From Rachel.Jacobs at nottingham.ac.uk Thu Jun 6 10:56:26 2019 From: Rachel.Jacobs at nottingham.ac.uk (Rachel Jacobs) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 09:56:26 +0000 Subject: [Public-engagement] Invitiation to an interdisciplinary workshop about resilience on Thursday 13th June Message-ID: Resilience and the Future Machine: An Interdisciplinary Workshop A half-day workshop looking at interdisciplinary approaches to resilience, environmental change and how we create narratives about the future, risk and uncertainty. Through a combination of presentations, discussions and artist-led activities, the workshop will provide an opportunity to explore and share the different ways we are addressing issues of resilience across different research areas and arts practices. A key outcome will be the establishment of interdisciplinary networks that can respond to funding calls in the area of social/cultural/environmental resilience. Lunch will be provided! Book here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/resilience-and-the-future-machine-an-interdisciplinary-workshop-tickets-60466328416 This workshop is being co-hosted by Dr Rachel Jacobs (artist and Associate Researcher at the Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham) and Dr Spencer Jordan (Programme Director for BA English with Creative Writing, MA Creative Writing and PhD Creative Writing, University of Nottingham). Get in touch if you have any questions. (apologies for x-posting) Dr Rachel Jacobs ...................................... Artist/Active Ingredient Primary, 33 Seely Road Nottingham NG7 1NU ...................................... Associate Researcher Mixed Reality Lab University of Nottingham http://www.i-am-ai.net www.thepredictionmachine.org www.performingthefuture.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From theinstitute at nottingham.ac.uk Wed Jun 19 13:06:08 2019 From: theinstitute at nottingham.ac.uk (Br-The-Institute) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:06:08 +0000 Subject: [Public-engagement] REMINDER: Nottingham Engaged Conference - Pecha Kucha sessions Message-ID: Do you have an inspiring story to share with colleagues about policy impact or public engagement? Can you tell it in a few minutes? The Institute for Policy and Engagement's annual conference, Nottingham Engaged, is approaching on 17 September. Due to its success last year, we are looking for some shining examples of Nottingham's amazing policy and public engagement work to form the basis of a mini pecha kucha session during the opening plenary. Mini pecha kucha is a presentation format designed to keep things short and snappy. You're allowed a maximum of ten slides, and each slide automatically changes to the next after 20 seconds. Therefore you need to be concise, but you can also be much more confident of keeping your audience engaged. If you think you have a story you might want to tell at the conference, email the Institute and tell us about it. In particular, we're keen to know what you're most proud of and what you think the key learning points will be for your colleagues. We're taking submissions until Friday 28 June. We only have a few spaces available though, so it's up to you to grab our attention. It's open to anyone working on policy or public engagement work, whether you're an established academic, an early career researcher, working towards your PhD or supporting academics with this work. If you have any questions about the session, or about the conference in general, just email us and ask. We'll let you know if you've been successful by mid-July. Best wishes Charlotte Charlotte Lee Administrator and Executive Assistant Institute for Policy and Engagement B13 Highfield House University of Nottingham University Park Nottingham, NG7 2RD Tel: +44 (0) 115 74 87401 [cid:image001.jpg at 01D44539.C4D6A240] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 87098 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: From Madalina.Stalniceanu at nottingham.ac.uk Mon Jun 24 10:21:13 2019 From: Madalina.Stalniceanu at nottingham.ac.uk (Madalina Stalniceanu) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 09:21:13 +0000 Subject: [Public-engagement] Nottingham Women Expert Network - community engagement event, 26 June, 12-2pm Message-ID: Dear all, We thought you might be interested in the event below. Best wishes, Madalina Nottingham Women Expert Network June 2019 - Sign up to our next event on community engagement [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/acab855e3c51234cc8699b0b9/images/242c212d-f1d8-46dc-8e47-08285404d0a1.jpg] What is community engagement and what is it not? What are the benefits of meaningful engagement with communities for academic work but also for those people engaging with us? Wednesday 26 June 2019 12-2pm. Nottingham Trent University, Room 58 (fifth floor), Newton Building, Goldsmith Street, Nottingham. Free event with lunch provided. Chaired by Dr Paula Black of Nottingham Civic Exchange with panellists including Dr Alison