Engage programme Engage programme day 1: wednesday 5th day 2: thursday 6th
9.30am – 10.00am Registration and tea/coffee at Specialist Workshop venues 9.00am – 9.30am Registration and tea/coffee
10.00am – 12.30pm Specialist Workshops: 9.30am – 10.15am Welcome and Plenary: Where are we now? • M-Shed • Phil Newton, Director, Science Delivery, Natural Environment Research Council M-Shed: The People’s Museum: Based on a case study of the M-Shed, this workshop • Shearer West, Head of Humanities, Oxford University will look at how museums and higher education institutions (HEIs) are working together • David Hughes, Chief Executive, NIACE • Council House • Session chair: Sophie Duncan, NCCPE Creative Partnerships: New forms of collaboration and exchange – exploring (Please note tea/coffee will be available throughout the morning plenary session) perspectives of those not in HEIs who have attempted to develop partnerships with HEIs • Bristol Hotel 10.30am – 11.50am Workshops (see page 12 for further details): Public Engagement with Health Research: what can we learn from patient involvement in health research, and how the culture has changed to support it? RCUK How to Community Modelling Evaluating
Pathways motivate partners’ culture public to Impact researchers network change engagement 12.45pm – 2.00pm Lunch at The Bristol Hotel to engage
2.00pm – 2.45pm Welcome and Plenary: Navigating Change • David Sweeney, Director (Research, Innovation and Skills), HEFCE 12.00pm – 1.00pm Public Engagement Showcase (see page 14 for further details): • Paul Manners, Director, NCCPE • 12 projects share their experiences and approach • Session chair: Sophie Duncan, NCCPE • 12.00 – 12.30pm workshop sessions; 12.30 – 1.00pm drop-in sessions
3.00pm – 4.30pm Workshops (see page 10 for further details): 1.00pm – 2.00pm Lunch
Evaluating Public Broadcasting Breaking Engaged
research engagement for public down the learning 2.00pm – 2.45pm ‘in conversation’ (see page 16 for further details): impact with risk engagement barriers • Conversation sessions with key leaders in engagement from across the world
2.45pm - 3.15pm Tea and coffee break 4.30pm – 5.00pm Tea and coffee break
3.15pm – 4.15pm Closing plenary: What next for public engagement? 5.00pm – 5.30pm Plenary: Broadening the horizons of heritage: a view from the Heritage Lottery Fund • April McMahon, Vice Chancellor, Aberystwyth University • Carole Souter: Chief Executive, HLF • Jesús Granados, Research and Content Coordinator, GUNi • Session chair: Sophie Duncan, NCCPE • Session chair: Kathy Sykes, University of Bristol
6.45pm – 8.15pm Launch Event 4.15pm Conference end • The Future of the Engaged University
Please note: 8.15pm – 9.45pm Conference Reception • Our plenary sessions are held in the Ballroom. • The workshops will be held in rooms on the ground floor. • Details will be provided at the registration desk in the Conference Centre Foyer. • Coffee will be available all day in the William Jessop Lounge. • Lunch will be served in The River Grille, The Shore Bar and the Conference Centre Foyer.
