly science podcast from Cambridge. |
| Stanford Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics with Cosmology . |
This is their Public Lecture series - now all on YouTube. See this link for a more extensive series of lectures. |
| UCL Dept. of Physics and Astronomy |
Public lectures from University College London aimed at teachers and sixth formers. |
| http://www.exocast.org |
A series of audio podcasts on exoplanet research, generally aimed at specialist interest, discussing very recent research finding. But very interesting. |
| Biology/Life Sciences | |
| A number of videos dealing with the basics of astrobilogy. | |
| A series of medium length lectures on topics related to synthetic biology | |
| Chemistry | |
| Royal Society of Chemistry |
Short and long videos relating to chemistry. |
| Geosciences | |
| Geological Society Public Lectures |
Videos of public outreach lectures of the UK Geological Society. |
| Oxford Earth Sciences YouTube Channel |
A series of short videos from the Earth Sciences department of Oxford University. |
| Geologists of Jackson Hole |
Pubic outreach videos from a famous American geosciences research institute. |
| Mathematics | |
| The Secrets of Mathematics |
Lectures from the mathematics department at Oxford at levels ranging from public outreach to undergraduate level. |
| Lectures from Stanford |
Videos of public lectures from Stanford University in the USA |
| Physics | |
| Institute of Physics Videos |
As with the Royal Astronomical Society, the IOP maintains a library of videos, many aimed at schools (for example, their "Do Try This at Home" series, but also some longer public outreach lectures. |
| University of Oxford Physics Public Lectures. |
Videos of public outreach lectures from the physics department at Oxford. Oxford have a substantial series of podcasts in a range of subjects which can be found here: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series . |
| University of Oxford Saturday Mornings of Theoretical Physics |
These are videos of lectures delivered to alumni of Oxford's physics department, mainly assuming that they remember some of their second year physics. Interesting for those with some technical background who want more meat than you usually get in public outreach lectures. |
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