Wales Additional Information

  • The funding of seven engagement projects that are partnerships between universities and communities to explore new ways of working together. A new round of projects is currently being assessed
  • The organising of events throughout Wales to make links between university staff and people from the surrounding communities
  • The appointment of three champions for public engagement in Cardiff and Glamorgan Universities. Their role is to persuade other senior academics about the merits of public engagement and how the different departments may be able to make their engagement more effective
  • Cardiff University adapting their promotions criteria so that engagement activities are treated equally to research work and teaching/learning
  • The development of a training programme on generic learning outcomes, which are a way of measuring wider learning beyond new knowledge
  • Interviewing senior staff at most of the Welsh Universities to establish their institutional attitudes and approaches to public engagement
  • Running a public survey looking at attitudes to universities in Wales