I am an architect with specific interest and significant recent practice in integrated design and education projects.
Dr Scott Turner is a Senior Lecturer in Computing at the University of Northampton. He has been teaching modules in Artificial Intelligence, problems-solving and computer system for 10 years. Recently he is also the School of Science and Technology’s learning and teaching and widening participation...
Jess has been involved in public engagement and knowledge transfer work for a number of years, having worked as a Knowledge Transfer Partnership Associate with the University of York and Wakefield Metropolitan District Council, and as Development Officer for Evidence Based Practice with a large...
Kenton is Head of Widening Participation & Student Recruitment at St George's, University London (SGUL) with ten years of experience in strategic development and policy implementation in relation to fair access, widening participation, community engagement, student recruitment, and...
I first experienced public engagement with science as a volunteer at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History while doing post-doctoral research in molecular virology at Northwestern University.
I joined the London School in mid-September as Public Engagement Coordinator, a new role here. I am working to draft and implement a public engagement strategy through consultation with colleagues across the School.
I am Glasgow Caledonian University’s Community and Public Engagement Coordinator, helping to map and raise the profile of engagement activities, underpinned by our motto – For The Common Weal.
During the last twenty years, Danny Callaghan has worked in a wide range of professional arts, creative heritage and cultural development roles. He has been employed and commissioned by organisations in the public, voluntary, and private sectors. Danny has worked as a public artist, researcher,...
Rob is a research manager at the Radioactive Waste Management Directorate of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. As part of a small research team he is responsible for providing the underpinning science behind the future safe disposal of the UKs higher activity radioactive waste.
At present I am Public Engagement Officer at the Centre for Public Engagement at the University of Bristol. I studied Biology at the University of Barcelona and after that I did an MSc in Science Communication at Imperial College London.
I started work at Strathclyde in 2002 supporting technology transfer as a marketing assistant. From there, I moved into Business Development, managing a portfolio of technologies available for licence.
I have recently returned to the University of Aberdeen and started a role with the Public Engagement with Research Team as part of the RCUK Catalysts project. Here I am using my interest and enthusiasm for public engagement to support researchers and their initiatives to engage their work with the...
I am a project officer at the University of Aberdeen in the Public Engagement with Research Unit and part of the RCUK Catalysts Project. Our aim is to embed public engagement in the role of a researcher and that proper recognition and reward is given to those who invest time in successful public...
In 2012 I was made Lecturer in the Bible in Contemporary Culture and Society in the Department of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield. I run Hidden Perspectives, a large-scale pioneering public engagement project.
Kent is an associate research fellow in Computer Science at the University of Exeter and has been involved in a range of non-academic engagement projects including school’s outreach, extra-curricular student learning, public engagement through “public science” events such as the annual Loebner...
I have worked with service users and carers for over 17 years. For 10 of those years I worked in the voluntary sector managing independent advocacy and service user/carer projects. I have been co-ordinator of Comensus a service user /carer project based at UCLan for the last 7 years.
Having spent the last two years working within the regeneration and community engagement sector I have enrolled on a PhD at Kingston University comparing community organising in the UK and the US and the role governments in both countries play in fostering this.
Maggie heads up the Centre for Public Engagement at the University of Bristol.
I’ve worked for over 20 years in the field of human factors, product and interaction design in both academic and commercial environments.
I studied a BA in English Literature at the University of Sheffield: in my first year, I discovered a passion for Old English and Anglo-Saxon culture, which led me to undertaking an MA in Medieval English Literature at the University of Leeds.
Since 2002 I have had the responsibility for encouraging staff and students to be more involved in the community through the development of volunteering opportunities at The University of Northampton.
Ed works as the Widening Participation & Outreach Officer (SW Region) for the National HE STEM Programme.
I read Modern History at Oxford before gaining an MA and PhD in American Studies at the University of Birmingham. I am now a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Bangor University.
In 2007, Marcia Hughes and Paul O’Keeffe founded Boulder Group. Together, they aim to offer practical support for public engagement activities across Higher Education.
I have spent the majority of my working life in the education sector, with experience as a tutor and lecturer in universities and Further Education colleges, a Partnership Liaison Officer at the University of Sunderland and as a tutor for the North East Centre for Lifelong Learning.
My background is in engaging people with heritage and history. I have a PhD in History and have worked for a range of heritage organisations in an education capacity, notably as Learning Director for English Heritage.
I have a BSc in Environmental Science and am a qualified teacher. I started working in public engagement in 2004 for a reseach centre at the University of York. My current role is Public Engagement Manager for a network of doctoral training centres.
I graduated from the University of Southampton in 2010 (MA Transnational Studies). I first came to the University as an ERASMUS exchange student from Germany, and now work within the Transition to Living and Learning Project.
I am currently a PhD student studying at Royal Holloway University of London where I completed both my Undergraduate and Postgraduate degrees. I have always had an interest in how the public interacts with and consumes history and as a consequence my MA was in Public History.
In 2008, I obtained my current post as Coordinator for Service User and Carer Involvement at Teesside University.
I am a research and knowledge transfer engaged lecturer based in the School of Media at Birmingham City University. I teach new media and social media production and theory. My research is mainly on social media. My current work includes a number of KTP projects and a public engagement project...
I was a high school teacher in Atlanta, GA, where I became interested in human rights education. After working for a short time as a diversity education consultant for a Cornish youth project I now coordinate the equality and diversity programme for University College Falmouth.
