[Public-engagement] FW: Public Engagement & Performance Conference 29th & 30th March 2019

[Alex Miles]

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Alex Miles
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From: Public Engagement Network <NCCPE-PEN at JISCMAIL.AC.UK> On Behalf Of Kitrina Douglas
Sent: 28 January 2019 12:08
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Subject: Public Engagement & Performance Conference 29th & 30th March 2019


This morning on BBC Radio 4 “Start the week” Elizabeth Pisani, Visiting Senior Research Fellow King’s College London, said:

"You sometimes think this whole public engagement with science through arts or whatever is like, Ugh! Really? Is that a good use of my time?"

At the public engagement and performance conference we think it is vital (to the ongoing impact of research) for the public to access, understand and engage with our work.
It is, after all, the public who fund, use, and/or participate in research. Vital, therefore, to our ongoing public engagement work is the need for both artists and scientists to understand and appreciate each others contribution to public understanding, those the wider communities we serve.
The Public Engagement and Performance Conference brings together creative, innovative practitioners and projects to offer illustrations, to provoke conversation, understanding, insight.

Pisani went on to say:
"But what you’ve just said calls to mind an example. I was working with a centre for infectious disease research in Vietnam and they had an artist in residence and I was talking to a senior scientist who works on pigs there. He said, “I spoke to her and she was interesting, but I did think What’s the point?” Then I looked at her artwork and she’d made this gorgeous marble sculpture that was a crouched form, you could see the spine, and I looked at it and I thought, I can’t tell if that’s a pig or a human. Then I thought, If I were a bacteria, or an organ, I wouldn’t care either. And I thought that was really interesting ‘cause we think of public engagement as, It’s a way of us explaining to them, the great unwashed, the unscientific, but sometimes engaging with artists can make youthink, Uh, yeah, maybe I should think about my work a bit differently.

 “Start the week: The health of science”
Monday 28 January 2019
BBC Radio 4
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00026ws


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[Text Box: Call for Submissions  5th Public Engagement & Performance Conference   The Hepworth, Wakefield, March 29th & 30th 2019] The Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield

Poised dramatically on the banks of the River Calder, the David Chipperfield designed Hepworth Gallery provides an inspirational backdrop to our 2019 Public Engagement & Performance Conference. The gallery was voted museum of the year in 2017 ahead of the Tate Modern due to its “breath-taking” exhibitions and its contribution to contemporary sculpture. As such, we believe The Hepworth Wakefield provides an inspirational backdrop to bring into focus public engagement issues, challenges and potentialities. We hope you will be able to join us.
Barbara Hepworthonce said that ‘sculpture is the translation of meaning’. Making meaning and communicating research takes place across a landscape of possibilities. In a contemporary-media savvy world, how do researchers mine the possibilities and show impact?

Our aims with the conference are:
To bring together researchers (from across the arts, humanities and social sciences, STEM) who are at various stages of the research process, and with different expertise and experience.
To inspire, support, develop, share and foster greater awareness around our social responsibility, research practices, to introduce delegates to different ways of answering their research questions, to forge collaborations, and all with an eye on making a difference in the world by engaging the public with research. Important though these ideas are, we also want to communicate through representations that are ethically sensitive, relevant, timely, creative and imaginative.



There are a variety of ways to participate:



1. Share a conference paper or presentation

2. Deliver or take part in a workshop


3. Present a film/installation/performance


4. Watch, listen, learn, engage - there’s no requirement to present/perform

Previous conferences have drawn delegates from Anthropology, Sociology, Sport & Exercise Science, Clinical Trials Research, Counselling & Psychotherapy, Dance, Drama, Education, Health & Social Change, Nursing, Medicine, Business Management and Marketing, and from the USA, Canada, South America, Australia, UK & Europe.

Get a feel for the conference from delegates attending previous conferences: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hPRnQ0oTd8      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH6-2xlZ828      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlbC916GIY0

Submit an abstract  http://engageyork2015.org.uk/submissions/

Additional information, enquiries or questions: info at engageyork2015.org.uk<mailto:info at engageyork2015.org.uk>


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Recent publications
Douglas, K., & Carless, C. (ifirst) The Long Run: A Story About Filmmaking as Qualitative Research. Qualitative Inquiry.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800418808549<https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1077800418808549>

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