Testimonials
Four-star review on Teachers Pay Teachers.
Five-star review on Teachers Pay Teachers.
Four-star review on Teachers Pay Teachers.
Four-star review on Teachers Pay Teachers.
Four-star review on Teachers Pay Teachers.
Five-star review on Teachers Pay Teachers.
Four-star review on Teachers Pay Teachers.
Five-star review on Teachers Pay Teachers.
“I had been emailing many places in the hope of finding a work placement that I need to compete for my university module. Futurum was the only company to reply and help me out in this matter. Karen, especially, was more than brilliant, as I had been struggling. She lent me a hand, finding me work placements for other companies and helping me get directly in touch with them. I’m very pleased that I contacted Futurum. If I hadn’t, I would still be at base one.”
Hannah Majeeda, English student at the University of Huddersfield
Five-star review on Teachers Pay Teachers.
Five-star rating on Teachers Pay Teachers
We are proud to be recognised as an Innovating Careers Champion by the UK’s Careers and Enterprise Company.
Four-star rating on Teachers Pay Teachers
Five-star rating on Teachers Pay Teachers.
Four-star rating on Teachers Pay Teachers
Professor Keith Bender and research fellow Dr Nicole Andelic used their Futurum resource to conduct a series of workshops at Lathallan School in Scotland.
Five-star rating on Teachers Pay Teachers
Four-star rating on Teachers Pay Teachers
Dr De Mi’s article is given a 4-star rating on Scientix: https://futurumcareers.com/why-a-new-era-of-broadcasting-will-change-the-world-as-we-know-it
Fulneck School in Leeds, UK, tweets about the webinar we produced for Scientix, an EU-funded programme that promotes and supports a Europe-wide collaboration among STEM teachers, education researchers and policymakers.
“I cannot thank Futurum enough. With the help of Karen I was able to increase my understanding of marine biology and its implications in population dynamics. If any high school students want to take the initiative to contact an expert Futurum is the way to do it! With Sarah’s [McAnulty] help I know I can ace this project!”
Noah King, grade 12, contacted us via the comments board on Sarah McAnulty’s article:
https://futurumcareers.com/what-can-we-learn-from-bobtail-squid
Reviewed by cgoodright on TES in June 2019
PROFESSOR MARKUS BINDEMANN, Professor of Cognitive Psychology, University of Kent, UK
Eleftheria Tsourlidaki, POLAR STAR, Ellinogermaniki Agogi, Research and Development Department, Greece
“Working with Futurum has been such a wonderful and positive experience. From start to finish, I was met with support and communication whether it was needing some extra time for my team to review things or to change smaller details with our article. Working with Erica was an absolute pleasure and she really helped us emphasize the ideals and goals of our research. Thank you for everything!”
Tanya Josek, Ph.D. Project EDDIE, Illinois State University, USA
“Working with Futurum has been such a positive experience. They quickly understood the key concepts behind our work and the value of the research we do. They have translated a complex topic into practical teaching materials. We would definitely work with them again.”
BECKY PARSONS, Communications Manager, Understanding Society, University of Essex, UK
“It has been a joy to see the research that I do transformed into such visually engaging and accessible material. Working with the team at Futurum has been an easy process from start to finish; I was very much included in the design, but the team did such a great job researching and distilling the material that very little steering was needed from me. It’s been great to work with an organisation so committed to communicating that careers in STEM are achievable for students, and equipping them with the knowledge they need to make informed career decisions.”
Dr Molly Grace
Task Force Co-Chair for the IUCN Green Status of Species, Department of Zoology and Wadham College, University of Oxford, UK
“Working with Futurum has been a nice experience and particularly the many exchanges I had with Erica. Being able to communicate the research that we perform on daily basis to a non-specialized audience is not an exercise I was familiar with, but it is strategically important. I hope that this will stimulate the curiosity of young students and the next generation of organic chemists.”
DR DAVIDE AUDISIO
Research Scientist, Frédéric Joliot Institute for Life Sciences, The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), France
Dr N. Brice Orange, Executive Director of the University of the Virgin Islands Etelman Observatory, and CEO of OrangeWave Innovative Science, LLC
“Working with the Futurum team is truly a great experience. I particularly enjoyed the chat with Chris for a common goal of making our research known to the next generation, and greatly appreciate Erica and others at Futurum for their magical transformation of the highly technical content into an article for high-school and college students. Very professional!”
