PER Planning Steps
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.
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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