I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here! is an online science enrichment activity that runs throughout term-time in the UK. School students interact with scientists in text-based live chats in themed 'Zones'. At the end of the event the school students vote for their favourite scientist and the winner is awarded prize money to support further science communication.
Pilots for I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here began in 2008, and were well received by school students and teachers.[ 1] It was founded by Shane McCracken of Gallomanor Communications.[ 2] The activity is divided into several zones, which focus on either general science or a specific industry. The funding for each zone is provided by an associated learned society, organisation or industry.[ 3] [ 4] [ 5] [ 6] [ 7] Prior to 2020, the competition format was similar to The X Factor , and school students vote for the winner based on answers they receive to their questions submitted online and in live, text-based chats with the scientists.[ 8] During the COVID-19 pandemic, I’m a Scientist became an 'on demand' activity with Zones lasting longer, and scientists staying until the end of each Zone. Participating scientists are given an opportunity to develop their communication skills whilst school students and teachers benefit from contact time with a real-life, practising scientist.[ 9] The competition is also run for engineers, geoscientists, medics and astronauts, and many more.[ 10] [ 11] [ 12] [ 13] [ 14]
The activity takes place annually in the UK, Ireland and Spain.[ 15] [ 16] [ 17] [ 18] It has also run in previous years in the United States, Malaysia, Kenya, Vietnam, Germany and Australia.[ 19] [ 20] [ 21]
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
Martin Coath
Mark Hill
Andy Hearn
Jen Todd Jones
Zach Dixon
Kiran Meekings
Murray Collins
Matt Maddock
Phil Wilkinson
Rosie Coates
Katy Milne
Julian Rayner
Robin Stafford Allen
Jack Heal
Lewis Dean
Joseph Devlin
Adam Tuff
James Vokes
Duncan Gaskin
Aled Roberts
Kerstin Zechner
Jamie Pringle
Chris Hill
Leila Nichol
Matthew Malek
Sally Fenton
James Chan
Paige Brown
Grant Kennedy
Clara Nellist[ 23]
Ben Still
David Pyle
Adam Stevens
Hayley Evers-King
Amar Joshi
Dean Whitaker
Suzi Gage
Martin Austwick
Laura Soul
Roy Adkin
Joanna Brooks
Ceri Brenner
Fiona Hatch
James Holloway
Anna Middleton
Vicki Onions
Emily Robinson
Jack Snape
Tom Branson
Nick Wright
Stephen Curry
Andrew Rae
Katherine Haxton
Jennifer Paxton
John Foster
Andrew Maynard
Anna Williams
Vicky Young
Jonathan Stone
Isabel Webb
Mark Roberts
Paddy Brock
Sam Vinko
Gary Boorman
Jennifer Stephens
Panos Soultanas
Jim Caryl
Sean Murphy
Suzanne Harvey
James Bell
Katy Mee
Carys Cook
Joanna Cruden
Andrew Swale
Roberto Trotta[ 24]
Tom Hardy
Zara Gladman
Kirsty Ross
Dave Briggs
Sam Connolly
Jon Copley
Barbara Guinn
Ashley Cadby
Lyn Lim
Sergey Lamzin
Ian Sillett
Cat O'Connor
Bob Bonwick
Simon Holyoake
Daren Fearon
Joseph Cook
Helen O'Connor
Allan Pang
Rhodri Jenkins
Daryl Jones
Steven Kiddle
Amy Reeve
Carol White
Sam Geen
Dave Jones
Joanna Buckley
Wei Xun
Tom Lister
Keith Siew
Ditte Hedegaard
Ceri Thomas
Gemma Sharp
Nuala Carson
Alan Richardson
Peter Elliott
Deuan Jones
Dave Sproson
Michael Cook
Stuart Archer
Loren MacDonald
Hywel Vaughan
Sam Tazzyman
Anouk Gouvras
Dave Farmer
Andrew French
Joanna Watson
Evan Keane
John Short
Chris Whittle
Jemma Rowlandson
Rika Nair
Nicola Ibberson
Sarah-Jane Walsh
Ekbal Hussain
Suze Kundu
Sarah Martin
Becky Cook
Rebecca Williams
