scholarly journals The emergence of the publicly engaged research manager

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-124
Author(s):  
Katherine Dunleavy ◽  
Michael Noble ◽  
Heidi Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Professional Services ◽  
University Research ◽  
Project Teams ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Administrative Roles ◽  
The Public ◽  
Research Manager ◽  
The Uk

The increasing spread and rising profile of publicly engaged research in the UK has been accompanied by the emergence of a new, specialized professional services role embedded within research project teams. With this in mind, the Public Engagement Professionals in University Research Network convened a survey and workshop in 2017 to critically examine the skills and experiences of individuals in administrative roles in such projects. This paper argues that this is a highly skilled role that blurs boundaries between academic, administrator and engagement professional, but within higher education institutions it is often poorly understood and, therefore, undervalued and unsupported.

Enabling conditions for communities and universities to work together: a journey of university public engagement

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Chang ◽  
Gemma Moore
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
University Research ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Case Evaluation ◽  
University College London ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
Uk Higher Education

This chapter provides a context for the evolution of the concept of public engagement within the UK higher education sector focusing on a specific initiative: the Beacons for Public Engagement programme at University College London. Moreover, the chapter exposes the enabling conditions for communities and universities to work together; it recommends the five conditions to generate effective engagement, particularly through nuanced evaluation and support. In this case, evaluation and support can be seen as a pathway — bridging the gaps between theory and reality of engagement, between strategy and practice, and between the communities and academia — to ensure communities and universities to work together to create an impact on the university, research practice, communities, and ultimately, society.

scholarly journals Involving the Public in Data Linkage Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mhairi Aitken ◽  
Annette Braunack-Mayer ◽  
Felicity Flack ◽  
Kimberlyn M McGrail ◽  
Michael Burgess ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Engagement ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Consensus Statement ◽  
Data Linkage ◽  
Health Data ◽  
Advisory Council ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Plain Language ◽  
The Public ◽  
Data Intensive

Introduction“The Consensus Statement on Public Involvement and Engagement with Data-Intensive Health Research”, recent data breaches, and growing public awareness and controversy associated with secondary use of health data all highlight the need to understand what data sharing the public will support, under what circumstances, for what purposes and with whom. Objectives and ApproachThis symposium explores methods and findings from public engagement at all stages of data linkage research, beginning with short presentations (~6-8 minutes) on recent work: Mhairi Aitken: Consensus Statement - principles and an application using deliberative workshops to explore public expectations of public benefits from data-intensive health research Annette Braunack-Mayer/Felicity Flack: Surveys and citizens’ juries: Sharing government data with private industry Kim McGrail/Mike Burgess: Public deliberations on cross-sector data linkage, and combining public and private sources of data Alison Paprica: Plain language communication informed by Health Data Research Network Canada’s Public Advisory Council. Half the session will be spent interacting with the audience through live polling. The moderator will post a series of poll question such as “What is the most important thing for meaningful public engagement?” to prompt audience thinking on the topic. After the audience responses are revealed, panelists will share their own views about what they think is the best answer, and the main reason(s) behind their choice. The last 10-15 minutes of the session will be reserved for Q&A and dialogue with the audience. ResultsWe anticipate that this approach will surface emerging and tacit knowledge from presenters and the audience, and augment that through generative discussion. Conclusion / ImplicationsSession attendees will leave with a better understanding of the current state of knowledge and ways to talk about that understanding with other researchers, policy makers and the public.

Funding UK Higher Education

1990 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 262-266
Author(s):  
Maggie Inchley
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Uk Higher Education ◽  
Funding Gap ◽  
New System

The UK higher education system is going through a period of self-assessment: looking outwards to expand education provision; looking inwards to devise a new system of funding. This article discusses how and why the system will be expanded and examines how the funding gap will be filled by the public, industry and the students themselves.

Embracing The Grind: Why We Chose Higher Education Administration; Maybe You Should Too

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 346-348
Author(s):  
Tonya Smith-Jackson ◽  
Ann Bisantz ◽  
Christopher B. Mayhorn ◽  
Brian M. Kleiner ◽  
Kari Babski-Reeves ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Administration ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Education Administration ◽  
Academic Experience ◽  
Higher Education Administrators ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Administrative Roles ◽  
The Public ◽  
Education Administrators

Newspapers, broadcast agencies, and social media outlets frequently feature stories about higher education administrators who are terminated, forced to resign, or otherwise removed from their posts. While the events are based in reality, many across the nation, especially the public, faculty and students, might develop a very negative view of what it means to be a leader in higher education administration. Yet, higher education administration could be one of the most rewarding and growth-contributing careers for many. This panel consists of faculty from various universities who made the selfless choice to serve in challenging administrative roles. They will share their experiences; good, bad, and in-between. Discussions will include lessons learned and how to prepare for these positions, with applications to those with academic experience and those who may come from government or industry occupations that afford a degree skills and knowledge transfer to academia. Information will be provided about work-life balance as well.

scholarly journals Is there an I in Impact? Considering the two-way process of public engagement.