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judgements for themselves and their children in many areas, the Biographies: working closely with the development team in order to embed Evaluating research impact: How can we tell influences on and determinants of their decisions can be diverse. Alice is a clinical anatomist and Professor of Public Engagement public engagement in the role of a researcher. Parents allowing their children to be enrolled in research studies in Science at the University of Birmingham. She has presented a if research has made a difference? involving vaccines can have an additional level of uncertainty range of programmes on BBC2 including Coast, Wild Swimming, to handle. This session will describe and explore how parents The Incredible Human Journey, Origins of Us, and Prehistoric Workshop Leaders: approach the issue of childhood immunisation, how parents can Autopsy. She is also to be heard occasionally on Radio 4 and has Engaged learning: Public engagement and the Trevor Collins, Open University; Sarah Morton, University of engage in clinical research involving vaccines and how research authored four popular science books about anatomy and human taught curriculum Edinburgh; Steven Marwick, Evaluation Support Scotland. into the way people make important decisions can help us evolution. understand how better to implement immunisation programmes. Workshop Leaders: How confident are you in assessing the impact of research through This workshop will be of value to those engaging in research Bruce is a Canadian-born experimental psychologist who Maggie Leggett and Kate Miller, University of Bristol; David Owen, public engagement and knowledge exchange activities? This (participant or researcher) where decisions about participation are specialises in developmental cognitive neuroscience and is NCCPE. workshop aims to explore what we know about assessing research coloured by individual and societal views on what is acceptable Director of the Bristol Cognitive Development Centre, based at impact and why it matters. It will explore common approaches and what is safe. the University of Bristol. He is also a research fellow at Cambridge Public engagement continues to play a growing role within the to evaluating impact and discuss the key challenges, such as University and University College London, a visiting scientist at MIT taught curriculum as universities seek to meet the needs of their when and how to assess impact, and how to attribute change Biographies: and a faculty professor at Harvard. locality, whilst developing students with the skills and attributes to research. During the session we will consider practical steps Adam is Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Bristol that enable them to contribute to society. This workshop will to improve the quality of engagement activities by including and honorary consultant in paediatric infectious diseases and Matthew Dodd is Head of Speech programmes and Presentation at provide perspectives from students, community partners and appropriate evaluation techniques and we will explore some of immunology at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children. He directs the BBC Radio 3, where he oversees programmes such as the nightly academics involved in engaged learning. We will invite delegates these in more depth. By the end, participants will have a clearer South West Local Research Network for Medicines for Children discussion programme Night Waves, The Essay, Free Thinking – to join in discussion around how engaged learning can help tackle picture of the issues of research impact assessment and some and also leads the paediatric immunology and infectious diseases Radio 3’s annual festival of ideas, and the New Generation major local issues and ways to include the less obvious subjects. tools that they can use in their own work. clinical service for Bristol and the South West region. Thinkers Scheme, a partnership between the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Biographies: Biographies: Margaret is a Children’s Nurse by background and Professor of Maggie joined the University of Bristol as Head of the Centre Trevor is a Research Fellow in Technology-Enhanced Learning Clinical Nursing at the University of the West of England, Bristol for Public Engagement in January 2008. Previously, as Head of at the OU’s Knowledge Media Institute. He has a background with UHBristol NHS Foundation Trust, and a Co-Director of the Public Engagement at the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences in Computer Engineering and specialises in the design and South West Medicines for Children Local Research Network. Breaking down the barriers Research Council (BBSRC), Maggie led projects including national development of educational technology. public dialogues on specific areas of research and developed Alex’s research concerns modelling and understanding collective Workshop Leaders: touring exhibitions on subjects including biodiversity and the use of Sarah has a background in social research, policy and practice, ``herding’’ behaviour in society, and testing these models against Dr Lucy Leiper and Heather Doran, University of Aberdeen. animals in research. and is currently working as knowledge exchange specialist in the real-world phenomena. Alex has applied his work to real- Centre for Research on Families and Relationships and the Scottish world problems in government policy, NGOs and community This session will explore a new approach to researcher Kate’s role is to provide advice and support to staff and students School for Public Health Research at the University of