Literature Reviews and Research

The NCCPE is committed to demonstrating a sound evidence base for public engagement. To do this, we are commissioning select research syntheses or literature reviews, and will also consider new research as a tool for evidence gathering and sharing. This research is informing our work and we hope will be useful to others interested in public engagement in higher education. All our publications will be available online.

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The call for Proposals for NCCPE - ESRC Research Synthesis proposals is now open. Find out more. 

Current Publications

All our research syntheses and literature reviews will be available on our website.

Auditing, Benchmarking and Evaluating Public Engagement

Angie Hart, Simon Northmore, Chloe Gerhardt.

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.

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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).

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Student Volunteering Initiative Research

We are also commissioning research as part of our student volunteering initiative. We have published a research synthesis on Student Volunteering - Background, policy and context. Find out more.