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25 March 2022

Reminder – Join the next meeting of the Public Engagement with Research Network

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We are dedicating this meeting of the BU Public Engagement with Research (PER) Network to helping you apply for the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2022, an annual celebration of the social sciences.

In this session we will explain more about the festival and how to apply through our internal process – opening on Monday 28 March. We will also hear from academics who have previously held events and activities as part of the festival, who will share their experiences and advice.

Find out more about the Festival of Social Science, including who is eligible and how much funding and support you could receive.

We will also share other news on public engagement from BU.

The meeting will take place on Thursday 31 March 12-1pm, on Teams.

To join this meeting and find out about future ones, join our BU Public Engagement with Research Network. Check under ‘Meetings’ for upcoming sessions.

If you have any questions, please email the team.

24 March 2022

COST actions – European Cooperation in Science and Technology

Funding opportunities, international Ainars

COST is a funding organisation that aims to support researchers to grow their professional research networks and boost their careers. The United Kingdom is one of 39 COST Members, so UK researchers are eligible for funding.

COST Actions are typically made up of researchers from academia, SMEs, public institutions and other relevant organisations or interested parties. It is open to all science and technology fields, including new and emerging fields. COST Actions offer an inclusive, pan-European environment for individuals of all levels of seniority.

In opposition to many EU-funded projects, it is possible to participate in an ongoing project. There are the following options how you can participate in COST Actions:

As a Management Committee (MC) Member (the MC is responsible for the coordination, implementation and management for an Action)
As a working group (WG) member (the WG groups perform the tasks required by the Action to fulfil the objectives of the network project plan)
As a participant in Action activities

There are more than 200 COST Actions open and 70 more networks will be announced in May to replace those closing in 2022.

How to find out more?

A week ago, there was a webinar organised by the UK Research Office (UKRO) dedicated to an Introduction to COST. Policy Officer of COST Association Judith Litjens provided attendees with an overview of COST. On the UKRO event page you can find recording and presentation slides from the webinar. The event outlined the different ways to get involved in a COST action and covered UK participation in COST. Professor David Manlove (University of Glasgow) presented his involvement in three different COST actions.

Some useful tips

BU may not be in a position to lead large multi-national consortia, however BU academics may be invited to join a proposal led by another institution.

Before saying ‘yes’, it may be worth to gather some intelligence and consider if the leading institution and PI has adequate resources and experience in leading such large projects; there are in average 30 participating institution for an action with an average annual budget of almost EUR 140k to be managed. Knowing more about potential lead may, sometimes, save significant PI’s and RDS resources before realising that developed proposal has no chance to get funded.

Often, most rewarding approach may be joining already existing or newly established networks. To participate in activities, follow the offers of the specific action you are interested in.

On COST website you may find more information regarding specific COST networking tools like meetings, workshops and conferences, Short-term Scientific Missions and training schools. Training schools are intensive coaching opportunities focusing on young researchers in particular. According to COST expectations, 20% of funding must be spent for supporting Early Career Researchers.

If you plan to get involved in a COST Action, please get in touch with your RDS Funding Development Officer. Still got questions about COST scheme? Get in touch with me.

21 March 2022

Join the next meeting of the Public Engagement with Research Network

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We are dedicating this meeting of the BU Public Engagement with Research (PER) Network to helping you apply for the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2022, an annual celebration of the social sciences.

In this session we will explain more about the festival and how to apply through our internal process – opening on Monday 28 March. We will also hear from academics who have previously held events and activities as part of the festival, who will share their experiences and advice.

Find out more about the Festival of Social Science, including who is eligible and how much funding and support you could receive.

We will also share other news on public engagement from BU.

The meeting will take place on Thursday 31 March 12-1pm, on Teams.

To join this meeting and find out about future ones, join our BU Public Engagement with Research Network. Check under ‘Meetings’ for upcoming sessions.

If you have any questions, please email the team.

2 March 2022

Reminder – RKEDF Workshop Tuesday 12 April. Evaluation: Developing your approach

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Why is evaluation important in public engagement? And how do you do it effectively?

We are delighted to have teamed up with the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE), who will deliver this bespoke session for BU researchers.

This interactive course will encourage participants to think about why evaluation is important, look at ways to get started, explore different techniques they can use, and consider what findings can tell the participant and their organisation or funder. With an emphasis on how to conduct evaluation, participating in practical activities and discussion as together the workshop facilitators and attendees will demystify evaluation and find the fun in revealing and identifying participants’ effectiveness.

