Converge: releasing the potential of the university
York St John University and the Leeds and York NHS Foundation Trust provide courses in the arts for people who use mental health services
Disposal? UCL Museums & Collections and the Consultative Exhibition
In October 2009, UCL Museums & Collections held an exhibition which asked the audience to contribute to discussions about one of the most controversial subjects in the museum world: what should we keep and what should we get rid of?
Bright Club: public engagement variety night
Bright Club provides an enjoyable first-step into public engagement for students and staff. It is run by the UCL Public Engagement Unit and happens every month in a comedy club in London.
Public Involvement in Research
This case study describes an initiative to build a strategic approach to involving health and social care service users in research in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at UWE Bristol.
A collaboration between the Victoria and Albert Museum and UWE to create a website containing interviews with people from British crafts, to offer alternative views on the museums 20 century ceramics collection.
The Crescent Network - Fostering PE through networks
Set up in early 2010 the Crescent Network is an informal forum for early career researchers to develop their public engagement skills
Collecting and Curating Popular Music Histories
Academics at the University of Liverpool are working on an AHRC funded project in partnership with the UK museum sector to develop effective strategies for collecting, preserving, representing, and interpreting popular music.
UWE historians (Dresser and Fleming) were co-opted to advise on the contents of the MShed Museum scheduled to open in 2011
History, Heritage and Public Engagement
A unique public engagement project led by the School of History at University of East Anglia (UEA), benefitting students, the university, local heritage partners and the community.
Researcher Curator is an AHRC-funded project running in partnership between Nottingham University, Nottingham Trent University and the Galleries of Justice. It is targeted at researchers from non-museums backgrounds.
On October 11, 2010 the British Library Science, Technology, Medicine team hosted its first public facing event ‘Do you Hear What I Hear?’ in partnership with UCL Neuroscience at the British Library Conference Centre.
How MMU and people in Hulme and Moss Side came together to breath new life into film archive collections. In 2009 MMU's Northwest Film archive worked alongside a local cultural broadcaster on a public engagement fellowship project using archive footage as a platform to co-create a new short...
University engagement at the Eisteddfod
Techniquest and Cardiff University worked in partnership to develop a range of interactive exhibits to engage people in research carried out by the university, to celebrate Cardiff University’s 125th anniversary at the National Eisteddfod (Europe’s largest cultural festival), at subsequent...
Using special events (e.g., Apple Day) to enable researchers and academics to engage with the wider public. It started as information about apples, apple tasting, access to archive materials and a talk. It has become a larger scale event including activities for all the family and the opportunity...
Trinity College Dublin are marrying the universities knowledge with the expertise of people with aphasia, to develop a framework to support student assessment in the Department of Clinical Speech and Language
Embedding recognition for public engagement into promotions criteria at UEA
A set of promotions criteria on Enterprise and Engagement has been developed to reward those who get involved in engagement at UEA – to try to tackle the perception amongst staff that time spent on public engagement isn’t formally recognised by the university.
Early Career Researcher Awards
Vitae North West Hub and the Manchester Beacon collaborated to support researcher development through PE and mentoring to five projects in the North West region
Collaborative oral history research project to create an animated film marking the 40th anniversary of the salvage and return of the ss Great Britain to Bristol
Manchester Beacon Science Festival Community Awards 2010
Fostering new partnerships between research networks and community groups. This case study explores the role of the Museum as a bridge to build links between universities and community groups.
Dundee Science Centre developed ‘Create and Inspire’ training for researchers and scientists to help them learn about the style and ethos of science communication in a science centre context.
Accessing our National Heritage
The Adult Education Centre at University College Dublin and the National Library of Ireland commenced collaboration in 2008 to harness and leverage the resources and exhibitions of the National Library for the benefit of adult learners.
How can Beacons help foster change within institutional culture? This was the starting point for the Manchester Beacon Steering Group, who recognised that this change could be encouraged within certain contexts.
Step Up- Community Leadership Programme
Step Up was a bespoke leadership development programme led by the Manchester Beacon and Council of Ethnic Minority Voluntary Sector Organisations, designed to support and mentor leaders from the BAME communities.
