Contact

📩 superbugs@cardiff.ac.uk
☎️ 029 2074 6735 / 07875 245323

Major events 🧑‍🔬

• since 2021: “Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us”, online resource for schools in Wales, the UK and beyond

• 2024: Superbugs workshop, mini Science Festival, Broadlands Fun Day, Bridgend

• 2023: Superbugs workshop, mini Science Festival, Broadlands Fun Day, Bridgend

• 2023: ”Superbugs - A Pop-Up Science Shop!”, Interactive experience at Make Tank, Exeter town centre

• 2022: Superbugs workshop (virtual), “Night of Science”, Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University (Ukraine)

• 2022: Superbugs workshop (virtual), “Science in Health Live”, Cardiff University School of Medicine

• 2021: Superbugs workshop (virtual), Merthyr Science Festival, Merthyr Tydfil

• 2019: ”Superbugs - A Pop-Up Science Shop!”, Interactive experience at St David’s Dewi Sant shopping centre, Cardiff

• 2018: ”Superbugs - The End of Modern Medicine As We Know It?”, ‘After Hours’ evening event at Techniquest, Cardiff

Workshops at local schools and libraries 🏫

• 2024: Bridgend Library

• 2024: Llangewydd Junior School (Bridgend)

• 2023: Swansea Central Library

• 2023: Cefn Glas Infants School (Bridgend)

• 2020: Rhiwbina Library (Cardiff)

Awards 🏆

• 2022: Microbiology Outreach Prize, Microbiology Society (Jonathan Tyrrell)

• 2021: Best Poster, ‘Education & Public Engagement’, Annual Congress of the British Society for Immunology, Edinburgh (Matthias Eberl)

• 2021: Staff Appreciation And Recognition (STAR) Award, ‘Outstanding Contribution to Engagement Activities', Cardiff University School of Medicine (Jonathan Tyrrell)

• 2021: Finalist, FameLab UK (Jonathan Tyrrell)

• 2021: Winner, FameLab Wales (Jonathan Tyrrell)

Funding 💷

• Ongoing: JustGiving (£ 280). Crowdfunding to establish partnerships between schools in the UK and Ireland with schools in Tanzania (Matthias Eberl)

• 2025: Swansea University, MSc Biomedical Sciences Clinical Microbiology Specialism (tbc).
  (Jonathan Tyrrell)

• 2024-2025: PAR Foundation, Sweden (SEK 300,000).
  “A Superbugs Tanzania partnership – Learning from and with each other” (Matthias Eberl, Jonathan Tyrrell, Sarah Hatch, Claire Nollett, Michael Mosha, Erick Venant, Oliva Minja)

• 2024: Cardiff University, Civic Insights bursaries (to Friday Cox, Kashia Dias; £ 200).
  “Superbugs – The microbial world in, on and around us” (Matthias Eberl)

• 2024: Swansea University, MSc Biomedical Sciences Clinical Microbiology Specialism (£1,800).
  (Jonathan Tyrrell)

• 2023: Swansea University, MSc Biomedical Sciences Clinical Microbiology Specialism (£1,400).
  (Jonathan Tyrrell)

• 2023: Microbiology Society, Education and Outreach Grant (£ 996).
  “Learning together about infection and hygiene – A Superbugs collaboration in Tanzania” (Jonathan Tyrrell, Matthias Eberl, Sarah Hatch, Michael Mosha, Erick Venant, Oliva Minja)

• 2023: Systems Immunity Research Institute (£ 1,126).
  “Learning together about infection and hygiene – A Superbugs partnership between schools in Wales and Tanzania” (Matthias Eberl, Jonathan Tyrrell, Sarah Hatch, Claire Nollett, Michael Mosha, Erick Venant, Oliva Minja)

• 2023: An Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta (COGG), Ireland.
  Teaching and learning resource funding scheme 2023 (€ 8,588) (Matthias Eberl, Jonathan Tyrrell, Sarah Hatch, Jack Ó Drisceoil, Máire Nic Eachmharcaigh) 

• 2021: British Society for Immunology, Poster Prize ‘Education & Public Engagement’, Annual Congress (£ 250).
  “Superbugs – An educational resource to increase awareness of the microbial world in, on and around us” (Matthias Eberl)

• 2020: British Society for Immunology, Communicating Immunology grant (£ 1,000).
  “Superbugs – An educational resource for school children in the UK and Ireland” (Matthias Eberl, Jonathan Tyrrell, Sarah Hatch, Jenny Mannion) 

• 2020: Wellcome Trust ISSF3 Public Engagement Co-production Award (£ 12,357).
  “Superbugs 2: Digital Dissemination!” (Jonathan Tyrrell, Matthias Eberl, Sarah Hatch, Christie Conlon, Mike Roberts)

• 2019-2022: Cardiff University, Systems Immunity Research Institute (approx. £ 3,500).
  Public Engagement contingency funding in support of Superbugs projects (Matthias Eberl, Jonathan Tyrrell)