Edinburgh. development, including projects with the Department of Health development. At the University of Aberdeen, we have developed wishing to get involved in public engagement activities. This (in their effort to promote safe-sex practices), Sanofi Pasteur a strategy for progressive researcher empowerment whereby the includes helping researchers develop, evaluate and obtain Steven advises charities and voluntary organisations to help them pharmaceuticals (on vaccination behaviours) and the Gates provision of skills and personal development is closely coupled resources for their projects and working with academics to evaluate impact. He is particularly involved in helping groups to Foundation (on public awareness of global health issues). His with tangible and real life opportunities to put skills into practice articulate public engagement as part of Pathways to Impact develop self-evaluation processes in order to become providers of recent book is called I’ll Have What She’s Having: Mapping Social through public engagement and other channels. We will explore the statements and REF case studies. ‘learning in evidence’. Behaviour (MIT Press, 2011). model, share good practice and investigate new ways to engage researchers to get involved, demonstrate their progress and embed David is Project Manager at the NCCPE. He manages a range of public engagement in the research process. externally funded projects that contribute to the centre’s goal to Public engagement with risk: Parental decision Broadcasting for public engagement increase the social and public value of universities. Biographies: making around childhood immunisation? Formerly a developmental biologist, Lucy is now in charge of Workshop Leaders: Researcher Development at the University of Aberdeen. Lucy Professor Alice Roberts, University of Birmingham; Professor Bruce Workshop Leaders: is responsible for ensuring that development opportunities and Hood: University of Bristol; Mathew Dodd, BBC Radio 3; Adam Finn and Alex Bentley, University of Bristol; training provision complements internal strategies and is aligned Sophie Duncan, NCCPE. Margaret Fletcher, University of the West of England. to research council expectations and the national researcher development agenda. Parents have to make health decisions on behalf of their children. Broadcast media is one way in which researchers can reach large numbers of people to share information about their research. How Vaccines prevent disease in the recipients and reduce transmission Heather’s passion for public engagement began during her PhD, can these broadcast opportunities lead to further engagement of infection more broadly, thus benefitting society. As diseases where she established the Au Magazine – Aberdeen’s very own with research? What are some of the different ways broadcasters prevented by vaccines become rarer, the risks of getting them fall student-led science magazine. She is actively involved in numerous and academics can work together to help make this happen? This and fear of them recedes. Receiving vaccines can carry modest national and international outreach projects. Heather recently session will explore these questions and some of your own in a risks of minor side effects and very small finite or theoretical risks joined the Public Engagement with Research team and will be of severe side effects. Although parents routinely make risk benefit front and back dialogue.
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research and fully integrated into the work of universities. How do Biographies: Robin is the lead academic on the University of Exeter’s Catalyst Research Councils UK (RCUK) Pathways to Impact: we meet this challenge? How can we make researchers believe in Sharon is a freelance creative practitioner with over twenty years’ project. Robin is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and has research and initiate engagement activities? experience in the field of youth and children’s work. She is based interests deriving from complexity theory in health and community Public engagement case studies in Portsmouth and works with the University of Portsmouth to change. A European-wide survey by ESF Member Organisation Forum strengthen their partnerships with the Somerstown community. Workshop Leaders: on Science in Society Relationships will be presented by Camilla Sharon is Head of Community Partnerships at the University of Ruth Williams, RCUK; Phil Newton, Natural Environment Research Modéer. A review of activities and methods used in various Susanne is a researcher at GMCVO, a sub-regional VCS Nottingham. Her background is in the third sector and social Council and Public Engagement Champion for RCUK Research European countries to foster public engagement will be presented infrastructure organisation, where she conducts research with and enterprise, as a practitioner and researcher. She has taught social Group. by Maria Lindholm and action research that looks at the enablers about the third sector in Greater Manchester. She runs the Greater policy in Higher Education and has a particular research interest in and barriers to embedding engagement into academic culture will Manchester Third Sector Research Network, a forum where the public role of the university and in adult education. Pathways to Impact are included within Research Councils’ also be discussed. academics and VCS staff can come together to discuss research application and assessment processes to encourage applicants issues. Rick is the Open University’s (OU) Champion for Public to explore, from the outset, who could potentially benefit from Biographies: Engagement with Research. He