Dr Zhigang Zhu, Herbert G. Kayser Professor of Computer Science, The City College and The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, USA
“Working with Futurum Careers on this piece was an absolute pleasure – the whole process was enjoyable and very well structured, right from the initial video conversations to the writing and editing. They were also very flexible and accommodating with my time, which I greatly appreciated.”
Yashaswi Nalawade, PhD student, Chemical Physics of Low-Dimensional Nanostructures Group, School of Physics, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland
“STEM outreach is so important, so I was thrilled to work with the Futurum team. Brett and Erica made everything run so smoothly. The process was very easy and took only minimal time on my part, and the resulting article is beautiful. I highly recommend working with Futurum to develop materials for outreach!”
Dr Catherine Brissette, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, USA
“Who ever thought the process of working with editors on a publication could be so enjoyable?! I am forever grateful to Erica, Brett, and the rest of the Futurum team for bringing our research group’s work to life in an engaging, aesthetically-pleasing, and accessible article. The entire process was incredibly smooth and efficient, and it was clear they valued my time, the scientific integrity of the piece, and maximizing its potential impact on youth. If you’re on the fence about working with Futurum, I can assure you won’t be disappointed!”
Dr Brad Newton Barlow, Director of the Culp Planetarium and Associate Professor of Astrophysics, High Point University, North Carolina, USA
“I want to thank you and your team for making this fun for me and extremely painless. I think that most of us at this stage in our career want to share any experiences that might be useful to others and you have made me feel that I can do that. In addition, of course, we want to feel good about the course of our career, and I am happy that I do feel that way. You have helped me put the variety of experiences into a coherent perspective, so I thank you and your team. It was very pleasant to work with you.”
Professor Marianne Berwick, UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center, USA
“My experience with the Futurum team was excellent. You guys were very responsive and incredibly patient. Your team did an excellent job in putting the content together into a nice glossy brochure that I feel proud of taking to the public. Thanks for your support and I will happily recommend your platform to other academic colleagues.”
Dr Thomas Volz, Macquarie University, Australia
“The Futurum team worked diligently with me to meet my needs. I am very busy, and they worked to my schedule and provided all the opportunities I needed to shape the content in a way that I really liked. Top Notch!”
Dr Darren Ranco, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Maine, USA
“I enjoyed working with the Futurum team throughout the entire process. They were very responsive and accurately responded to requested modifications. The entire process was very enjoyable.”
DR NICK FLYNN, Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry and Physics, West Texas A&M University, Texas, US
Dr Xinan Liu, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, USA
Dr Jay Nadeau, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Portland State University, USA
Dr Xiaoming Yu, Assistant Professor of Optics & Photonics, CREOL The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, USA
Professor Yves Dufrene, Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology, UCLouvain, Belgium
Dr Bette Otto-Bliesner, Senior Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado, USA.
“It was an absolute pleasure working with Futurum from start to finish, thank you so much. They were always on-point, asking great questions about my research and pitching the final article exactly where it needed to be to reach the target audience. I have nothing but positive things to say and I hope one day to bump into someone who became inspired to pursue a career in science after reading the Futurum article about my work.”
Dr Alan Condron, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA
Dr Jonathan Grainger, Research Scientist, Cognitive Psychology Lab, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Aix- Marseille University, France
Dr James Tanton, Mathematician-at-Large for the Mathematical Association of America, Founder of the Global Math Project, educator and author.
Professor Brian Toon, Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
DR ERIC CHI
Assistant Professor, Statistics Department, North Carolina State University, USA
Professor John Keith, R.K. Mellon Faculty Fellow in Energy, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, USA
“The people I worked with at Futurum made the production of a brochure about my research very easy, even fun. They managed to present my research in a way that I could never have done myself. I’m very impressed by the final product as well as the process.”
Dr Jonas Pontusson, Professor of Comparative Politics, Geneva School of Social Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Dr. Christina H. Paguyo and Dr. Valentina Iturbe-LaGrave, Office of Teaching and Learning, University of Denver, USA
“My experience working with Futurum was outstanding. They helped distil my responses into what could be easily read by young readers, and created a beautiful article that I’ll share with my department chair, colleagues and family. Thank you Futurum!”
