Steve Cross
Steve is a stand-up comedian, presenter and producer, travelling across the UK helping all sorts of intellectual types share their passions. He founded Bright Club, the international network of academic comedy clubs, and performs at comedy, music, science and tech festivals around the world. He trains clever people to be funny, through his project CLEVERmakeFUNNY, and has worked with academics, museums professionals, software engineers, architects and lawyers to make comedy part of their lives. Steve does things that aren鈥檛 jokes too. He does public engagement consultancy and training and is a Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellow, working on new ways to build communities where everyone can talk about science.
At the event he will inspire us to see public engagement in a different light, answer all your questions about public engagement in general, and tell us at the end of the day how he thinks we at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 can proceed to become better engagers.