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2018 Warden's Annual Public Engagement Awards Programme Warden’s Annual Public Engagement Awards 2018 Celebrating excellence in public engagement at Goldsmiths 3 May 2018 Table of Contents 2 Welcome 3 Running Order 4 Established Researcher category 4 Winners 8 Commendations 10 Nominated 12 Early Career Researcher category 12 Winner 14 Commendation 15 Nominated 20 Postgraduate Researcher category 20 Winner 22 Commendation 24 Nominated Table of Contents — 1 Welcome Running order Welcome to the Warden’s Annual Public Engagement Awards ceremony at Warden’s Annual Public Engagement Awards Ceremony Goldsmiths, University of London. These awards recognise and celebrate the Richard Hoggart Building, Room 137 excellent work researchers at all career stages do with members of the public, whether they’re sharing ground-breaking findings with new audiences or 5pm Welcome by Pat Loughrey, Warden of Goldsmiths collaborating with the public throughout their research. 5.05pm Introduction by Dr John Price, Academic Lead for Public Engagement An exceptional range of innovative activities and projects were nominated by Goldsmiths staff, showcasing different approaches to engaging the public with 5.15pm The presentation of the awards and commendations in the category of research and practice. Our researchers worked with organisations like the BFI, the Established Researcher Labour Party, the Zoological Museum Hamburg and Parliament to engage diverse audiences through film, performance, art and citizen science. Two special awards for public engagement with an emphasis on community engagement and research impact will be also be presented. There was a real sense that researchers, partners and the public benefited from this work, demonstrating how research in the arts, humanities, social 5.35pm The presentation of the award and commendation in the category of sciences and computing can create positive change in the world. Early Career Researcher I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all of the nominees, 5.45pm The presentation of the award and commendation in the category of whose work with the public is a real asset to Goldsmiths and an example Postgraduate Researcher to our community, and beyond. 5.55pm Closing remarks by Dr John Price Pat Loughrey Warden of Goldsmiths 6pm Drinks reception 2 — Welcome Running Order — 3 Established Researcher category Winner Dr Jennifer Gabrys for kit that included bespoke which were circulated Deptford Data Stories Dustbox PM2.5 sensors, to local and national (Sociology). and a community platform government and covered for mapping monitoring in the London press. Citizen scientists helped locations and viewing real- identify pollution levels time and historic data. Findings from Deptford in South East London Data Stories have that are six times above Residents were also contributed to air quality World Health Organisation provided with a logbook initiatives and evidence (WHO) guidelines. of instructions, which at local and national suggested several options levels through evidence From late October 2016 for recording observations provided to the UK to early September 2017, of environmental national government joint the Citizen Sense research conditions and health inquiry for improving air Special prize for public project led by Dr Jennifer effects. quality, and through a engagement with the Gabrys collaborated parliamentary request community with residents, workers During peak monitoring for debate raised by the and community groups activity, there were 21 Lewisham Deptford MP Dr John Price for The Battle of Lewisham, as a range of activities to in South East London to active Dustboxes, with Vicky Foxcroft. Remembering the Battle it became known, marked initiate inclusive public develop a citizen-led air- consistent monitoring of Lewisham: 40 years on the first time a national dialogues to explore its quality monitoring project. taking place at up to 18 Community groups, (History). NF demonstration was contemporary relevance sites over a period of including Deptford prevented from marching, and define how it should As residents were seven months. Folk and Deptford On 13 August 1977, the far- and also saw the first be remembered. particularly concerned Neighbourhood Action, right National Front (NF) deployment of riot shields about the inadequate Through several continue to use findings to attempted to march from by police on the UK The project culminated environmental regulation participatory data develop local projects. New Cross to Lewisham mainland. in the unveiling of a and monitoring in relation workshops and informal town centre, leading permanent monument to to traffic, construction interviews, the data and to violent clashes with To mark the 40th the Battle of Lewisham and development, Citizen findings were discussed, counter demonstrators anniversary of the events, attended by over 300 Sense worked with them developed and published and the police. Goldsmiths historian Dr people. to develop a monitoring as Deptford Data Stories, John Price embarked on 4 — Established Research Category, Winner Established Research Category, Winner — 5 Partnerships with of publics with a largely This new evidence has Special prize for Lewisham Council and forgotten aspect of disrupted the established impact through public a host of community local history, shaping narrative, while confirming engagement organisations helped perceptions of the many of the more the project engage borough and reaffirming contested claims about Professor Sue Clayton herself and a film crew However, her biggest thousands, while millions the event’s centrality the historical importance for Challenging the UK in Calais to explore and achievement is with the more were reached by to the history of race of the Battle. It will not Government on Child capture the human rights legal team who sought UK one of Goldsmiths most relations and protest only lead to new research, Refugees (Media and violations unfolding in acceptance for 37 of the successful press and in the UK. but has the potential to Communications) the camp. Not only that, most vulnerable young social media campaigns. inform how black British she persuaded 10 human people under the Dubs The project uncovered history is taught and When Sue visited the rights lawyers to visit and Amendment. Sue’s legal Activities including a documents and footage understood in schools, Calais Jungle refugee prove the legal case, as team brought a three-day public consultation, live of the Battle long thought colleges, universities camp in October 2016, well as 14 trained social challenge to the Home music, poetry, exhibitions lost, as well as the and beyond. she was horrified to find workers. Office in March this year of contemporary art and testimonies of many who up to 2000 refugee in the Royal Courts of photography, screenings, wanted to share their children alone and in a Her film, ‘Calais Children: Justice (High Court). The panel discussions, art memories. dangerous conditions, A Case to Answer’, has judgment is expected in workshops, and history abandoned by both the been screened more July 2018. walks engaged a range British and the French than a hundred times governments. at schools, colleges, Sue has also worked with churches, synagogues, Lord Dubs in Parliament to Sue suspected that many pubs, conferences and secure the fair application had rights under UK law, festivals, including back of the Dubs Amendment but with the camp due to at the Calais Jungle be cleared within weeks itself. The film has been Finally, Sue worked as and without legal support, screened for judges, a consultant for ITV their situation was barristers and other legal and Channel 4 News desperate. and NGO experts, and will throughout, with 11 items be screened in Parliament broadcast as well as a While others campaigned in June 2018. number of stories in from the safety of home, the national press. Sue crowdfunded to keep Established Research Category, Winners — 7 Commendations Tony Dowmunt and team from the London Prof Frederic F. Leymarie Community Video and Prof William Archive (Media and Latham for Interactive & Communications). Immersive Biomolecular Visualisation for All During the 1970s and from the disintegration of the legacy of community (Computing). 80s, new portable video half-inch reel-to reel-tape, video making. technology gave a voice and also due to the age The way biomolecules, to groups ignored or of the people originally The overwhelmingly such as DNA, RNA and under-represented in involved. positive feedback not proteins, ‘fold’ and ‘dock’ help users and players Society Summer Festival the mainstream media, only about the films like a 3D jigsaw is vital to better understand of Science, and the including tenants With an overriding themselves, but the most biological processes the processes behind Imperial Festival. in housing estates, commitment to social informal discussions and the effectiveness molecular folding and community action groups, empowerment and and networking that has of medical treatments. docking. The project has led to women, black and combating exclusion, come out of the screening Understanding this further collaborations minority ethnic groups, LCVA has revived this events, has sparked process is fundamental to The visual applications with researchers at other youth, gay and lesbian history so that it can be an awareness of an advances in biology and and games (combining universities who have people, and the disabled. used as a resource for overlooked yet significant the development of new 2D, 3D and immersive VR asked the Goldsmiths
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