These sessions are aimed at people with experience of public engagement with research; however, the session will be open to all experience levels.

Learning objectives:

To develop an awareness of the value and importance of evaluating public engagement.
To gain familiarity with the process of evaluation and the usefulness of planning.
To consider the uses of evaluation including improving activities; sharing good practice and reporting.
To begin to explore the issues and challenges of evaluating public engagement.

By the end of this session, you will:

Have a greater understanding and awareness of the importance of evaluating public engagement
Understand the processes of evaluation and how to plan for it.

It is a condition of booking that the attendee agrees that their contact email will be shared with the NCCPE for the purposes of programme administration.

Workshop	Date	Time	Location
Evaluation: Developing your approach	Tuesday 12th April 2022	14:00-16:30	Online

To book a place on this workshop please complete the booking form.

For any queries, please contact Organisational Development .

25 February 2022

🎙️ANEX ANatomical EXamination – Live demo16th of March! 🎙️

Mara Catalina Aguilera Canon

The understanding of human anatomy is vital to the delivery of healthcare. For medical students, this necessary awareness of anatomy and 3D spatial orientation is traditionally learned through cadaveric dissection. This is expensive and has practical as well as ethical constraints to available teaching time. The ANEX team has generated digital models hosted inside a Web app available for the BU community and can be used as assets for interdisciplinary research between the fields of Arts, Science and Healthcare.

Join us on this 16th of March at lunchtime for this presentation of the ANEX : Anatomical Examination app. An app developed in Collaboration with UHD (University Hospitals Dorset) by and for the BU community that provides a personalized platform for both students and lecturers.

On this webinar you will:

See a LIVE demo of our ANEX webapp: A Medical education platform for teaching anatomy. (Desktop and Mobile versions available)
Get an early peek of our Neuravatar diagnostics tool.
Learn more about how this resource can be used in your research or your teaching environment

Weds 16th March

12:00-13:00PM

🎫🎟️MS TEAMS 🎟️🎫meeting invite here

Dr Xiaosong Yang (FMC)

Dr Mara Catalina Aguilera Canon (FMC)

8 February 2022

We can help promote your public engagement event or activity

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At BU we promote and celebrate the work done to engage public audiences with BU research.

The public engagement with research team in Research Development and Support (RDS) can help promote your event to relevant audiences through our regular newsletter and social media channels. It also helps us to stay informed on the public engagement work being carried out by BU.

Please note: we are keen to promote BU public engagement with research activity wherever possible, but completing this form does not guarantee that we will be able to promote your event. To be considered for inclusion, your event or activity must be;

Focused on BU research, either solely or as part of a wider programme.
- Events or activities that do not involve BU research, such as marketing or recruitment events, will not be accepted.
Intended for and open to non-academic audiences, either entirely or as a portion of the audience.
Submitted, at the latest, in the first two weeks of the month preceding the event.
- For example, an event taking place in June should be submitted via the form any time before 14 May. This is due to lead times on producing and sending the newsletter.

Event descriptions may be edited for consistency in style with other content. If you have any questions about this process, please contact us.

25 January 2022

Reminder: The Leverhulme are visiting the funding development briefing Wednesday at 12 noon

Funding opportunities apekalski

Reminder: The Funding Development Briefing will be on Wednesday at 12 noon. The Leverhulme are visiting the session.

They will cover:

Overview of all their schemes, process, explain acronyms, highlight resources available etc.
Q & A

For those unable to attend the session, slides will be shared on Brightspace here. But the session will not be recorded.

Invites for these sessions have been disseminated via your Heads of Department. If you do not have these in your diary and wish to attend please contact Alexandra Pekalski apekalski@bournemouth.ac.uk

21 January 2022

Join our BU Public Engagement Network meeting: Monday 7 February 2022

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At this meeting, we’ll look at engaging with policy and policy makers – a particular type of non-academic audience. We’ll be joined by BU Policy and Public Affairs Officer, Sarah Carter and Professor in Media Management, John Oliver.

Easing into policy

This short session will introduce colleagues to the variety of ways their research and expertise can create impact through policy. It will include how to connect with policy makers and keep abreast of political interest within their field. We’ll provide real life examples and help colleagues to consider their next steps.