has overall operational their work in the longer term, and to consider what could be Cissi is Secretary General at VA (Public & Science), a Swedish Russell Hogarth, Honorary Fellow, Chair, Independent Community responsibility for co-ordinating and leading all aspects of the OU done to increase the chances of their research reaching those non-profit association aimed at promoting dialogue and openness Involvement Team. Associate Lecturer [Comensus] School of Catalyst project, and helping to shape the university’s strategic beneficiaries. In this session we want to highlight some of the case between the public and researchers. She has also worked as a Health & Social Work University of Central Lancashire. objectives for public engagement with research. studies we have recently developed on the different approaches news reporter, a producer and as Communications Director at to public engagement as a Pathway to Impact. The session will the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and at the David Wolff is Director of University of Brighton’s Community include personal accounts from researchers featured in the case Swedish Radio among others. University Partnership Programme (www.brighton.ac.uk/cupp). studies and RCUK guidance. This workshop will also provide an Prior to this he worked in the community and voluntary sector, Evaluating Public Engagement: What questions opportunity for participants to ask questions and discuss their Maria has been Director of Research of VA since September primarily in services for street homeless people. work for you? approaches with other delegates. 2012. She received her PhD in Language and Culture in Europe from Linköping University in 2007. Her thesis dealt with the Workshop Leaders: Biographies: communicative practices of the European Commission. After Suzanne Spicer, University of Manchester; Becci Feltham, NCCPE. Ruth studied for a degree in experimental psychology at the her PhD, Maria worked as a lecturer and researcher, but mainly Modelling culture change: Using theories to shape University of Bristol, then joined the Economic and Social outside academia, at the Swedish Medical Association, the strategy and action Evaluation is the art of asking the right questions. This interactive Research Council as a psychology case officer. In 2008, Ruth Swedish Association of University Teachers and at the European session will explore the nature of questions, and how they can joined the RCUK Strategy Unit as an Impact Policy Manager, and Commission. Workshop Leaders: be used to uncover unique insights into your public engagement subsequently became a Senior Policy Manager within the Public Helen Featherstone and Robin Durie, University of Exeter; activity, and the impact it has. Aimed at people with experience of Engagement with Research Team, supporting the RCUK Sharon Clancy, University of Nottingham; Richard Holliman, evaluation, the workshop will encourage participants to develop Public Engagement with Research Strategy. Open University; Paul Manners, NCCPE. effective questions that will ensure that their evaluation is fit for Community Partners – challenges and opportunities purpose and REF-ready. If questions mean questionnaires to you – Following a degree in chemistry (Bristol) and a PhD in for a UK Community Partners’ Network What does it take to change the culture of a university, and to don’t be put off. We will explore how creative evaluation techniques oceanography (UEA), Phil worked as a NERC and Royal Society embed public engagement within cultures of research? Like can be embedded into your activity, and help you answer the funded marine biogeochemist, and subsequently headed a marine Workshop Leaders: many others we are working to find answers to this question. This questions that matter to you. research group within the French Atomic Energy Agency. Phil then Steve Pool, Freelancer, Film & Media; Sharon Court, Freelance workshop will be particularly suitable for those who support, or are spent five years as an editor at Nature, with responsibility for the Creative Practitioner; Susanne Martikke, Greater Manchester responsible for developing, a culture of public engagement within Biographies: journal’s environmental science content, before joining NERC. Centre for Voluntary Organisation; Russell Hogarth, University of an academic community. We will discuss different approaches to Suzanne has over 20 years in public engagement. Currently Social Central Lancashire; David Wolff, University of Brighton. culture change, involving three of the eight universities taking part Responsibility Manager at the University of Manchester, Suzanne in the RCUK-funded Catalyst programme: Nottingham University, believes that reflection and learning from experience are essential How best to motivate researchers to engage Community-university partnerships (CUPs) in research hold the who are using Communities of Practice; The Open University, who to being a good engager. promise of leveraging two different sets of expertise, for the are using Action Research; and The University of Exeter, who are with the public benefit of each partner and for that of the communities they serve. using Complexity Theory. We will also draw on the work of the Becci looks after the Public Engagement Ambassador scheme and However, this potential can only be realised if both partners are NCCPE in supporting culture change within higher education. supports NCCPE projects and communications. Workshop Leaders: equally empowered to influence the work such CUPs do. Join Take part in this workshop to hear how these models are shaping Cissi Askwall and Maria Lindholm, Vetenskap & Allmänhet, Sweden the organisers of the first-ever UK Community Partners’ Network intervention strategies, and share your experiences. (Public & Science); Camilla Modéer, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, to discuss how such a network could empower community Sweden; Sophie Duncan, NCCPE. partners to get the most out of their work with universities, as well Biographies: as providing a one-stop shop for those interested in CUPs. The Helen is leading the University of Exeter’s Catalyst project. A failure to listen to the fears and concerns of society endangers workshop will outline progress so far and give an opportunity for Helen’s background is in public engagement with science as both the trust people have in research and the success of research itself. stakeholder input. practitioner and academic. Therefore, public engagement must become an intrinsic part of
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Title: Active Science: Possible You will be invited to think about how Title: Public engagement through the Title: From patient and public Title: Catalyst presents… Patchworks Title: Creating publics extension to an international dimension you can foster innovative and joyful curriculum: Science Shops involvement to co-design: Showcase Leaders: Sharon Calverley Showcase Leader: Dr Nick Mahony, Showcase Leader: Andrea De Bortoli, collaborations with higher education Showcase Leaders: Emma McKenna and new paradigms for health research and Dave Hagan, Signposts; Open University Inter-University Centre Agora Scienza institutions and museums through an Eileen Martin, Science Shop, Queen’s Showcase Leaders: Dr Sonia Asa Calow, MadLab; Rod Dillon, interactive mapping exercise. University Belfast; Anna Kingston, Vougioukalou, King’s College London, Maria Angela Ferrario and Erinma Ochu, Summary: Summary: University College Cork, and Madge Melanie Gager, Royal Berkshire NHS Lancaster University When we talk of ‘the public’ in ‘public ‘Active Science’ is a widely tested Fogarty, Postnatal Depression Ireland Foundation Trust, Matt Wiltshire, ICU engagement’, what do we mean? How approach, using innovative tools for science Title: Hiding in the pub to cutting Patient Support Group Summary: are contemporary publics formed? What communication and scientific citizenship. the cord? A creative approach to Summary: Curious about how technology might support resources are needed to play a role in Almost entirely based on the use of the Web, public engagement Science Shops work within universities, Summary: social change in your community? Then join these mediation processes? To explore it is founded on the processes of deliberative Showcase Leader: Dr Laura King, reaching out to community organisations This workshop will discuss new ways of the Patchworks team to see how scientists, these questions, in theory and in practice, democracy. It provides new insights to Arts Engaged, University of Leeds who want research carried out and linking engaging patients and relatives in healthcare volunteers and homeless people have co- this showcase previews early results of a teachers and students about current them with students who need to carry research, not as passive participants in designed #PAT, a prototype using cheap three-year Open University project called problems of modern science, and aims at Summary: out a research project as part of their complementary activities but as co-designers technology to help the homeless in their Creating Publics. There will be a short making the students themselves the main This session will focus on a public degree. This model places a premium on of improved services. Experience-based everyday lives. Talk to the team, meet #PAT, exercise to draw out differences between actors of the learning process by stimulating engagement project which was run by Laura understanding what the community wants. co-design methodology was adapted, watch videos and find out how #PAT is used ‘audiences’, ‘publics’ and ‘users’. We will their curiosity, creativity and critical thinking. King at the University of Warwick in 2011/12. It makes academic knowledge available and using materials from a national archive of by homeless people to remind them of key also be introducing plans for a new digital ‘Active Science’ links the world of scientific This was based on Laura’s historical research accessible and can contribute to local policy patient experiences held at the University of appointments. platform that aims to archive, showcase research – researchers - with the school - into fatherhood in Britain, and involved and research and ultimately can make a Oxford, to accommodate the current need and encourage further innovation in the teachers and students - thanks to a wide partnerships with cultural organisations, such positive impact on people’s lives. for speedier healthcare innovations. Staff, Patchworks is a collaboration between increasingly varied and exciting field panel of experts who offer the participants as a theatre group and a poetry publisher. patients and relatives worked together in Morecambe-based community support of participative, public and democratic their expertise with suitable, up to date Laura will give a short introduction to the This workshop will be interactive and will co-design groups to plan and materialise group, Signposts, Manchester DIY experiments. material and direct dialogue. project and show a 15-minute documentary offer an opportunity to discuss Science mutually agreed priorities for improvement innovators, MadLab and Lancaster film of these events, followed by a Q&A/ Shops, including how they work, how they in intensive care and lung