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-93
Author(s):  
Isabelle Heyerick
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Recent Experience ◽  
Personal Beliefs ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Society Research

This article is a critical reflection on public engagement and the concept of impact in UK research institutions, based on a recent experience. The UK impact agenda, driven by the Research Excellence Framework (REF), requires researchers to engage with the public in order to potentially have an impact on society.  This, I argue, constitutes the implicit directionality of impact as a one-way process. Recently, I provided a workshop for Flemish Sign Language (VGT) interpreters entitled ‘I interpret, therefore I am’ at the Faculty of Arts of the KU Leuven (Antwerp, Belgium). The aim of the workshop, in line with the impact agenda, was to increase participants’ awareness about the interpreting process and change their perception of how an interpreter’s personal beliefs potentially influence his/her linguistic choices. However, interacting with the participants also had an impact on my current research design and me as a researcher. This particular experience led me to reconsider the implicit idea of impact as a one-way process. In what follows I argue that, impact can and - in my opinion - should be a two-way process, encouraging interaction with the public in order to have a valuable impact on society, research and the researcher.

scholarly journals The Power of Place

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-53
Author(s):  
Catharina Landstrom ◽  
Stewart Kemp
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Risk ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Risk Governance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Engagement With Science ◽  
Lay Members ◽  
Local Engagement ◽  
The Uk

Investigating the role of geographical location in public engagement with science we examine the West Cumbria Managing Radioactive Waste Safely (MRWS) Partnership’s undertaking of one of the most extensive local public engagements with environmental risk science in the UK. The case study highlights the transformative impacts of this three-year long local engagement on both science and the public. Differently from other invited public engagements, organised as experiments controlled by scientists in spaces set aside from the everyday, the Partnership’s lay members led a process unfolding in the place that was potentially at risk. The Partnership had the authority to demand that scientists addressed issues of local interest. We frame the analysis with the notions ‘re-situating technoscience' and ‘re-assembling the public' to illuminate how scientific knowledge claims were modified and a new local public emerged, at the intersection of public engagement with science and public participation in environmental risk governance.

Back on to the Agenda

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Herbert
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The Public ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Government ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Financing Higher Education ◽  
Research Facilities

This chapter discusses the reintegration of the need for Humanities Research Council back onto the public agenda and into the policy stream of the UK government. The issue of the Research Council for the humanities came into public and governmental attention when it was fastened to the dilemmas of financing higher education, which itself was tied to the uncertainty of the UK economy. In May 1996, the Secretary of State for Education and Employment together with Secretaries of State for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland appointed Chairman Ron Dearing to create a body that would inquire into the higher education system of the UK. In 1997, the committee produced a report, Higher Education in a Learning Society, or the Dearing Report. The report charted a course for higher education in the UK for the next twenty years. This so-called intellectual capital called for a higher quality of teaching and the need for researchers and research facilities. It offered 93 specific recommendations, among which was a recommendation advocating the immediate establishment of a new Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). In 1998, the government recognized the need for the establishment of a research council for humanities and announced the provision of £8M in 1998–1999 for arts and humanities research, albeit after lengthy considerations.

29. Parliament and Public Engagement

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Leston-Bandeira ◽  
Aileen Walker
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Participatory Democracy ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
The Public ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Uk

This chapter examines why the UK Parliament has invested heavily in public engagement over the last decade. Since the 1960s, the UK Parliament has been facilitating public engagement through a variety of ways. However, it is also an institution which is far more vulnerable and criticized by both the public and media. The chapter first defines public engagement before discussing the importance of parliamentary public engagement today. Four key inter-related factors that explain the rise in the importance of public engagement for parliaments are highlighted: the steady trend of increasing scepticism towards politics; the improved access to education and information; the increased opportunities created by digital media; and the growing appeal of participatory democracy. The chapter goes on to analyse how public engagement developed in Parliament and asks whether this has led to changes in public attitudes towards the institution.

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