Public engagement and impact of research event

23 March 2010, The Natural History Museum

What is exactly Public Engagement? Why should researcher engage with public understanding? What kind of impact does a research project have? What do we call impact of research?

This event provided an opportunity to answer those questions and increased participants knowledge about Public Engagement.

PowerPoint slides of the speakers' presentations are available below. Click to view, right click (or Control Click for Macs) to save.

• Steve Cross: What is Public Engagement?
• Mark Miodownik: Engineering culture
• Graeme Rosenberg: Impact and the Research Excellence Framework
• Michael Metelits: Does impact change the rules?

• Public engagement and impact of research

  Location: The Natural History Museum, London

  23 March 2010