The meeting will take place 12-1pm on Monday 7 February, on Teams.

To join this meeting and to find out about future ones, join our BU Public Engagement with Research Network. Check under ‘Meetings’ for upcoming sessions.

Reminder

We are re-running our RKEDF public engagement training sessions, ‘Introduction to Community Engagement‘ on Monday 14th March 2022 – 14:00 – 16:30 and ‘Evaluation: Developing your approach‘ on Tuesday 12th April 2022 – 14:00-16:30

Please contact publicengagement@bournemouth.ac.uk should you have any questions.

19 January 2022

Have you been involved in an event for the external community? Deadline soon!

HEIF, Knowledge Exchange, Public engagement Amanda Edwards

Please tell us about the social, cultural and community events that you’ve been involved with by Tuesday 25th January.

BU is currently compiling the data for the annual Higher Education – Business & Community (HE-BCI) survey. Data returned is used to calculate our Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF) grant and feeds into our Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF) submission, so it’s really important that we can provide an accurate picture.

We are asked to submit details of all social, cultural and community events designed for the external community – including both free and chargeable events – which took place between 1 August 2020 and 31 July 2021. Event types that should be returned include, but are not limited to:

public lectures
performance arts (dance, drama, music, etc)
exhibitions
museum education
events for schools and community groups
festival activity
media engagement.

Please note that we cannot return events such as open days, Student Union activity, widening participation activity, commercial conferences, talks for academic audiences etc.

All events that were part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2020 and the Cafe Scientifique series have been collated on your behalf centrally, so there is no need to add these.

If you have been involved with any other event which could be returned, please go to the HE-BCI Table 5 SharePoint site and input further details about the event. The deadline for entries is 25 January 2022.

Click here to add your events

The site contains further guidance about eligible activities and a set of FAQs. If you have any further questions, please contact Amanda Edwards

18 January 2022

British Science Festival 2022: Open Call for proposals

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Do you have an idea to engage public audiences with science and research?

The British Science Festival are now accepting event proposals for the 2022 Festival in Leicester, hosted by De Montfort University.

Proposals are welcome from individuals, researchers, industry professionals, artists, writers, organisations, charities, academic institutions, and more. Festival proposals should be aimed at non-specialist adults (16+) with a broad interest in science.

Festival organisers are looking for events that showcase cutting-edge science, celebrate the latest developments in science and technology and engage their audience in open discussion about relevant issues that affect culture and society. They aim to programme a range of formats from talks to drop-in activities and creative content that challenges perceptions of what science is and can be.

Highlights from the 2021 Festival can be found here

More information, including how to submit a proposal, can be found here

The deadline for proposals is 5pm on Monday 14 February 2022.

If you have any questions, please contact Anna Woolman anna.woolman@BRITISHSCIENCEASSOCIATION.ORG

Alternatively, please contact Adam Morris (BU Engagement Officer) if you would like advice on planning or submitting your proposal publicengagement@bournemouth.ac.uk

13 January 2022

RKEDF Workshop – Evaluation: Developing your approach

Knowledge Exchange, Public engagement ballen

Why is evaluation important in public engagement? And how do you do it effectively?

We are delighted to have teamed up with the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE), who will deliver this bespoke session for BU researchers.

This interactive course will encourage participants to think about why evaluation is important, look at ways to get started, explore different techniques they can use, and consider what findings can tell the participant and their organisation or funder. With an emphasis on how to conduct evaluation, participating in practical activities and discussion as together the workshop facilitators and attendees will demystify evaluation and find the fun in revealing and identifying participants’ effectiveness.

These sessions are aimed at people with experience of public engagement with research; however, the session will be open to all experience levels.

Learning objectives:

To develop an awareness of the value and importance of evaluating public engagement.
To gain familiarity with the process of evaluation and the usefulness of planning.
To consider the uses of evaluation including improving activities; sharing good practice and reporting.
To begin to explore the issues and challenges of evaluating public engagement.

By the end of this session, you will:

Have a greater understanding and awareness of the importance of evaluating public engagement
Understand the processes of evaluation and how to plan for it.

It is a condition of booking that the attendee agrees that their contact email will be shared with the NCCPE for the purposes of programme administration.

Workshop	Date	Time	Location
Evaluation: Developing your approach	Tuesday 12th April 2022	14:00-16:30	Online

To book a place on this workshop please complete the booking form.