cancer services academics from biology, management, The showcase will be organised in the form discussion of how engaging with cultural have become embedded within universities in two NHS Foundation Trusts. This study computing and sociology. Patchworks is Title: Tackling ethical challenges in of a Scenario Workshop in order to debate industries can produce exciting and and how they co-operate internationally via is funded by the Service Delivery and part of Catalyst, a research project based community-based participatory research and share possible operative strategies, innovative impact activities. In the drop-in the Living Knowledge Network and the EC- Organisation Programme of the National at Lancaster University and funded by the Showcase leaders: Sarah Banks, Centre aimed at extending ‘Active Science’ to a session, delegates will be able to experience funded Public Engagement with Research and Institute for Health Research, reference Engineering and Physical Sciences Research for Social Justice and Community Action, European dimension. some of the project’s outputs through a Research Engagement with Society project. 10/1009/14. Council. Durham University visual exhibition and audio recordings. www.catalystproject.org.uk Summary: Title: UAL and V&A: Delightful Title: Rhetoric or reality Title: Durham University Business This showcase will introduce a recently engagement & spectacular insights Title: Cells, genes, mutation and cancer Showcase Leaders: Lisa Malihi-Shoja School: Delivering public engagement Title: Cracking nature’s code produced guide – Community-based Showcase Leaders: Jo Morrison, Showcase Leader: Karen Reed, Cardiff and Ernie Mallen, University of through volunteering Showcase Leaders: Erinma Ochu, MOSI; Participatory Research: A Guide to Ethical University of the Arts London, & Leanne School of Biosciences Central Lancashire Showcase Leader: Vicky Ridley, Caroline Ward, BBC Outreach and Principles and Practice – along with Manfredi, Victoria and Albert Museum Durham University Jonathan Swinton accompanying case materials and exercises Summary: Summary: for promoting ethical awareness, reflection Summary: Shockingly, more than a quarter of people The showcase will examine the reality and Summary: Summary: and action. Funded by the AHRC Connected Connections between the University of the do not realise that good lifestyle choices restraints in achieving genuine authentic Durham University Staff Volunteering & Join the Turing’s Sunflowers team to explore Communities programme, these were Arts London and the V&A are myriad and (like healthy eating, taking regular exercise user and carer involvement, examining Outreach team has worked extensively how sunflower growers from around the developed by community partners and diverse. This session explores how, at a time etc.) can reduce your risk of developing issues of tokenism, authenticity and barriers with Durham University Business School to world contributed to the mathematical story academics, following public consultation, of significant flux within the higher education cancer. We have developed an informal to involvement. We will work together with engage community partners in their work, of how sunflowers grow. We’ll present the coordinated by the Centre for Social Justice and museums sectors, institutions can workshop which deploys hands-on activities, the audience on finding solutions to these particularly in non-research related activities. results, showcase the growers’ gallery and and Community Action, Durham University collaborate to build and sustain valuable using play-dough and children’s building issues. We will introduce a variety of tools Through a round table discussion and case Turing’s sunflower film, crowd-sourced from and published by NCCPE. public engagement activities, student blocks to explain “what are cells?” and and methods for examining involvement and study material, this session will explore how growers and produced by BBC Outreach. learning experiences and much more. “what is cancer?”, combined with DNA engage the audience in mapping their current DBS has engaged with local community Turing’s Sunflowers is a MOSI initiative The first 30 minutes will comprise a round models and other props to explain “what situation. We will then together examine the groups, bringing together their staff, students in association with Manchester Science table discussion, introducing the process of The informal workshop draws on knowledge are genes?” and “why DNA damage causes reality of achieving authentic involvement in and third sector organisations. In particular, Festival and supported by The University of developing the materials, sharing common gained from the past three years of cancer”. Participants gain an increased today’s climate and culture. The format will we’ll explore how students enrolled on MA Manchester and Manchester City Council. ethical challenges and considering how the collaboration between the university and awareness of how DNA damage occurs and be a round table debate with full audience Marketing, MA Social Marketing and MBA www.turingsunflowers.com guide and case studies might be used. the museum - often with leading cultural an understanding how this affects lifetime participation when mapping and finding programmes are working with community www.publicengagement.ac.uk/how and industry partners – and shares cancer risk, thereby facilitating an increased solutions. groups to develop marketing and strategic www.durham.ac.uk/beacon/socialjustice practical recommendations for successful appreciation of the impact lifestyle choices business plans. partnership. can have on cancer risk.
