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Curious about Public Engagement? This session provides a good foundation for beginners to develop public engagement skills or for those with a bit of experience.

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Explain what public engagement is and why we do it

• Identify audiences they would like to engage

• Know how to tailor messages to different audiences

• Describe different formats public engagement can take

About your trainer

Sarah Cosgriff (she/they) is a multi-award winning science communicator with a background in equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI). They have worked in a number of settings, such as education, youth sector, and public engagement. Sarah is an experienced speaker, trainer and consultant and their clients have included businesses, charities, universities, festivals, schools and museums.

Please note that there will be breakout rooms during the training session for exercises and discussions. The first breakroom room will involve working in pairs, in which you will need a pen and paper for this exercise.

This is the final session in the Evaluation Masterclass series. You do not have to attend all of the sessions.

This final session will explore the types of data you can yield from evaluation methods, and how you can best analyse this. We will explore key data analysis tools and how to draw insights from this data in order to answer questions about the success of your public engagement activity.

For those of us working and studying in universities - whatever our roles! We need to be able to stand up and talk about our work, to each other and also to non-experts. Good speakers talk with clarity and charisma. They’re engaging and they’re accessible, even when presenting complicated ideas.

For many of us this doesn’t come easy, but the good news is that presentation skills can be learned. Nerves can be tamed, audiences won round and content shaped into delicious story-sized bites.

In this interactive workshop, you’ll have the opportunity to create, practice and refine a short presentation. You’ll learn how to craft your message, ‘own the stage’, interact with the audience and enjoy your time in the limelight. You will leave more relaxed than you walked in, with the practical skills needed to go forth and tell the world about your work.

Getting involved with public engagement is a fantastic opportunity for students. The skills they learn and the opportunities engaged teaching offers them set them up for careers inside and outside of academia. Across Warwick there are dozens of examples of modules/ lessons being created that either focus on teaching students about public engagement, or use engaged methods to teach students about a wide variety of topics. Everything from encouraging students to develop hands on activities, podcasts, or videos to explain a topic to a lay audience, up to building collaborative partnerships between students and communities.

This workshop will build on work done by the Public and Community Engagement Pedagogies Learning Circle to curate a handbook of examples of these engaged pedagogies (methods of teaching). If you're interested in exploring how you could create something like this in your department this session is a great opportunity to hear about practice from across Warwick and spend time considering the detailed practicalities - for example how might ethics and assessment come up for you? You'll be supported to design your own solution and receive peer feedback or your design.

Podcasting can be a powerful tool to engage with difficult-to-reach audiences, expand professional networks, and become established as an authority in your field. In this training, you'll learn about the tools you need to create compelling podcasts about research, to engage with different audiences, and increase your overall impact. As well as discussing the creation of an engaging narrative, this session will also teach you all the practicalities of audio production you need to get started on your own.