Dr Elliot Rouse, Neurobionics Lab, University of Michigan, USA
Professor Li Li
Professor of Environmental Engineering, Li Reactive Water Group, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, USA
“It was truly a great experience to work with Erica, Brett, Karen, and the rest of the Futurum team on the article and brochure design. The whole team is super professional and efficient even during the lockdown period. Futurum has helped me to translate my intricate physical chemistry story into a more comprehensible way for young students from a journalistic perspective. I am looking forward to the final publication of the article and strongly expect that our work here could inspire more scientific thinkings and academic dreams.”
Dr Wenping Yin
ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
“Working with Futurum staff to contribute to their library of scientist profiles has been a great experience. Their attention to detail and ability to easily guide me through the editorial process made our work together memorable and enjoyable. Thank you!”
Dr Verónica A. Segarra, Assistant Professor of Biology, High Point University, US
Co-Director, Alliance to Catalyze Change and Equity in STEM Success
Founding Faculty, High Point University’s Mobile Lab
Dr Mark Rentschler, Advanced Medical Technologies Laboratory, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.
“Thanks very much for pushing through with this publication. We’re very happy with the final product and overall high quality. This will be a useful resource for us to use in student recruitment, as well as to disseminate the work in our recent project.”
Professor Kate Spencer, School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Professor Lesley-Ann L. Dupigny-Giroux, University of Vermont, USA
“Thank you to Futurum for reaching out to PADF to highlight our work on STEM in the Americas. Working with Karen for the article was a pleasure and she and her team captured our work and vision quite nicely!”
Luisa Villegas, Senior Director of Program Innovation and Education Thematic Leader, Pan American Development Foundation
Dr Shiliing Pei, Associate Professor, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Kathryn Wills, IDLES Programme Manager, Imperial College London, UK
Dr Wenya Xu, Research Assistant, Jackson State University, USA
“I have worked with PR teams in the past and I found that working with Erica and Futurum was by far the easiest process I have been through. They were able to present our work in a format and in a style that will appeal to a wide audience. The internal feedback I got from the final product was extremely positive. I would highly recommend working with Futurum as a great way to get your STEM message out.”
Professor Doug Jacobson, Director Information Assurance Center, Iowa State University, USA
Dr Glenn Dolphin, Tamaratt Teaching Professor, Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary, Canada
‘It was great working with Erica. She was very easy to work with and the process was seamless. I am happy that Erica and the Futurum team produced a stunning and professional brochure and activity sheet that will make our work accessible to young audiences.’
Dr Karyna Rosario, College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, USA
Five-star rating from Kathy Louis on Teachers Pay Teachers, 6 September, 2020: “I like your presentation as these can easily be shared with students for their readings. Thank you!”
“Working with Erica and the Futurum team has been a real pleasure: competence and attention to details led us through a seamless journey from interview to brochure production. Excited to add such a compelling article to my public engagement toolbox”
Davide Bulgarelli, Principal Investigator, James Hutton Institute, University of Dundee, UK
Dr Virginia Edgcomb, Geology and Geophysics Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA
Five-star rating from Christen C, 25 August 2020: “Extremely satisfied. Nice resource.”
“Erica and the rest of the Futurum team have crafted a brochure that captures both the essence of my research in an accessible way and also the excitement and joy that doing science brings to me. They did a fantastic job here and working with them was efficient and fun. Futurum has a protocol that streamlines this process and, as their lead with me, Erica was terrific. We were able to iterate all aspects of the brochure’s contents in a timely and, frankly, enjoyable mutual effort.
Futurum’s professionalism and international reach are enriching STEM education by making brochures such as mine freely accessible to a wide audience. Kudos to Futurum.”
Professor Tom Bania, Astronomy Department Institute for Astrophysical research, Department of Astronomy Boston University, USA
‘Despite the lockdown, due to superb communication, great consultation and the ability to be flexible, Erica and Futurum produced an amazing brochure in a timely manner that explained our project in a highly accessible way. I am delighted with the end result and found the whole experience rewarding. I feel that the choice we made to work with Futurum offers us greater opportunities to engage young people in understanding how humanitarian engineering can make a difference in the displaced context’.
Dr Elena Gaura, Professor of Pervasive Computing, Faculty of Engineering, Environment and Computing, Coventry University
“It was an absolute pleasure working with Karen and the Futurum Careers team. The process was efficient and enjoyable, they made it very easy for us, and the end product was exceptionally high standard and professional.”
