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The NCCPE has created a wealth of resources to support high-quality public engagement practice and policy. Search through our site for tools, guides, briefings, tools, collections and more to support your work.

Working in partnership

Are you hoping to develop a partnership as part of your engagement work? Our resources below will guide you through the process, from finding a partner to creating a sustainable working relationship.
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The Principles of Partnership Working

Want to work in partnership to develop your engagement work? This tutorial provides practical tools and content to help you develop your partnership approach and put it into practice.
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NCCPE Partnership Tools

A collection of partnership tools from NCCPE projects.
Guides
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Supporting partnerships

How to facilitate partnerships to underpin your engagement strategy

Evaluating your work

Embracing evaluation will help you monitor and improve your work! Have a look at our tools below and find out how to evidence the value of your engagement.
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Evaluation 101

This page offers an introduction to the four pillars of evaluation and how you can apply them to your engagement work. Explore the core principles and read through an example [...]
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A quick guide to evaluation

Evaluation is a critical friend of all those who want to develop their practice. Check out some of the key things to think about when planning evaluation and uncover its [...]
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How to evaluate your support for public engagement

This guide explains how you can develop an evaluation plan to track the effectiveness of your support programme. It shows how having a ‘theory of change’ provides a helpful focus [...]

Are you new to public engagement?

If this is all new to you, have a look at our resources below to get you started!
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Tools for talking about public engagement

This resource will help you initiate purposeful conversations about public engagement.
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A quick guide to developing high quality public engagement

How to get started in developing high quality practice.
Tutorials
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High Quality Engagement 101

This page offers an in-depth practical tutorial on how to apply the key principles of quality engagement to your work. There are several stages to work through so we suggest [...]

Making the case for public engagement

You're not alone! We have a wealth of resources to help you lobby for public engagement within your institution.
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Making the case: arguments for engaging with the public

Exploring ways of ‘making the case’ for engagement with the public.
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How public engagement helps create a more inclusive knowledge society

This briefing describes the outcomes that can arise from engaging with the public. It offers a working model to explain how universities can create value through their public engagement.
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Towards a Knowledge Base for University-Public Engagement

This paper summarises the findings and recommendations from an AHRC project, ‘Researching the Engaged University’ (2012).
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REF Collection
This collection gathers together the NCCPE’s work to support the Research Excellence Framework (REF) since it was first proposed in 2008 as the successor the Research Assessment Exercise. It starts [...]
Reports and reviews
Review of the REF 2021 Impact Case studies
In 2022 we repeated our analysis of the 2014 case studies, to map the ways in which public engagement featured across the 6000+ impact case studies. We reported a small [...]
Consultation responses
2017 REF consultation NCCPE response
NCCPE’s response to Lord Stern's recommendations about the review of the REF in 2016.
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REF 2021 Key Facts
This key facts leaflet summarises the results and describes how the process worked and the weightings of the different profiles.
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Review of the 2014 REF impact case studies
A review of REF 2014 case studies and environment statements. This extensive review revealed that nearly 50% of the submitted case studies featured some engagement with the public. It developed [...]
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Taking Stock of REF2014
A summary of an event for public engagement leads involved in REF 2014 submissions
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Sector briefing about REF 2012 guidance
A detailed summary of the REF 2014 guidance and its treatment of public engagement
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Discussion Paper: Assessing impacts arising from public engagement with research
A discussion paper that was commissioned by the REF team to support the REF 2014 panels to prepare guidance for assessing impacts arising from public engagement. Written in 2012
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NCCPE response to the REF 2014 consultation
The NCCPE’s first response to the proposed shape and focus of REF 2014, where we welcomed the inclusion of impact case studies and the opportunity to describe the contribution of [...]

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Learn from others!

Be inspired by our public engagement case studies, featuring a huge variety of engagement approaches from apocalyptic festivals to community peer researchers, and photo-voice projects to pen pal exchanges.
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The Turing Way

The Turing Way is an open-source, community-led, and collaboratively developed project. It is a handbook and a global community dedicated to making data science and research skills accessible, comprehensible, and [...]
18 July 2024
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OCD and the Brain: co-producing an online toolkit

OCD and the Brain brought together people living with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), University College London (UCL) researchers, OCD charities, and facilitators. They shared experiences of OCD, discussed the brain’s role [...]
22 October 2024
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Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence

Using activism, art, and academic research to challenge societal attitudes to sexual violence, and inspire action. A case study from Dr Rhea Sookdeosingh, Honorary Research Fellow at the School of [...]
12 July 2024
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Fair Funding: University of Edinburgh Community Grant Scheme

More than 200 community organisations in the City of Edinburgh, Fife, Lothians and Scottish Borders have been awarded funding from the University of Edinburgh's community grant scheme since it launched [...]
17 September 2024
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CAER Heritage Project (Caerau And Ely Rediscovering)

Nestled deep in a West Cardiff suburb, surrounded by houses, is one of the most important, yet little understood, prehistoric monuments in the region – Caerau Hillfort.
10 June 2014

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