🎉 PCER Unwrapped 2024 🎉
The year in review, told through your favourite metrics, milestones, and misadventures:
🎙 Top Genres:
- Science Together bangers 🎶8 new community partners joining 21 legacy partners
- Oxford Sparks hits 🌟 over 1.8 million people reached
- Behind-the-scenes remixes 🎛 (hello, case studies, funding guidance, reading REF tea leaves and culture change scheming!)
🔍 Most-Played Engagement Strategies:
- “Can we make this more collaborative?” on repeat.
- The smash hit: “Let’s evaluate it.”
- An unexpected bop: “Actually, this was in scope.”
- The comforting favourites: "Can you write that on a post-it?"
📈 PCER Stats of the Year:
- 12 case studies produced – that's more storytelling than your favourite true crime podcast.
- 58 hours of training delivered – enough to binge-watch two seasons of your favourite show.
- 12,674 post-its used
- Countless moments of brilliance from the team.
🎯 You Were in the Top 1% of... Facilitators of Lightbulb Moments: For connecting researchers and communities in ways that made everyone go, "Oh, now that’s exciting!"
🔄 Biggest Transition:
We bid a fond farewell to Nick Hawes, our incredible academic PCER champion, who left some very big (and very inspiring) shoes to fill. 🙌
🚀 Most Anticipated Launch:
The MPLS PCER Fellows scheme took flight this year! 🚀5 projects funded.
🌟 Top Themes of the Year:
- Collaboration 💡
- Innovation 🚀
- Celebrating what makes PCER awesome 💛
📦 Most Popular Side Hustle:
Our equipment loan service worked hard this year, supporting 72 customers with a selection of our 22 items that helped bring science to life in all kinds of places – including (yes, really) Glastonbury Festival! 🎪✨
- 🏆 Top Performer: Science-Branded Gazebo #3 – the MVP of the year, clocking up 10 trips to events near and far.
- ⏳ Longest Loan: One borrower has held onto a digital recorder for a record-breaking 500 days. Time to admit defeat, or should we file a missing persons report? 👀 (just kidding, it's being used to support our work and we know exactly where it is).
🎉 Looking Ahead to 2025:
Projects focused on culture change, more community collaborations and enhancing what we already do. Here’s to making next year unforgettable!
Thanks to everyone who made 2024 a year to remember. You’re the reason PCER keeps hitting the high notes. See you in 2025! 🎶
(This playful review was created with the assistance of generative AI)