Gardner from the Rights Lab at University of Nottingham, this one-hour discussion will be followed by an hour of networking and buffet lunch. Come along to find out how you can improve your engagement. More details and to sign up -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From theinstitute at nottingham.ac.uk Fri Jun 28 12:27:14 2019 From: theinstitute at nottingham.ac.uk (Br-The-Institute) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 11:27:14 +0000 Subject: [Public-engagement] Public Engagement Bulletin - June edition In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/23f9e664ba0b0620d1f884ed5/images/ea2d37da-0fce-436d-a110-34233abb36e2.png] Public Engagement Bulletin June 2019 [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/27dbe2623b441ebb6de9121f2/images/b3e66cf8-5866-4cec-aca8-5087d85bb9a1.jpg] The Public Engagement Opportunities Bulletin is a monthly round-up of key opportunities to support high quality engagement, brought to you by the Institute for Policy and Engagement. In this month's bulletin... * Wonder 2019 * Call for Volunteers - Clean Growth Ideas Hack Day * Nominations for the John Maddox Prize 2019 * Plus the usual round up of upcoming events, external funding opportunities and interesting stuff from the web Don't forget to keep us and your colleagues updated on all your public engagement plans via the Public Engagement mailman list. To post to this list, please send your email to public-engagement at lists.nottingham.ac.uk. You can also follow us on Twitter - @UoN_Institute. And of course you can contact us any time for advice and support on theinstitute at nottingham.ac.uk. Wonder 2019 Wonder, the University's free family day to ?amaze and inspire curious minds? took place at University Park Campus on Saturday 15 June with 5,000 visitors enjoying the event and taking part in a huge range of periodic table themed activities, workshops, experiments, talks and demonstrations. This year children were asked to write on wonder walls what they enjoyed the most about the day; these are just some of the comments: * ?I loved it because I got to hear the dog?s heart and stroke it. It was the best day!? * ?The brain room was amazing!? * ?I put a stick in a balloon and it didn?t pop!? * ?I really liked when I had my organs scanned and I saw my heart too!? Hundreds of staff, students and volunteers were part of the team who delivered Wonder, which would not have been possible without their commitment and enthusiasm. Thank you to everyone who was involved. Visitors are being asked to share their feedback via an online survey, so please do share this with anyone you know who attended the event (closing date 30 June 2019). [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/27dbe2623b441ebb6de9121f2/images/cb57e5f8-50af-47b3-a682-188019875fe9.jpg] Call for Volunteers - Clean Growth Ideas Hack Day The Festival of Science and Curiosity is running a secondary schools project linked to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Grand Challenges. Groups of students from eight Nottingham secondary schools will be working on a research project related to the theme of ?Clean Growth?, investigating potential scientific solutions to global trends that will transform our future. The students will present their projects at the Real Science in Schools Symposium as part of the Festival of Science and Curiosity in February 2020. To kick off the project, a Clean Growth Ideas Hack Day will be organised at the Council House in September. This day will include a Q&A with a panel of experts as well as a series of workshops and sessions designed to spark pupils? ideas for their projects. The organisers are looking for researchers, academics and experts in the broad field of ?Clean Growth? to take part in this project ? this could include engineers, chemists, architects, biologists, economists, sociologists, mathematicians and many other disciplines. Volunteers will take part in the Hack Day; this might include being a panellist, or supporting students to develop their ideas through the workshops. Volunteers will also paired up with school groups to continue to help them in developing their project over the Autumn Term; this commitment might vary across the schools but should include no more than four sessions with the pupils. The organisers can cover transport expenses and a DBS check for work related to this project and will train volunteers to develop their skills in communicating science and stimulating the ideas of secondary pupils. If you are interested in being part of this project, or want find out more, please get in touch with Megan Shore ? megan at ignitefutures.org.uk [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/27dbe2623b441ebb6de9121f2/images/ad9c5cf4-628a-4053-a904-ac429dcd0109.jpg] Conferences and Events outside Nottingham Science in Public Conference 2019 10-12 July 2019, Manchester The 13th annual Science in Public conference will provide an innovative, engaging, and creative interdisciplinary space to explore the intersection