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Theme title: New collaboration Biography: Theme title: More Than Words Festival Theme Title: Research for community Biography: resulting Strategic Vision, which positions for engagement with scientists Nevin serves as Senior Fellow with Siena Theme leader, Claire McGinn, Radio 4 heritage Martin Taylor is Professor of Geography at SFU as Canada’s most community engaged Theme leader: Laura Holland, Italian Studies. He is involved in the and Dr Shawn Sobers, University of the Theme Leaders: Jenni Chambers with the University of Victoria, a position he has research university. Diamond Light Source development of the International Center for West of England representatives from All our stories held since 1998. From 2007-2012, he was Intercultural Exchange (of which Siena Italian project teams, AHRC and the HLF the founding President and CEO of Ocean Theme details: Studies is a unit), including organisation Theme details: Networks Canada, responsible for the ONC Theme title: A Discussion on Many scientists in the UK carry out at least part and implementation of conferences and The workshop will provide plenty of Theme details: ocean observatory, one of Canada’s major Digital Engagement – Doing, of their work at research facilities. At Diamond, symposia on intercultural education issues, opportunity to discuss the experience of Research for Community Heritage 2012 has science initiatives. From 1998-2007, he Monitoring and Evidencing we have a research community of over 5,000 engagement in proposal development for BBC Radio 4 producers, university staff and seen an exciting new partnership between served as the University of Victoria’s Vice- Theme leaders: Kent McClymont, Exeter users, from all over the UK and in almost presentations to other conferences and students involved in the More Than Words the AHRC, the Heritage Lottery Fund and President Research. Prior to that, he was on University; Monae Verbeke, Warwick every discipline. This discussion will ask how proposals for funding new initiatives, and festival and will explore topics such as the NCCPE, to provide researcher support to the faculty at McMaster University (1974-98), University; Simon Whittemore, JISC universities and facilities can work together overall advice on organisational development Control vs Creativity; National vs Local; and community groups in developing proposals where he was chair of Geography (1991- to help researchers discuss this aspect and management. Collaboration and Reciprocity. More Than to a special fund called All Our Stories, and 97) and founding director of the Institute Theme details: of their work, and the resources already www.sienaitalianstudies.com Words was the UK’s first festival of listening to continue this support as groups undertake of Environment and Health (1990-96). He An in conversation session on new ways to available. Is there anything else research www.ticfie.com which took place in Bristol in February 2012. their projects. Join representatives from holds a BA (Hons Geography) from Bristol better monitor and measure engagement institutes can offer, to bring together like- It was a multi-partner project that took the NCCPE, HLF, AHRC, AHRC-funded University and an MA and PhD in Geography activities and evidence their impacts through minded scientists in new collaborations for place in various locations across the city, researchers and the community groups who from UBC. He is the author of two books and emerging technologies in the online sphere. engagement? Are universities aware of the role Theme title: Leading engagement including supermarkets and concert halls. have been working with heritage projects to over 100 peer-reviewed publications in the Kent and Monae have been exploring facilities can play in supporting engagement? Theme leader: April McMahon, BBC Radio 4 and other partners worked in hear about the mutual benefits of engagement. field of environmental and community health. these and related issues through the JISC Aberystwyth University this way for the first time and the experience funded Tracking Digital Impact (TDI) and Biography: provided rich learning for everyone. If you Biography: Public Engagement with Research Online Laura manages outreach and public Theme details: are interested in creative partnerships this Jenni Chambers is also currently on a part- Theme Title: Is social media the key (PERO) projects and will talk about and engagement activities for Diamond Light As a university leader, I want to encourage workshop is for you. time secondment with the NCCPE working to unlocking the Ivory Tower? lead a discussion of the findings from these Source, the UK’s synchrotron facility. She staff to engage: with the University’s strategic as a Project Manager for the Research for Theme Leader: Julie Ovenell-Carter, projects, their learning over the last six runs training and development for researchers priorities; with business; and of course with Biographies: Community Heritage Project. Jenni will be Simon Fraser University months, interactions with other researchers in engaging the public, and directs the the public and our community. What are the Clare McGinn is Head of BBC Audio & joined by a range of people who are involved and engagement specialists, and the programme of events at Diamond for schools best ways of doing so? How do we show we Music Production in Bristol. She runs a in this exciting project including community Theme details: challenges they encountered along the way. and the public. Previously, Laura managed value public engagement? For instance, at team of Bristol-based programme