In July 2014, supported through the University鈥檚 Higher Education Innovation Fund,聽the Public Engagement with Research (PER) unit聽invited expressions of interest to develop new engagement activities. From the 27 brilliant public engagement ideas received, 5 projects successfully made it through the full application process and will begin in October.
The supported projects can be seen .
Projects will support the PER unit鈥檚 core aim to further embed a culture of public engagement with research across the University.
They all have Southampton research at their heart and feature mutually-beneficial collaborations with internal and/or external partners. Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research & Enterprise Professor Judith Petts said
鈥淪outhampton has a long track record of excellent public engagement, so these new awards are both a celebration of that tradition and an opportunity to enable projects to move towards new levels of activity. I am excited by the potential of these 5 projects to help us develop our institutional culture of public engagement and to become models of best practice.鈥�
贰尘补颈濒听J.M.James@soton.ac.uk for further information about the Public Engagement with Research unit or to join the University鈥檚 public engagement network.