DPhil students win awards for their public engagement with research activities

Get Ahead with Your Public Engagement Training – Save the Dates!

Online Training: Using ChatGPT for Communications, 16 October

Join the Methods for Change live workshop this October, where experts will help you learn to use ChatGPT to communicate your impact evaluation findings to a range of interested parties.

Science Filmmaking Workshop, 18-20 November

Blue Films are hosting this three day practical training course near Bristol to show how to make great films about research.

Online training: Science Communication through Poetry

Explore the art of science communication, not through charts and graphs, but through the captivating medium of poetry. This online course is designed to help you delve into the world of scientific poetry, unravelling its potential and discovering its immense power in illuminating complex scientific concepts.

UKRI Policy Engagement Internships, deadline 2 October

UKRI policy internships allow UKRI-funded doctoral students to undertake a three-month placement a policy organisation.

Sense about Science: Stand Up for Science Workshop, Online, 12 July

Sense about Science are running an online Standing up for Science workshop for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) on Friday 12 July, as part of their Voice of Young Science network. Deadline for applications 1 July.

Watch: Integrating impact in research funding proposals

Fast Track Impact have released a recording of their training session, delivered by Prof Mark Reed on how to increase your bidding success rate and integrate impact into a competitive research funding proposal.

Webinar: Communicating animal research via websites, 4 July

Understanding Animal Research are hosting this free webinar discuss how to communicate animal research and engage non-specialist audiences via institutional websites.

Engineering x Policy Events: Practical Workshop & Seminar on moving from Science to Policy

The Department of Engineering Science in collaboration with the Oxford Policy Engagement Network are hosting a series of events aimed at closing the gap between the scientific community, by better equipping researchers with the awareness, knowledge and tools to engage in research-backed policymaking. The events take place on 26 June and 3 July.

IoP Outreach and Communicators Conference, 14 Nov, London

The Institute of Physics is hosting this free one day conference at their premises in London. You can also submit ideas for talks and posters, deadline 27 Sept.

Sense about Science: Stand Up for Science Workshop, deadline 13 May

Sense about Science are running a Standing up for Science workshop for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) on Friday 1st March at the University of Nottingham, as part of our Voice of Young Science network.

Public Engagement with Research (PER) for REF2029 Impact Case Studies: A Brief Guide

We've produced a short guide to help you think about and plan for PER as an impact case study in REF2029, including what you can do now (spoiler: evaluate).

Royal Society Policy Associate Scheme, deadline 11 April

This scheme provides an opportunity for Royal Society funded University Research Fellows and Dorothy Hodgkin Fellows to undertake a secondment in a science policy environment.

Online: Make Surveys Sexy Again: Using Surveys to Evaluate Impact, 29 May

This free event from the Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN) will familiarise you with effective survey design for evaluating impact, whilst minimising respondent burden.

Hybrid: Science Under Pressure: Restoring Public Confidence, 29 May

Sense About Science are hosting this hybrid event looking at how the relationship between science and the public might be improved.

Online session: Getting Started in Policy Engagement, 10 April

This session, designed for early career researchers, DPhil students and professionals services staff, aims to help those new to policy engagement to increase their understanding of how to engage with policy makers.

Take part in the Three Minute Thesis Competition (3MT)

DPhil students are invited to join the training session on 26th April, and the Oxford final on 24th May.

Sense about Science: Stand Up for Science Workshop, deadline extended 28 February

Sense about Science are running a Standing up for Science workshop for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) on Friday 1st March at the Institute of Physics (London), as part of our Voice of Young Science network.

Science Filmmaking Workshop, 22-24 April