Engage 2022 Live: Programme

9:30 - 11:45            

Plenary and workshops: Funding for Change

This interactive plenary and small group discussion session will provide inspiring and challenging insights to explore how we might reimagine how public engagement funding works. This session includes contributions from:

• The Ideas Fund team and some of their funded projects will explore what it means to provide funding for community led engagement, and how that can be sustained. What does this mean for how universities engage with communities? With Chris Manion (Head of Grants, British Science Association) and Lewis Hou (Founder and director of the Science Ceilidh).

• ScotPEN and University of Oxford will share insights from the devolved funding schemes they have run, seeking to improve the quality of public engagement with research. With Erin Hardee (Schools Outreach Officer, University of Dundee and ScotPEN) and Matt Hickman (Head of Public and Community Engagement with Research, University of Oxford).

• The UKRI Public Engagement team will take a systematic look at how to mobilise engagement funding, both through direct funding linked to their Public Engagement strategy, but also as UKRI as a whole. With Steve Scott (Head of PE, UKRI) and Jen Grove (Senior Programme Manager - Public Engagement).

With plenary input, and an opportunity to workshop some of the emerging ideas, this session will provide rich opportunities to reconsider the role of funding in stimulating high quality engagement. 

11:45 - 12:45                         

Poster Party

An opportunity for delegates to showcase their work, invite conversations and reflections, and to network together. 

12:45 - 13:30  

Lunch

13:30 - 15:00

Building Alliances for Change

An opportunity to hear from a range of organisations committed to high quality engagement, and to workshop with them around common challenges and agendas that matter to us all. 

This session includes input from networks including the National Centre for Universities and Business; The National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange (NCACE); the Civic University Network; the Capabilities in Academic Policy Engagement (CAPE) and Universities Policy Engagement Network, and the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement.

15:00 - 15:30  

 Break

15:30 - 16:45

Plenary: Reimagining the future

Final plenary session featuring challenging and provocative perspectives on the future of engagement and knowledge creation. Steven Hill from Research England, Cassie Robinson (Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Power to Change, Former Deputy Director of Funding Strategy at The National Lottery Community Fund) and Nick Ishmael-Perkins from The International Science Council will share perspectives from their own work and practice. They will encourage us to reimagine our work, and to refresh how we make the case for public engagement in rapidly changing and uncertain times. 

9:15 - 9:30

Welcome to Engage 

Join in the pre-conference fun and join Jamie as he meets delegates – both those who are attending the Live conference and those online.

9:30 - 11:45   

Plenary and workshops: Funding for Change

This plenary and small group discussion session will provide inspiring and challenging insights to explore how we might reimagine how public engagement funding works. This session includes contributions from:

• The Ideas Fund team and some of their funded projects will explore what it means to provide funding for community led engagement, and how that can be sustained. What does this mean for how universities engage with communities? With Chris Manion (Head of Grants, British Science Association) and Lewis Hou (Founder and director of the Science Ceilidh).

• ScotPEN and University of Oxford will share insights from the devolved funding schemes they have run, seeking to improve the quality of public engagement with research. With Erin Hardee (Schools Outreach Officer, University of Dundee and ScotPEN) and Matt Hickman (Head of Public and Community Engagement with Research, University of Oxford).

• The UKRI Public Engagement team will take a systematic look at how to mobilise engagement funding, both through direct funding linked to their Public Engagement strategy, but also as UKRI as a whole. With Steve Scott (Head of PE, UKRI) and Jen Grove (Senior Programme Manager - Public Engagement).

With plenary input, and an opportunity to workshop some of the emerging ideas with online delegates, this session will provide rich opportunities to reconsider the role of funding in stimulating high quality engagement. There will be an opportunity to post questions via the online chat, following the talk and online discussion groups. 

11:45 - 12:00 

Screen break

12:00 - 12:45 

Poster Party

Come with your host Jamie Gallagher to visit some of our posters and the people behind them!

12:45 - 13:30 

Lunch

13:30 – 15:00

Building Alliances for Change

An opportunity to hear from a range of organisations committed to to high quality engagement, and to join other online delegates to workshop common challenges and agendas that matter to us all. 

This session includes input from networks including the National Centre for Universities and Business; The National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange (NCACE); the Civic University Network; the Capabilities in Academic Policy Engagement (CAPE) and Universities Policy Engagement Network, and the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement.

15:00 – 15:30

Screen break

15:30 – 16:45

Plenary: Reimagining the future

Final plenary session featuring challenging and provocative perspectives on the future of engagement and knowledge creation. Steven Hill from Research England, Cassie Robinson (Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Power to Change, Former Deputy Director of Funding Strategy at The National Lottery Community Fund) and Nick Ishmael-Perkins from The International Science Council will share perspectives from their own work and practice. They will encourage us to reimagine our work, and to refresh how we make the case for public engagement in rapidly changing and uncertain times. 

There will be an opportunity to post questions via the online chat, following the talk and online discussions groups.