Developing low carbon neighbourhoods: a collaborative action research project in Newcastle
Improving university engagement with communities and neighbourhoods in Newcastle upon Tyne to discern local visions and actions relevant to building low carbon communities/neighbourhoods
Beacon North East Co-inquiry Action Research (CAR) Project
Members from BE North East, community group, Thrive, Durham University and Newcastle University formed co-enquiry action research group to research co-enquiry
Sustainable Living and the Older Community
A campaign to engage the older (65+) UK community in public debate on sustainable living and what it means to them.
‘Robotic Visions’ involved roboticists and science centres working together to engage young adults in dialogue on the future of robotics research.
PE at the University of Bristol
Public engagement in most of its guises has been a feature of life at the University of Bristol for many years.
Cross-Institutional Collaboration
The aim of this initiative was to help establish effective support for public engagement activities across the Edinburgh Beltane partnership.
Intergenerational Reminiscence Project
The Intergenerational Reminiscence Project aims to break down barriers between the elderly and local school children through student volunteer facilitated workshops, which focus on two-way communication of knowledge and life experience.
UCL Step Out and other adventures
A collaboration between UCL's public engagement unit and their volunteering services unit to encourage postgraduate students to develop public engagement projects.
A collaborative one-day informal learning & community engagement event themed around aspects of medieval society to celebrate Adult Learners Week, held at Cosmeston, a reconstructed medieval village near Cardiff
Rising Stars: Cambridge University
Many senior academics are great communicators and ambassadors for their subjects. We wanted to help those who are just starting out in their careers to develop these essential skills.
All My Worldly Possessions: The Guernsey Evacuee Experience
Exploring the Guernsey Evacuee Experience enabled university researcher Gill Mawson to talk about her work and the Bury Archives. Sharing the stories of evaluees made the Archives and university research more accessible to the general public.
The UCL Public Engagement Unit works to embed public engagement into University life and trains up academics to take part in FameLab, the international science communication competition
London Higher conducted a two year project to examine public perceptions of how London's higher education institutions interact with local communities.
Nottingham Trent University and the Galleries of Justice Museum are currently working together to deliver a vocational qualification called the Professional Certificate in Heritage Tourism to provide entry-level training. Thereby opening up a new way the sector to help diversify the workforce.
Quality Streets - Participatory research in Stoke’s UniQ
Quality Streets is a participatory consultation in the neighbourhood of the University. The project involved local residents and workers, and students as a community research team to find out what people think about the area.
Is there chemistry when Miss Sulphate meets Mr Copper? Can you turn your pennies into gold? University of Manchester researchers worked with the Museum of Science and Industry to develop four interactive experiences on corrosion science for the Manchester Science Festival – with resounding success!
A 24 hour bodiversity study carried out in six university campuses across the country in 2010, offering a diversity of student volunteering opportunities and engaging people from across communities.
Since 2005 occupational therapy students have participated in the Study of Occupation course from first to fourth year, a component of which involves service-learning through the ‘Study of Occupation Practice’ (SOOP) course.
Social Policy into Practice - learning through volunteering
An optional 20 credit module in the second year of the BA Social Policy degree at the University of Birmingham. It enables students to volunteer locally, giving an opportunity to gain practical experience of organisations and settings in which social policy is put into practice at ‘ground level’...
Two to the Left, Two to the Right
A fun event to raise awareness of the positive impact of students in the community.
At the centre of Staging the Henrician Court research project was a full-scale public production of John Heywood's The Play of the Weather in the Great Hall at Hampton Court Palace. The project included other public engagement activities including public lectures and theatrical workshops.
Understanding Environmental Knowledge Controversies
The Ryedale Flood Research Group and the 'Understanding Environmental Knowledge Controversies' Project is an excellent example of developing effective ways of engaging citizens in interdisciplinary scientific work.
The Museum of English Rural Life seeks to capitalise on the expertise of the wider research community to give its temporary exhibitions increased relevance and depth.
Kairos, Working Women Together (WWT)
Kairos WWT is a small organisation that recruits female-only volunteers to meet and offer friendship to women working on the street. They work with Warwick Volunteers to offer a wide range of volunteering experiences to Warwick students