of science and publics. The theme for the conference is ?the global and the local?; the organisers hope to increase engagement between practitioners and researchers locally, nationally, and globally whilst also thinking through the implications of science communication and practice on the different scales we are often expected to and need to work on. Different Stages: Exploring public engagement for Drama and Theatre early career academics 25 July 2019, Bristol The themes of this workshop are LGBT+ and Queer histories, community engagement, and audiences and cultural participation. Guest speakers include Dr Kirsty Sedgman (Lecturer in Theatre and British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Bristol) and Dr Jana Funke (Senior Lecturer in Medical Humanities, Department of English and Film, University of Exeter). This workshop is the second in a series of five - the first was in Manchester in June and other workshops around different themes will take place in Glasgow, Birmingham, and London later in the year. Talking Maths in Public 29-31 August 2019, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge This conference runs in the UK every two years, for people who work in, or otherwise participate in, communicating mathematics to the public. [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/27dbe2623b441ebb6de9121f2/images/9f5e4ab6-1d02-452f-9880-bcdb64490919.jpg] Funding Opportunities Wellcome, Public Engagement Fund This fund enables individuals and organisations to use creative approaches in engaging the public with health research. The Public Engagement Fund is open to individuals and organisations (commercial and not-for-profit). Your project must focus on health, although this doesn?t need to be your organisation?s main focus or core activity. You can be working in the arts, culture, entertainment media, heritage, leisure, education, research, informal learning, social enterprise, non-profit and community sectors, or other fields. Successful projects need to support our public engagement goals, so it should do at least one of the following: * empower people by helping them to access, use, respond to, and/or participate in health research and innovation * improve health research by making it more people-centred, to better understand people?s experiences and draw on that knowledge * help people to value and think critically about science, health research, innovation and the role these play in society. Applications deadline: 9 July 2019. Royal Society of Chemistry, Outreach Fund This fund provides financial support for chemistry-based public and schools engagement activities. The grant scheme is open to all (individuals and organisations). This includes, but is not limited to, members of the Royal Society of Chemistry, member-led groups, researchers in academia or industry, museums, community groups, not-for-profit organisations, arts groups and libraries. There are two tiers of funding but only one of them is open at the moment: small grants - up to ?2,000. Next application deadline: 9 September 2019, 12 noon. John Maddox Prize 2019 - Nominations open The John Maddox Prize recognises the work of individuals who promote sound science and evidence on a matter of public interest, facing difficulty or hostility in doing so. Sir John Maddox, whose name this prize commemorates, was a passionate and tireless champion and defender of science, engaging with difficult debates and inspiring others to do the same. As a writer and editor, he changed attitudes and perceptions, and strove for better understanding and appreciation of science throughout his long working life. Winners will receive ?3000. An additional award is also made to someone who in the opinion of the judges is at an early stage of their career. Candidates must be nominated. The nomination form is available here. Deadline for submitting nominations: 19 July 2019. Worth checking 1. If you missed the third annual UNESCO Lecture featuring internationally acclaimed author Robert Macfarlane, you can watch the recording here. The annual UNESCO lecture aims to provide a platform for leading writers and thinkers to share their ideas and promote Nottingham city?s wide-ranging expertise on international literature, literacy and the wider creative economy. 2. The Summer 2019 issue of Vision, the University?s research and knowledge exchange magazine, is available in print and online. This issue is part of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the periodic table of elements. [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/27dbe2623b441ebb6de9121f2/images/565d5b9c-5539-48fd-b4ac-9ecf415f7a9a.png] Resources The Institute for Policy and Engagement can provide support and advice for your public engagement plans. Do get in touch with us if you would like to discuss anything further. Key contacts Stephen Meek, Director of the Institute for Policy and Engagement: 07966 373248 Dr Rachael Pearson, Head of Public Engagement: 07855 518063 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: