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Work through the following steps in order, and refer to the additional guidance where needed: 

Step 1: Identify social context and relevant stakeholders for your research 

Who benefits? What societal challenge does your research address? What is the historical backdrop? Are there social or ethical implications?

Step 2: Set PER Objectives

For example:

  • Enlightenment and Empathy
  • Social Innovation
  • Social Action

Step 3: Create a costed forward-looking plan

  • What are the most relevant activities you can deliver within the lifetime of the grant?  
  • What resources are needed (expertise, partnerships)? 

Step 4: Evaluation and Impact Monitoring 

  • What difference will engagement make to you, your research and the publics you engage?
  • What metrics will you use to assess the success of your PER activities? 
  • Consider allocating part of your budget for evaluation. 

Click here to access the University's Evaluation Resources

From this, you can generate a statement outlining your approach to public engagement and to justify the funds you are requesting to realise this plan. This could be a sentence or short paragraph, e.g., following the template: 

"This research has the potential to lead to [impact/societal implications]. We will [your objective] with [your stakeholders]. To achieve this, we request [£xx] to do/create [activity/outputs]." 

 

 

Click here to read the full, detailed guidance and how it applies to a fictional example