For any queries, please contact Organisational Development .

13 January 2022

RKEDF Workshop: Introduction to Community Engagement

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This is a brand new session for 2021-22 – providing an introduction to what is involved when developing mutually beneficial research partnerships with communities. It will also help you decide whether it is the favoured approach for you and your community partners.

The session will be delivered by the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement and is aimed at those working in universities who want to know more about community engagement and are interested in the potential of applying a community-engaged research approach.

Learning objectives:

Consider your knowledge and understanding of community engagement and community engaged research
Explore the continuum of collaborative research with communities
Think about what helps to build strong community engagement and enhance your skills by experimenting with these ideas
Reflect on how community engagement relates to your own work and roles.

By the end of this session, you will:

Understand how community engagement works
Be aware of how community engagement relates to your own work
Have an understanding of what makes strong community engagement

Workshop	Date	Time	Location
Introduction to Community Engagement	Monday 14th March 2022	14:00 – 16:30	Online

To book a place on this workshop please complete the booking form.

For any queries, please contact Organisational Development.

10 January 2022

Have you been involved with an event for the external community?

HEIF, Knowledge Exchange, Public engagement Amanda Edwards

Then we want to hear from you! Deadline: 25 January 2022

BU is currently compiling the data for the annual Higher Education – Business & Community (HE-BCI) survey. Data returned is used to calculate our Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF) grant and feeds into our Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF) submission, so it’s really important that we can provide an accurate picture.

We are asked to submit details of all social, cultural and community events designed for the external community – including both free and chargeable events – which took place between 1 August 2020 and 31 July 2021. Event types that should be returned include, but are not limited to:

public lectures
performance arts (dance, drama, music, etc)
exhibitions
museum education
events for schools and community groups
festival activity
media engagement.

Please note that we cannot return events such as open days, Student Union activity, widening participation activity, commercial conferences, talks for academic audiences etc.

All events that were part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2020 and the Cafe Scientifique series have been collated on your behalf centrally, so there is no need to add these.

If you have been involved with any other event which could be returned, please go to the HE-BCI Table 5 SharePoint site and input further details about the event. The deadline for entries is 25 January 2022.

Click here to add your events

The site contains further guidance about eligible activities and a set of FAQs. If you have any further questions, please contact Amanda Edwards

10 January 2022

We can help promote your public engagement event or activity

Knowledge Exchange, Public engagement ballen

At BU we promote and celebrate the work done to engage public audiences with BU research.

The public engagement with research team in Research Development and Support (RDS) can help promote your event to relevant audiences through our regular newsletter and social media channels. It also helps us to stay informed on the public engagement work being carried out by BU.

Please note: we are keen to promote BU public engagement with research activity wherever possible, but completing this form does not guarantee that we will be able to promote your event. To be considered for inclusion, your event or activity must be;

Focused on BU research, either solely or as part of a wider programme.
- Events or activities that do not involve BU research, such as marketing or recruitment events, will not be accepted.
Intended for and open to non-academic audiences, either entirely or as a portion of the audience.
Submitted, at the latest, in the first two weeks of the month preceding the event.
- For example, an event taking place in June should be submitted via the form any time before 14 May. This is due to lead times on producing and sending the newsletter.

Event descriptions may be edited for consistency in style with other content. If you have any questions about this process, please contact us.

6 January 2022

Soapbox Science Brighton 2022: Call for speakers now open

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Call for speakers at Soapbox Science Brighton 2022 now open.

What is Soapbox Science?

Soapbox Science is a fun and engaging way of communicating your research and raising the profile of female, non-binary and gender queer scientists. The aim of Soapbox Science is to promote female and gender diverse scientists and the work they do, challenging stereotypes of who can be a scientist.

Events

Soapbox Science events transform public areas into an arena for public learning and scientific debate; they follow the format of London Hyde Park’s Speaker’s Corner, which is historically an arena for public debate.

Learn, heckle, question, probe, interact with and be inspired by some of our leading scientists. No middle person, no PowerPoint slides, no amphitheatre – just remarkable women and non-binary scientists sharing their latest discoveries, and answering the science questions you have been burning to ask.

Open Call

The call for speakers is open to female, non-binary and gender queer STEMM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine) researchers and entrepreneurs from PhD to Professor.

