Practical public engagement Workshop (14 December)

Wednesday 8 December 2021

The Practical Public Engagement workshop will start with a variety of simple exercises designed to help you communicate your research directly to non-specialist audiences. From there we will look at the variety of audiences and delivery possibilities for engagement locally, nationally and globally.

We will briefly consider public engagement as a pathway to impact and how to design evaluation as proof of impact. Those who wish to can arrange to meet with Francesca at a later date to develop individual public engagement plans.

By the end of this workshop you should be able to:

Confidently deliver simple, established public engagement exercises such as Meet the Expert.
Describe your research in conversational terms to non-specialists in 4 sentences or less.
Start developing a research and/or project specific plan for public engagement delivery.
Discover opportunities for public engagement delivery locally, nationally and globally.

What previous participants have said about the in person version of this course:

“Helps to ask questions to the person on public engagement here.”
“Inspiring speaker, who throughout the workshop put what she taught us re: public speaking into practice with constant interaction, anecdotes, etc.”
“Good conversation on a variety of topics with researchers in a variety of fields. Gained a clearer understanding of PE [public engagement].”
“I liked how practical the event was. The activity where we had to present our research on the spot was useful.”