Dr Dan Horton, Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Virology and School Research Director, University of Surrey
“Working with Futurum has been a hassle free and straightforward process. They have been really transparent about what was expected and easily contactable to add extra clarification when needed. I am very pleased with the final result and have enjoyed working with them. The final brochure is a great resource to share my research more widely.”
Dr Emily Kavanagh-Corrigan, Research Fellow in Communication Design, University of Surrey
“I found Karen and Futurum easy to work with. It was not difficult to put together the brochure. They were very good about including my students and their stories in the process, and in the brochure, which I think will make younger students relate more easily to the presentation.”
Prof Ann Matthysse, University of North Carolina, USA
Dr Lyndele von Schill, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA
Dr Erin Peters-Burton, Director, Center for Social Equity Through Science Education, George Mason University, USA
“I really enjoyed working with the Futurum team – the process was straightforward and from my interview answers an excellent article was created. The final product looks fantastic and is proving so useful to share my work more widely.”
Helen Bridle, Associate Professor, Heriot-Watt University, UK
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Dr Dan Flippo, Associate professor, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Kansas State University, USA
“Karen and Brett were great to work with. They made the whole process straightforward with clear, manageable deadlines and great communication along the way. Karen grasped the project really easily and created some brilliant resources to accompany the text we wrote. The end product is amazing and the publicity has been excellent.”
10 July 2020: “I’m really impressed with the reach of our article. We included details of our citizen science project in our activity sheet, which was picked up as far away as Australia – definitely a world-wide distribution!”
Dr Alan Goddard, Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry, Aston Membrane Proteins and Lipids (AMPL), Aston University, UK
“Working with Brett and Karen was simple and straightforward. They have a set formula for their product, into which it was easy to slot my story. Karen and her team showed obvious enthusiasm for the topic of the article, which also helped. I had an idea in my head, and the Futurum site provided a great outlet for it. I am very happy with the outcome, both the look and tenor of the article. If I was still a kid (OK, my wife says I am still!) I’d be excited and interested to read about this career possibility (with or without the protective clothing of a volcanologist!).”
Prof Steve Self, Volcanologist, Faculty of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA
“Karen and the Futurum team were professional, prompt, and easy to work with. Futurum created engaging and richly-detailed materials to inspire young people to pursue careers in field science and education.”
Stacy McNulty
Current President of the Organization of Biological Field Stations, USA
“The team are very happy with the end product and the journey was not as tough or time consuming as I thought it might be. We are happy that Futurum have captured the essence of our science and the journey of a scientist/researcher in the modern era. I look forward to sharing with family/friends and the children affected by the diseases we work on as this resource will be educational on many levels for them and others who chose to interact with it. Job done. I have already recommended Futurum to a colleague to help with public engagement.”
Dr Kevin Marchbank, Reader in Complement Biology, Newcastle University, UK
Prof Shujun Li
Director of Kent Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cyber Security (KirCCS) and Professor of Cyber Security at the School of Computing, University of Kent
Prof Sayantan Ghosal
Dean of Interdisciplinary and Impact, Social Sciences; Professor in Economics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Prof Jamie Wilkinson
Research Leader in Mineral Deposits, Natural History Museum; Professor of Geology, Imperial College London, UK
Dr Fabio Costa
School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland, Australia
Dr Rebecca Bell
Earth Scientist, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Earth Science & Engineering, Imperial College London, UK
Reviewed by Jessica C. on Teachers Pay Teachers, in January, 2020
Reviewed by mariann998 on TES in December 2019
Dr Julie Smith
Research Associate Professor, Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, University of Vermont, USA
Photo credit: J.K. O’Neil
Pollyanna Langford-Lacny
Post-16 Careers Lead and English Teacher, Hayesfield Girls’ School, Bath, UK
“It has been an absolutely pleasant experience working with Karen, Brett and their Futurum team to publish the article about 5G broadcast. Their professionalism, patience and team efficiency indeed smoothed the entire process of initial drafting, editing, revising, reviewing, further revising and finalising, especially for our case where quite a few academic and industrial partners were involved. What truly impressed me was their transferable skills to open up an accessible edutainment world for young school-age audiences as well as educators who are keen to learn about cutting edge research and innovations.”
