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We are so proud to announce that our very own @alyssa_scicomms, Science Communication and Public Engagement intern at the @kcl_cdn, working under the mentorship of Dr Leigh Wilson, has won the Josh Award 2026, a National Award from the @big_stem_communicators_network for science communication and engagement! 🏆✨ 

Alyssa’s winning project, ‘What Remains’, is a community-led participatory science project exploring the biomedical science of death alongside the cultural practices, rituals, and stories of diverse communities surrounding Guy’s Campus and London Bridge. Through a series of Death Café-style gatherings, community members will sit alongside death and biomedical professionals in a genuine two-way dialogue, exploring topics including decomposition, organ donation, forensic pathology, and the history of embalming, not as passive recipients of knowledge, but as co-producers of it. 

Every session will generate oral histories, personal testimonies, and community-authored science writing, all woven together into a professionally designed zine. Alyssa will present live at the British Science Festival in Southampton and at Cheltenham Science Festival, bringing these community voices into some of the UK’s biggest public science spaces. 🔍🔬 

Josh Award Committee Chair Tim Phillips at the @big_stem_communicators_network said the project was chosen for tackling “the presently, culturally, felt-to-be-difficult topic of Death” in a positive, accessible, and community-centred way. We couldn’t agree more. We cannot wait to see what remains. 🖤 

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