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The 2019 Concordat for Research Staff
2019 Concordat to support the career development of researchers
UKRI launches its new vision for Public Engagement
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has launched its vision for public engagement, setting out their key areas of interest and focus to enable them to "promote world-leading research and innovation that is built on the knowledge and values of society and open to people from all backgrounds."
Planning for Impact: for public engagement and beyond
This new guidance document for UKRI grant applications aims to help applicants write high quality Pathways to Impact as part of their grant proposals. It will also be of use for reviewers to understand what constitutes high quality Pathways to Impact, and for anyone supporting researchers.
Talking Science: Free YouTube series
This is an excellent introduction to science communication specially geared towards practising scientists from Greg Foot.
Vice Chancellor's Public Engagement with Research Award winners 2019 announced
In a glitzy awards ceremony in a packed lecture theatre in Keble College, the winners of the VC PER Awards were announced - featuring two awards for MPLS researchers - and three more highly commended awards.
The Wellcome Global Monitor
The Wellcome Global Monitor is the world’s largest study into how people around the world think and feel about science and major health challenges. It surveys over 140,000 people from more than 140 countries.
Hong Kong Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
10 bright young researchers just back from a week of inspirational East meets West activity
Listen: Equity, Exclusion and Everyday Science Learning - book review
The New Books Network podcast reviews and discusses a new book by Dr Emily Dawson on her work looking at the experiences of minoritised groups with everyday science learning.
Watch: Research Engagement; stories from researchers
This webinar was aimed at supporting early career researchers in 'getting ahead' in their research career. Hear about ‘what has worked (or is working) for me’ as case studies or tips from researchers who are undertaking wider engagement around their research, including business engagement, public engagement and policy engagement.
Update on the new Concordat for Research Staff
Julia Buckingham provides an update on the writing of the new Concordat
Watch: Bacterial World - Exhibiting Research case study
This new video case study looks at how researchers from across the university worked with the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on their exhibition 'Bacterial World'.
Watch: Bacterial World - Exhibiting Research case study
This new video case study looks at how researchers from across the university worked with the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on their exhibition 'Bacterial World'.
Are Ph.Ds just cheap labour for Universities?
Discussion about the importance of career development and training for D.Phils and Research Staff.
New 'state of science index' - "what the world thinks about science" plus science communication guide
In its second year, the 3M State of Science Index explores global attitudes towards science. I've picked out some interesting tid bits and you can take a look at their storytelling for scientists guide to help make your communications more relatable.
Public Engagement with Research Seed Fund 2018/19 - project list now available
The list of project summaries for this year's PER Seed Fund projects are now available - 12 projects were funded in total, three from MPLS researchers. Take a look, for inspiration and ideas.
Evaluation guidance: planning template and tools (requires SSO)
The Public Engagement with Research team in Research services have shared an evaluation planning template and a list of evaluation tools you can use. These were first used as part of the PER Forum intro to evaluation.
Academic English courses
Academic English courses from the University Language Centre
Dr Sam Henry awarded MPLS Impact Award for Public Engagement with Research
Dr Sam Henry (Dept of Physics) has won the MPLS Impact Award in the Public Engagement with Research Category. You can find out more about some of his public engagement work in this video.
Public Engagement and Outreach Training from the Royal Society
The Royal Society are offering two sessions for researchers: 'an introduction to public engagement' (12 March, 10am to 3pm), and 'Engaging with schools' (21 March, 10am to 5pm) in London.