Thanks to financial support from the NCCPE's Public Engagement Ambassador (PEA) programme and the Santander Universities scheme, I was able to attend the 13th Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) conference, held earlier this year in Brazil.
The NCCPE has published my post about the conference here on their website.
In this post Andy Squires (Director of Denbigh Teaching School) and Helen Brown (Assistant Headteacher - Denbigh Teaching School) talk about partnering with the Open University on their SUPI Project: 'Engaging Opportunitiesā.
Partnership working
It was with great enthusiasm that we partnered with the Open University to submit our Engaging Opportunities SUPI project bid, some 21 months ago, and we have accomplished so much in this time.
On Friday 4th April 2014 Iāll be involved in hosting the second conference in our Evolving Science Communication series. You can find details of the first, held five years ago, in this report.
This conference celebrates 10 years of science communication programmes based at the Science Communication Unit (SCU), University of the West of England, Bristol. Weāve been delighted to work with our graduates to design a conference programme that we hope appeals to them, as well as to others currently working in and/or researching the āfieldā.
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Leadership; Mission; Communication
Championās blog; star date 2014.03.10 (in effect, an update on the first post on this blog, 'An open research university').
Nearly two years of the mission completed; 14 months of funding left. "Where do we boldly go from here?"
I was interviewed late last year by Lucian Hudson, the OU's Director of Communications, to explore this question. We also discussed progress with the core mission of the OU's Public Engagement with Research Catalyst.
You can see the results of our discussion in the video below. If you'd prefer to read the text of the interview, select transcript.
The National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE) is running an Engaged Futures consultation.Ā Alongside, and partly in coordination with this consultation, the NCCPE have launched a blog (NCCPE's blog). Ā
The NCCPE teamĀ invited various stakeholders to contribute a post to the new blog as part of the Engaged Futures consultation.Ā Authors were asked to imagine a future for some aspect of engaged research.
My contribution was based on an imagined future forĀ postgraduate research and it titledĀ 'An engaging thesis'.Ā Ā The NCCPE team are keen to start a discussionĀ around these articles, which willĀ grow in number in the coming weeks,Ā soĀ feel free to comment, circulate, etc.