[Public-engagement] Public Engagement Bulletin - June edition

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                    Public Engagement Bulletin
                                                     June 2019
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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<http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/public-engagement>. To post to this list, please send your email to public-engagement at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:public-engagement at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>.

You can also follow us on Twitter - @UoN_Institute<https://twitter.com/UoN_Institute>. And of course you can contact us any time for advice and support on theinstitute at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto: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<https://www.snapsurveys.com/wh/s.asp?k=156037280898>, so please do share this with anyone you know who attended the event (closing date 30 June 2019).

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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<https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/industrial-strategy-the-grand-challenges/industrial-strategy-the-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<mailto:megan at ignitefutures.org.uk>

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Conferences and Events outside Nottingham

Science in Public Conference 2019<https://sip2019.com/>
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<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/different-stages-bristol-workshop-tickets-63477999405>
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<http://talkingmathsinpublic.uk/>
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.

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Funding Opportunities
Wellcome, Public Engagement Fund<https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/schemes/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<https://wellcome.ac.uk/what-we-do/our-work/public-engagement>, 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<https://www.rsc.org/awards-funding/funding/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<https://senseaboutscience.org/activities/maddox-prize-2019-nominations/>
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<https://senseaboutscience.org/activities/maddox-prize-nomination-form/>.

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<https://nottinghamcityofliterature.com/live>. 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<https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vision/vision.aspx?utm_source=researchhome&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=visionthree> of Vision, the University’s research and knowledge exchange magazine, is available in print and online<https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vision/vision.aspx>. This issue is part of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the periodic table of elements.

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Resources
The Institute for Policy and Engagement can provide support and advice for your public engagement plans. Do get in touch with us<mailto:theinstitute at nottingham.ac.uk> if you would like to discuss anything further.

Key contacts
Stephen Meek<mailto:stephen.meek at nottingham.ac.uk>, Director of the Institute for Policy and Engagement: 07966 373248
Dr Rachael Pearson<mailto:rachael.pearson at nottingham.ac.uk>, Head of Public Engagement: 07855 518063

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