Tom Crick
Samantha Weaver
Jess Bean
Naomi Osborne
Ian van der Linde
Lizzie Eaves
Hannah Brotherton
Fiona McLean
Jennifer Gupta
Alison Atkin
Becki Scott
David Davila
Peta Foster
Pete Etchells
Mario Ruiz
Matt Bilton
Ben Still
Eileen Diskin
Sofia Franco
Stefan Lines
Enda O'Connell
Sarah Tesh
Katie Pickering
Paul Higgins
Vicky Forster
Angela Stokes
Robert Insall
Simon Langley-Evans
Sarah Ashwood
Joanna Giles
Kristian Harder
Lisa Simmons
Callum Johnston
Matthew Tomlinson
Helen Johnson
James Hickey
Matthew Camilleri
Zach Dixon
Alexander Pool
Rosie Coates
Arthur Dyer
Lewis Dean
Aled Roberts
Matthew Malek
Clara Nellist[ 23]
Amar Joshi
Roy Adkin
Anna Middleton
Nick Wright
John Foster
Isabel Webb
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
Thomas Clements
Christopher Blanford
Carrie Ijichi
Neil Keddie
Lee Steinberg
Barbara Shih
Cat Scott
Sallie Baxendale
Stephanie Mann
Rosanna Tilbrook
Jo Sadler
Majid Ahmed
Daniel Fovergue
David Howard
Martin McCoustra
Carmen Denam
Emma Dean (Osbourne)
Craig O'Hare
Max Jamily
Sophia Pells
Hugh Harvey
Paul O'Mahoney
Hannah Sargeant
Tim Duckenfield
Matthew Smith
Elizabeth Cooper
Lauren Laing
James Gudgeon
Sophie Williams
Vassilis Sideropoulos
Glafkos Havariyoun
Scott Lawrie
Lewis Wright
Jacque Cilliers
James Munro
Peter Maskell
Lowri Evans
Alex Evans
Jennifer Paxton
Zoe Winshurst
Anais Pujol
Hayley Moulding
Sanjib Bhatka
Ali Hill
Lowri Evans
Ollie Brown
Jonathan Hunter
Liz Buckingham-Jeffery
Daniel Marsh
Oliver Gordon
Sam Ellis
Laura Finney
Jermaine Ravalier
Samuel Vennin
Alexander Allen
Philip Moriarty[ 25]
Matt Dunn
Sam Carr
Sam Burton
Russell Arnott
James Pope
Joanna Bagniewska
Matt Lee
Daniel Jolley
Stuart Higgins
Frank Longford
Koi Wangwiwatsin
Dan Smith
Alex Seeney
Nick Werren
Imogen Napper
Angus Cook
Rosie Cane
Ella Mercer
Anastasia Aliferi
Jess Wade
Dawn Lau
Natasha Myhill
Abbie Jordan
Paul Laurance-Young
James Gilbert
Euan Allen
Ryan Cutter
Callum McHugh
Joanna Barstow
Sarah Beasley
Elliot Jokl
Ananthi Ramachandran
Danny Ward
Harry Wilkinson
Andy Scott
Joe Bathelt
Georgina Hazell
David Ho
Pizza Chow
Laura Wales
Steve Street
Duncan McNicholl
Alex Reid
Jolel Miah
Richard Prince
Megan Seymour
Oli Wilson
Rachel Sharman
Elena Maters
Thomas Farrugia
Lauren Burt
Senga Roberston-Albertyn
Liam Taylor
Bruno Silvester Lopes
Chris Armstrong
Zarah Pattison
Graeme Poole
Mark Johnson
Jonny Brooks-Bartlett
Darren Rhodes
Kelly Rushton
Jack Joyce
Ryan Cheale
Miranda Bane
Iain Stainland
Alex Batchelor
Hayley Clissold
Reka Nagy
Varun Ramaswamy
Sara Falcone
Laura-Anne Furlong
Jesus Calvo-Castro
Jack Carlyle
Cristina Villa Del Campo
Ashley Hughes
Ross King
Nicholas Pearce
Natalie Garrett
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
Greg Heikel
Martin McCoustra
Gareth Nye
George Foden
Fraser Smith
Priya Silverstein
Felicity Hunter
Reece Bush-Evans
Martin McCoustra
Courtney Povey
Catherine Talbot
Amelia Gilio
Victoria Fawcett
Yannick Verbelen
Ryan Durnall
Binuraj Menon
Dennis Relojo-Howell
Mark Ridgill
Benjamin Foster
Sam Rogerson
Dave Constable
Kip Heath
Jake Sallaway-Costello
Ilma Qonaah
Douglas Bray
Emma Yhnell
Ben Futcher
Birsu Kandemirci
Ben Cropper
John Shaw
Dan Day
Santosh Mahabala
Ross Alexander
Yueng Lenn
Liz Halstead
Chloe Tasker
Stacey New
Michael Hills
Charli Corcoran
Giampiero Valenzano
Danica Pinto
Jennifer Allen
John Grasmeder
Baptiste Ravina
Alex Baxendale
Bruno Silvester Lopes
Mick Schubert
Rafael Galupa
Octavia Brayley
Edward Banks
Karen Fung
Jonathan Teague
David Sobral
Luke Townsend
Michael Schubert
Shanmugapriyan M.