Funding for travel is provided. The organisers will provide all speakers with training in public speaking and science communication, as well as supporting you to think creatively about how to communicate your research in the most engaging way.

The event will be held on Brighton Seafront on Saturday 21 May 2022

Apply here

Deadline for applications: Monday 28 February 2022

If you have any questions, please contact soapboxscience@gmail.com

Alternatively, please contact Adam Morris (BU Engagement Officer) if you would like advice on planning or submitting your application: publicengagement@bournemouth.ac.uk

9 December 2021

Have you been involved with an event for the external community?

HEIF, Knowledge Exchange, Public engagement Amanda Edwards

Then we want to hear from you! Deadline: 25 January 2022

BU is currently compiling the data for the annual Higher Education – Business & Community (HE-BCI) survey. Data returned is used to calculate our Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF) grant and feeds into our Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF) submission, so it’s really important that we can provide an accurate picture.

We are asked to submit details of all social, cultural and community events designed for the external community – including both free and chargeable events – which took place between 1 August 2020 and 31 July 2021. Event types that should be returned include, but are not limited to:

public lectures
performance arts (dance, drama, music, etc)
exhibitions
museum education
events for schools and community groups
festival activity
media engagement.

Please note that we cannot return events such as open days, Student Union activity, widening participation activity, commercial conferences, talks for academic audiences etc.

All events that were part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2020 and the Cafe Scientifique series have been collated on your behalf centrally, so there is no need to add these.

If you have been involved with any other event which could be returned, please go to the HE-BCI Table 5 SharePoint site and input further details about the event. The deadline for entries is 25 January 2022.

Click here to add your events

The site contains further guidance about eligible activities and a set of FAQs. If you have any further questions, please contact Amanda Edwards

2 December 2021

NERC – Knowledge Exchange Fellowships

Funding opportunities, Knowledge Exchange, Public engagement Adam Morris

Apply for £150k funding to enhance the impact of research in the environmental sciences.

NERC knowledge exchange fellowships help you and your stakeholders to share knowledge.

NERC welcome researchers at all career stages. Your project must focus on a research theme from the NERC delivery plan.

The full economic cost of your project must be about £150,000. The fellowship will cover up to 100% of your salary. You would receive up to £40,000 for direct costs, including travel.

Find out more and apply

For advice on developing plans for impact, contact researchimpact@bournemouth.ac.uk or, for public engagement-focused plans, publicengagement@bournemouth.ac.uk

23 November 2021

Introducing the Early Career Researcher Network

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Our established network of Early Career Researchers extends across the faculties. It provides support to Early Career Researchers from the experienced academic leaders of the network, Dr. Sam Goodman, and Prof. Ann Hemingway, as well as from peers, and highlights the support available from the Research Development and Support department and other BU teams. It also, as the name suggests, provides a forum for networking and making connections that can be of great benefit to an academic’s research career.

We have monthly networking events. We plan to continue holding them online for the time being, with a view to trialling at least a couple of hybrid events later in this academic year. We have a mix of themed discussions, (on topics like career planning, dealing with imposter syndrome, managing your profile as a researcher), plus open surgeries with more general Q&A.

For a more animated introduction, here is a short video of Sam and Ann talking about the network.

If you are not already a member of the network but would like to be, or if you have any queries, please contact RKEDF@bournemouth.ac.uk. No restrictions apply, as long as you identify yourself as someone in the early stages of their research career.

To have a look at what sessions are on, and to book onto any of them, please see here.

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Reminder – Join the next meeting of the Public Engagement with Research Network

COST actions – European Cooperation in Science and Technology

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Some useful tips

Reminder – RKEDF Workshop Tuesday 12 April. Evaluation: Developing your approach

🎙️ANEX ANatomical EXamination – Live demo16th of March! 🎙️

We can help promote your public engagement event or activity

Join our BU Public Engagement Network meeting: Monday 7 February 2022

Have you been involved in an event for the external community? Deadline soon!

Click here to add your events

British Science Festival 2022: Open Call for proposals

RKEDF Workshop – Evaluation: Developing your approach

RKEDF Workshop: Introduction to Community Engagement

Have you been involved with an event for the external community?

Click here to add your events

We can help promote your public engagement event or activity

Soapbox Science Brighton 2022: Call for speakers now open

Have you been involved with an event for the external community?

Click here to add your events

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