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Society Champion Simeon Makafui Nutsuklo (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana), recently organised a fellowship programme at Hive Biolab, aimed at young women in science, to allow them to gain vital experience in a lab. Below, Simeon provides more details and reflects on the experience.

Society Champion Ankita Priyadarshini (Parul University, India), recently organised an event for diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate students at Parul University, India, to help spread the word about microbiology. Below, Ankita provides more details and reflects on the experience.

Our Champions Scheme allows members to promote microbiology and the Society in their local areas by providing funding and resources for a variety of activities. In November 2025, Champion Akpan Friday (Solina Centre for International Development and Research, Nigeria), organised an outreach project, to promote World AMR Awareness Week (WAAW), the Society and our Knocking Out AMR project. Below, Akpan Friday shares his insights and reflections on the activity.

Becoming a Microbiology Society Champion has provided me with a new and unique opportunity to think about how we share microbiology beyond the lab. So, when I was invited to see A Microscopic Odyssey at the Edinburgh Fringe, I was intrigued by the opportunity to experience microbiology, not within a lab or through reading a paper, but through theatre.

In his second blog, the Society’s President, Professor Gordon Dougan FRS, writes about the challenges facing science and scientists.
 

The Education and Outreach Network is a group of national and international Microbiology Society members interested in educating students at all levels of study and members of the public about microbiology. In this blog, Dr Monika Gostic talks about her recent project, 'Crafting Biochemistry'.