Guest post by Dr Magdalena Skrybant, Patient and Public Involvement Lead, CLAHRC West Midlands Traditionally, it has been challenging to involve and engage pregnant women in research. Most pregnant women have many competing demands on their time and there are logistical and practical issues to be considered when engaging/involving women in research (I feel like … Continue reading “Big ‘Push’ for new Yoga for Bump Sessions!”
Influencing Large-Scale Housing Developments in the UK: Involving Children and Young People
Guest post by Dr Sophie Hadfield-Hill and Professor Peter Kraftl On 28th February 2018, Peter Kraftl, Sophie Hadfield-Hill and Alex Laxton organised a workshop for Local Authorities who are delivering new ‘Garden Towns and Villages’ around England. Currently, through this scheme, the UK Government is committed to building 14 new Garden Villages and 9 Towns, although … Continue reading “Influencing Large-Scale Housing Developments in the UK: Involving Children and Young People”
STFC launches Interact 2017 Evaluation Report in partnership with UoB
University of Birmingham, together with STFC, Institute of Physics and SEPnet are proud to launch the evaluation report from Interact 2017. Interact 2017 was a symposium whose aim was to cultivate a community of engagement practitioners within the physical sciences who develop high quality STEM engagement and encourage a culture of strategic and reflective practice. The symposium was a success with over … Continue reading “STFC launches Interact 2017 Evaluation Report in partnership with UoB”
REF 2021 Public Engagement Workshop
On 6th February 2018, the HEFCE REF Team convened a meeting to discuss issues associated with the assessment of how impact derived from Public Engagement with Research (PER). Attendees included a mix of public engagement staff (both academic and professional services), sub-panel chairs, advisers and secretaries, and institutional REF people (again, both academic and professional … Continue reading “REF 2021 Public Engagement Workshop”
REF Panel Adviser. Again.
On 12th December 2017, in the middle of that period of heavy snow and ice which brought the West Midlands to a halt, I found myself sitting in front of my laptop being interviewed by Skype for the position of REF Panel Adviser. A couple of weeks later, I was delighted to hear I had … Continue reading “REF Panel Adviser. Again.”
PERspectives: ENCOMPASS – Notes from the project kick-off meeting
Piece by Derren Cresswell, ENCOMPASS Research Fellow As we waited for the primary school children to finish up their session in the education room, it was clear that the network that is being created by the ENCOMPASS project was well under way. People introduced themselves as they filled out name tags and chatted about bits of public … Continue reading “PERspectives: ENCOMPASS – Notes from the project kick-off meeting”
PERspectives: Encounters in Art and Science at Think Corner, Helsinki
Piece written by: Melissa Grant, Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences, School of Dentistry, Institute of Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham I recently had the pleasure of visiting Think Corner (or Tiede Kulma in Finnish*) in Helsinki for the launch of the Encounters Across Art and Science events courtesy of the Finnish Bioart Society. The idea for the … Continue reading “PERspectives: Encounters in Art and Science at Think Corner, Helsinki”
PER case studies: Fossil Forensics – UnEarthed 2017
Written by Jonathan Hall Earth Science PhD students Jonathan Hall and Jack Richardson, and MSc Applied and Petroleum Micropalaeontology graduate Rebecca Walley travelled to Edinburgh in mid-November (17-20th) to showcase Fossil Forensics at the Natural Environmental Research Councils’s (NERC) annual science public engagement event, this year titled UnEarthed. Fossil Forensic team members: Rebecca Walley, Jonathan Hall and Jack Richardson Created by … Continue reading “PER case studies: Fossil Forensics – UnEarthed 2017”
PERspectives: Notes from the Genome Editing Public Engagement Synergy (GEPES)
By now many of you will have heard the term ‘CRISPR’ in the news. CRISPR-Cas9, often shorten to ‘CRISPR’ (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is a revolutionary genome editing technique that allows permanent modification of genes within organisms. To date much of the conversation around the use of this technology has been around its potential for treating … Continue reading “PERspectives: Notes from the Genome Editing Public Engagement Synergy (GEPES)”
New report on Russian-speaking Foreign Fighters
New report on Russian-speaking Foreign Fighters by Cerwyn Moore and Mark Youngman Existing data on Russian-speaking groups and individuals linked to the Islamic State is often inaccurate, according to CREST Researcher Cerwyn Moore and ESRC-funded PhD Student Mark Youngman. They have released a substantive report on Russian-speaking foreign fighters and Islamic State’s influence in the … Continue reading “New report on Russian-speaking Foreign Fighters”