Auditing, Benchmarking and Evaluating Public Engagement

Angie Hart, Simon Northmore, Chloe Gerhardt.

April 2009

This paper explores the roles of auditing, benchmarking and evaluating university public engagement. It brings a multitude of different approaches together into one framework that seeks to capture the variety of public engagement under seven broad dimensions. There is no single tool to effectively evaluate all forms of university public engagement; however, the paper identifies a number of existing tools that may be effective for different types or dimensions of engagement.

The full paper (pdf 499KB) provides an indepth analysis of the subject.

Headlines from this work can be found in the 8 page summary (pdf 150KB).