• 2019: Wellcome Trust ISSF3 Public Engagement Proof-of-Concept Award (£ 7,440).
  “A Pop-Up Science Shop!” (Jonathan Tyrrell, Matthias Eberl, Sarah Hatch, Ali Aboklaish)

• 2018: Cardiff University, Systems Immunity Research Institute Engagement Grant (£ 2,160).
  ”Superbugs - The End of Modern Medicine As We Know It?” (Matthias Eberl, Micaela Gal, Sarah Hatch)

Supervision of MSc Students 🎓

• 2024: Amalraj Eyyath-Veettil (Swansea University)

• 2024: Sona Galla (Swansea University)

• 2024: Chioma Ogbukagu (Swansea University)

• 2024: Oluwatimilehin Okundalaye (Swansea University)

• 2023: Vasudev Nalleppillil-Gopakumar (Swansea University)

• 2023: Chiamaka Nnamdi Blessing (Swansea University)

• 2023: Rachel Ekep Oyebode (Swansea University)

• 2023: Haritha Udayan-Ayanikkad (Swansea University)

Work experience students 🛠️

• 2024: Friday Cox (Cardiff University)

• 2024: Kashia Dias (Cardiff University)

Publications 📚

• Nollett C, Eberl M, Fitzgibbon J, Joseph-Williams N, Hatch S. 2024. Public involvement and engagement in scientific research and higher education: the only way is ethics? Research Involvement and Engagement 10:50.

• Eberl M, Cruickshank SM. 2024. A culture shift to support public involvement and engagement in research. Journal of Experimental Medicine 221:e20240268.

• Tyrrell JM, Ayanikkad HU, Nalleppillil-Gopakumar V, Oyebode R, Nnamdi Blessing C, Hatch S, Eberl M. 2024. Combining postgraduate research training, public engagement and primary school science education - A Superbugs Master (MSc) class. Frontiers in Immunology 15:1380045.

• Tyrrell JM, Hatch S, Flanagan M, Owen K, Proctor Y, Stone C, Fricker G, Hullis K, Eberl M. 2024. Superbugs online: Co-production of an educational website to increase public understanding of the microbial world in, on and around us. Frontiers in Immunology 15:1340350.

• Eberl M, Joseph-Williams N, Nollett C, Fitzgibbon J, Hatch S. 2023. Overcoming the disconnect between scientific research and the public. Immunology & Cell Biology 101(7):590-597.

• Tyrrell JM, Conlon CS, Aboklaish AF, Hatch S, Smith C, Mathias J, Thomson K, Eberl M. 2022. ‘Superbugs’: Raising public awareness of antimicrobial resistance through a pop-up science shop. Research for All 6(1), 1-21.  

Conference presentations and invited seminars 🎤

• Jonathan Tyrrell, Melissa Flanagan, Kerry Owen, Yvonne Proctor, Sarah Hatch, Matthias Eberl: “Superbugs: Raising awareness and increasing understanding of the microbial world in, on and around us“. Oral presentation at the Annual Congress of the British Society for Immunology, Belfast, 4-7 December 2023

• Jonathan Tyrrell: “Engaging new audiences in microbiology“. Invited lecture at the Microbiology Society Annual Conference, Birmingham, 17-20 April 2023. (watch here)

• Jonathan Tyrrell, Sarah Hatch, Matthias Eberl: “Superbugs: Raising awareness and increasing understanding of the microbial world in, on and around us“. Oral presentation at Cardiff University’s Infection & Immunity Annual Meeting, Cardiff, 15 November 2023

• Jonathan Tyrrell, Sarah Hatch, Carl Smith, Christie Conlon, Matthias Eberl: “Superbugs – An educational resource to increase awareness of the microbial world in, on and around us“. Poster presentation at Cardiff University’s Infection & Immunity Annual Meeting, Cardiff, 23 November 2022

• Jonathan Tyrrell: “Superbugs: A Pop-Up Science Shop”. Video presentation for the NCCPE Engage Conference, 1-2 December 2021 (virtual). (watch here)

• Jonathan Tyrrell, Sarah Hatch, Carl Smith, Christie Conlon, Matthias Eberl: “Superbugs – An educational resource to increase awareness of the microbial world in, on and around us“. Poster presentation at the Annual Congress of the British Society for Immunology, Edinburgh, 28 November - 1 December 2021

• Matthias Eberl: “Superbugs: Increasing public awareness and knowledge of antimicrobial resistance by taking science to the city”. BSI South Wales Immunology Group, invited seminar, 26 May 2021 (virtual)

• Matthias Eberl: “Superbugs: Increasing public awareness and knowledge of antimicrobial resistance by taking science to the city”. BSI Edinburgh Immunology Group, invited seminar, 6 May 2021 (virtual)