makers partners; academics; and funders. If, as Marshall McLuhan famously declared the Newcastle Science Festival, and has a Aberystwyth we have recently reconfigured working mainly for BBC Radio 4 who make in 1964, “the medium is the message,” then Biographies: background in cell biology and public health. our academic promotions system so we can radio documentaries, drama, readings this decade’s message is clearly all about Kent McClymont is an associate research take a much wider range of contributions and programmes like Poetry Please, Any Theme Title: Community based engagement. Indeed, can a university that fellow in computer science at the University into account. How can we reconcile the Questions, Farming Today and The Food research and knowledge mobilization: fails to master the strategy and tactics of Exeter. Kent is working on the Interfacing Theme title: Intercultural competence: need for a Public Engagement Strategy with Programme. In Spring 2012 she was the university engagement in Canada of online social networking claim to be a Research and Impact Systems (IRIS) and an essential skill for engagement the lively, spontaneous and varied nature of Director of More Than Words which was Theme Leader: Martin Taylor, Professor fully “engaged” university? Julie will share Tracking Digital Impact (TDI) projects. Theme leader: Nevin Brown, Siena engagement events? Radio 4’s first ever listening festival. of Geography, University of Victoria the many ways in which Canada’s Simon Italian Studies You can view Aberystwyth’s new strategic Fraser University (SFU) has embraced the Monae Verbeke is a doctorate candidate at plan here: www.aber.ac.uk/en/strategicplan. Dr Shawn Sobers is a senior lecturer in Theme details: possibilities (and faced the challenges) the University of Warwick. Her interests are Theme details: photography and media at UWE and As a researcher and senior university of online communications to distinguish in informal education, public engagement, University community engagement entails Biography: a filmmaker, writer, photographer and research administrator, Martin has played itself in a crowded field, and to strengthen and impact evaluation. Currently, she is the the need for developing greater intercultural April became Vice-Chancellor of Aberystwyth facilitator of community media and arts. a very influential role in the development of community relations at home and around research manager of the “Public Engagement skills on the part of faculty members and University in August 2011. She is currently His PhD explored the motivations, impacts civic and public engagement of universities the world. In the true spirit of social media, with Research Online” project, which has students who encounter the many ethnic, combining setting a new strategic direction and cultural sustainability of stakeholders’ in Canada. He acted as a champion for come prepared to muck in with questions, successfully developed a framework for racial, language and socioeconomic cultures for the University with learning Welsh. involvement in community media education. engagement at the University of Victoria, and concerns, recommended resources and best evaluating the impacts of online engagement. and differences that characterize most British April was previously Vice-Principal at the He co-founded Firstborn Creatives, a was responsible for the establishment of the practices. and increasinglyother European cities. I am University of Edinburgh, where her main participatory production company, with Rob university’s renowned Office for Community Simon Whittemore leads Business and interested in hosting a discussion about how responsibilities involved strategic planning, Mitchell in 2000. Based Research. He has played a key Biography: Community Engagement (BCE) at JISC. universities can develop effective curricular resource allocation, research, and estates. national role in the development of policies An award-winning writer and corporate The BCE portfolio is designed to support and assessment tools to help faculty Her academic field is linguistics, and her Sarah Connolly, Polly Weston and Dee Smart for ‘knowledge mobilization’. In this session communicator, Julie Ovenell-Carter is part of institutions in their ‘third mission’- i.e. the members and students in this dimension of research interests include how and why were also heavily involved with the project. Martin will share examples and lessons Simon Fraser University’s External Relations management of strategic partnerships with their engagement work. I will bring my own languages change; language families; the www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/ from the Canadian university experience in team. After helping to coordinate SFU’s external organisations delivering economic experience and the expertise of my Italian- evolution of language; and the history of more-than-words civic engagement, and will explore how the enVision campaign – the largest community and social benefit - harnessing the innovative based organisation but will invite others to varieties of English and Scots. She has challenges of changing university culture consultation process ever undertaken by a use of ICT. Simon was previously Deputy share their experiences and strategies (and published 10 books and a wide range of have been framed and dealt with in a Canadian university – she recently served as Head of the Business and Community team questions) in the discussion. articles and book chapters. different national context. communications lead in the roll-out of the at HEFCE from 2003-07.
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