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Public engagement blog 2011
Would you own up to being a public intellectual?
Should academics be restricted, or restrict themselves, to speaking in public about their specialist subject only? Or do we have a wider role in public debate? Some thoughts on the Starkey controversy and the importance of knowing where someone's coming from.
29 August 2011
Categories: role models
The ultimate public engagement opportunity?
Would you have the guts to dance your PhD and publicise the video on the web?
02 September 2011
Categories: Learning, Research, development
North West People in Research Forum website launch
The North West People in Research Forum, a new organisation that is devoted to supporting patient and public involvement (PPI) and public engagement (PE) in health research in the North West, has just launched its new website. http://www.northwestpeopleinresearchforum.org/
01 September 2011
Categories:
Nasima Riazat – Doctoral networking forum.
22 August 2011
Categories: Learning, Research, development, research staff, training, support, mentors, role models, practical tips, Community
Images of Research Photography Competition 2011
A public engagement opportunity for the research community at The University of Manchester.
19 August 2011
Categories: development, research staff, training
Manchester Science Festival: Spacetacular – participants needed!
We’re looking for participants for this event at Manchester Science Festival that blends comedy, science and stories about space. The event will be held on the evening of Friday 28 October at MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry) for an adult audience.
19 August 2011
Categories: career, development, training, support
IOPs Schools Outreach Support Network, 8 Sept, London and survey of outreach activity
Creating a network of colleagues who have (or wish to have) strong outreach links with their local schools and are interested in sharing their experiences with colleagues working in a similar role at other institutions
16 August 2011
Categories: Research, career, development, training, support
Science in the media
Do journalists lack the skills, knowledge and temerity to question scientists? Or do they cut them off in full flow? Is science presented in the media as a researcher's monologue or a quick-fire Q&A? Why I doubt we'll find a happy medium.
04 August 2011
Categories: Research
Public engagement in the REF - ‘business as usual’ or ‘extra’ impact?
The REF panels have adopted different attitudes to public engagement as an indicator of research impact. Should the new evaluation process reward us for creating public interest in our research?
14 August 2011
Categories: Research, research staff
Bioscience Researchers - Science Communication Awards 2011 (nominations close 19 August)
Nominations are now open to bioscience researchers from UK universities and institutes for our Science Communication Award (Society of Biology)
02 August 2011
Categories: Research, career, development