David McGonigle
Eliza Hunt
Amy Rattenbury
Amelia Gilio
Parise Carmichael-Murphy
Zsolt Keszthelyi
Melanie Swang
Kirsty Lindsay
Winners 2022 -
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
Andy Hearn
Gary Boorman
Jessica Marshall Housden
Neil Taylor
Ross Miller
Matt Maddock
Graham Wiggins
Felicity Harer
Ryan Bakewell
Robin Stafford Allen
Mark Greaves
Stacey Cutten
Stuart Inglis
James Vokes
Zoe George
Mohamed Salah
Matt Round
Chris Hill
Alex Lyness
Naomi Green
Andrew Pidgeon
Paige Brown
Norbert Gogiel
Chris Hackett
Nicola Lazenby
Lizzie Kapasa
Mark Gowan
Lee Margetts
Laura O'Shea
Zack Gill
Matt Hobbs
Will Scott-Jackson
Eloise Taysom
Rhys Archer
Richard Symonds
Stevie Wray
James Clarke
Michael Sulu
Leon Wechie
Will Avison
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
Ana Gallego
Demi Ademuyewo
Leah Morgan
Yannick Verbelen
Michael Jones
Ollie Morris
Hollie Heard
Brian Weaver
Hester Baird
Emma Ryan
Guy Rixon
Shruti Turner
Chloe James
Stacey Marple
Eimear Tuohy
Chris Parmenter
Harriet Gamble
Gina Schade
Graham Cullen
Jessica Korzeniowska
Petros Papapanagiotou
Fiona Freeman
Femi Olushola
Sean Doherty
Boris Mocialov[ 27]
Lauren Ashmore
Andrew Margetts-Kelly
K'Jo O'Flynn
Henry Watts
Winners 2022 -
2017
2018
2019
2021
2022
2023
Shehla Imtiaz-Umer
Jamie Hynes
Neel Halder
Team Nottinghamshire Alliance Training Hub (NATH)
Team Midland RCGP
Nottinghamshire Alliance Training Hub
Robert Cullum
Tarik Shembesh
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
Eileen Diskin
Shane McGuinness
Chloe Kinsella
Sinead Balgobin
Stephen Davitt
Enda O'Connell
Sive Finlay
James Sullivan
Emma Feeney
Sebastian Gornik
Paul Higgins
Sinead Cullen
Shikha Sharma
Claire O'Connell
Aoife Lucid
Joseph Roche
Ciaran O'Brien
Uday Bangavadi
Dave Concannon
Mark Kennedy
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
Shannon Fullbrook
Jasmine Headlam
Aoife Campbell
Marcello Valente
Gaël Lymer
Emma Hanley
Fiana Ní Ghrálaigh
Jessica Franklin
Min Yap
Ciara O'Donovan
Hugh Manning
Katie Starsmore
Sarah Guerin
Sheila Castilho
Souvik Kundu
Sonia Lenehan
Jake Cunningham
Winners 2022-
Winners 2014 – 2017
2014
2015
2016
2017
Laura Tobin
Padraic Morrissey
Conor McGinn
David Nolan
David Taylor
Martin O'Halloran
Ned Dywer
James Harpur
Cathal Ó Murchú
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
Fiona Freeman
Kevin O'Brien
Ollie Otter
Mike Hinchey
Aisling Lee
Eimear Tuohy
Diana Abrunhosa
Connor McGookin
Graham Cullen
Stephen O'Connor
Fiona Malone
Anna Rabitti
Andreas Rudersdorf
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