Dr De Mi
Research Fellow, 5G Innovation Centre, University of Surrey, UK
“Explaining deep theory in very plain language is not an easy task. But it is a very meaningful work for scientists to engage with the public. Karen and her colleagues have done a wonderful job in making this possible. It has been a very pleasant experience in working with the Futurum team. I will certainly recommend to peer researchers in my future career.”
Zilong Liu
Senior Research Fellow, 5G Innovation Centre, University of Surrey, UK
Bunny, Year 10
“I really enjoyed working with Karen, Brett and their Futurum team. Their work plays an important role in bridging the gap between academics and the broader community – the school community, in particular. The team is super friendly, professional and responsive, which made life so much easier. Thank you!”
Prof Zheng-Xiang Li
John Curtin Distinguished Professor, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University, Australia
Dr Kohyar Kiazad
Associate Professor, Centre for Global Business, Monash Business School, Monash University, Australia
Dr Leigh Orf
Atmospheric Scientist, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS), University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Year 8 student, Hayesfield Girls’ School, Bath, UK
Year 8 student, Hayesfield Girls’ School, Bath, UK
Dr Paul Lasky
ARC Future Fellow and Senior Lecturer, Monash University, Australia
Dr Mark Tuckerman
Professor of Chemistry and Mathematics, New York University, USA
It was great fun to work with Futurum to produce the article about operations research, machine learning, and supply chain management. The process was smooth and enjoyable, and the Futurum team was exceptionally good at translating academic research ideas into something fun and interesting for non-experts. I think the finished article looks great, and I am eagerly sharing it with my colleagues, students, and friends.”I really enjoyed working on my article with Futurum. They had great interview questions from the beginning and really went out of their way to let me repeatedly revise my responses, and promote feedback on my revisions, until we all felt that my responses were well-crafted and appropriate for a grade-school audience. Everyone was also incredibly accommodating in regard to my hectic schedule and change in job (and address) in the middle of the process, which made for a stress-free collaboration.”
Prof Larry Snyder
Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Lehigh University, USA
“I really enjoyed working on my article with Futurum. They had great interview questions from the beginning and really went out of their way to let me repeatedly revise my responses, and promote feedback on my revisions, until we all felt that my responses were well-crafted and appropriate for a grade-school audience. Everyone was also incredibly accommodating in regard to my hectic schedule and change in job (and address) in the middle of the process, which made for a stress-free collaboration.”
Dr Ellyn Enderlin
Assistant Professor of Geophysics, Boise State University, USA
Reviewed by Judy432 on TES in May 2019
Prof Bram Murton
Associate Head of Marine Geoscience, National Oceanography Centre, UK
Dr Agueda Gras-Velazquez
Head of the Science Education Department, European Schoolnet and Scientix
Dr Marc Frischer
Professor in Biological Oceanography, University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, USA
Reviewed by honeymchacko on TES in September 2019
“It was great working with Cressida and Karen on the article about “101 things to see in space”. The design work was so much better than anything we could have achieved in house on similar timescales, and the direct link to our target audience of young people who may not have considered a career in STEM before was unbeatable. The process was simple and I had input on the content right through the process. Communication was friendly and easy, and has lead to a product that introduces what we do in a new way to anything we’d tried in the past – I’m excited to keep using the article to present the project to people.”
Dr Stacey Habergham-Mawson
National Schools’ Observatory Manager, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Dr Andréa Richa
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State University, USA
Josh Daymude
PhD in Computer Science, Arizona State University, USA
Lyndsey Henderson via Facebook
Dr Simon Rennie
Senior Lecturer in Victorian Poetry, University of Exeter
Professor Lori Eckhardt
Forest Health Cooperative, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, USA
Sarah Ratcliff via Facebook
Dr Stephanie Bestelmeyer
Executive Director, Asombro Institute for Science Education, USA
Dr Dave Hay
Professor of Tissue Engineering, Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh, UK
Dr Alexis Vogt
Associate Professor of Optics, Monroe Community College, USA
Kate Falk
Senior Manager, Public Relations, National Science Teachers Association, USA
Dr Christine Wekerle
Associate Professor of Paediatrics, McMaster University, Canada
Dr Andrea Holmes
Professor of Chemistry, Doane University, USA
Mhairi Crawford
Development Director, WISE Campaign, UK