[Public-engagement] Public Engagement Opportunities Bulletin, Winter 2023

[The Institute]

The Public Engagement Opportunities Bulletin is a round-up of key opportunities to support high quality engagement, brought to you by the Institute for Policy and Engagement.
Our approach to public engagement awarded a national Silver Engage Watermark!
We are delighted to have been awarded a prestigious Silver Engage Watermark by the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE). The watermark recognises the university’s commitment to involving the public in its work and the sharing of knowledge, teaching and research.

Every year, the university engages and interacts with many thousands of people and organisations, sharing knowledge and insights from our research and teaching, and working with business and civic partners to co-produce innovative solutions to the challenges faced by society.

The NCCPE (https://nottingham.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27dbe2623b441ebb6de9121f2&id=808ee4e8ec&e=6a459677d8) works to build an inclusive higher education sector where communities can contribute to, and benefit from, knowledge, teaching and research, and its Silver Engage Watermark indicates that engagement runs through the fabric of the University of Nottingham.
“I am delighted that the University of Nottingham’s commitment to public engagement has won national recognition...Public engagement is at the core of our mission as a civic university and our mission as a University without borders”

Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Jane Norman
In the past year, University of Nottingham students, researchers, technicians and colleagues engaged with more than 22,000 people through festivals and public programmes such as the Nottingham Festival of Science and Curiosity (https://nottingham.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27dbe2623b441ebb6de9121f2&id=28541a3f70&e=6a459677d8) , Science in the Park (https://nottingham.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27dbe2623b441ebb6de9121f2&id=82d469cebb&e=6a459677d8) , which is held at Wollaton Hall, Pint of Science (https://nottingham.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27dbe2623b441ebb6de9121f2&id=853d971b5b&e=6a459677d8) , which takes place in pubs, and Being Human (https://nottingham.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27dbe2623b441ebb6de9121f2&id=3652ba4c89&e=6a459677d8) , which highlights the ways in which the humanities can inspire and enrich our everyday lives.

More than 200,000 people engage annually with the university’s Lakeside Arts (https://nottingham.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27dbe2623b441ebb6de9121f2&id=90a5d74183&e=6a459677d8) , our on-campus public arts centre and cultural programme and the University's free-to-access public lectures, arts performances, exhibition and museum education events were attended by more than 110,000 people in 2022/23.
Watch our acceptance video here (https://nottingham.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27dbe2623b441ebb6de9121f2&id=eef7a7c21e&e=6a459677d8)
Read our official press release here (https://nottingham.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27dbe2623b441ebb6de9121f2&id=dd43e4c8ea&e=6a459677d8)
Celebrating success


** The Institute for Policy and Engagement Awards are now open!
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The Institute for Policy and Engagement is delighted to announce the fifth Policy Impact and Public Engagement Awards (https://nottingham.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27dbe2623b441ebb6de9121f2&id=9417b71b0b&e=6a459677d8) . These awards aim to recognise the excellent work by staff on all University of Nottingham campuses in achieving policy impact and engaging the public with current UoN research.

We invite both self-nominations and nominations made on behalf of peers and colleagues.

There are six award categories:
*  Best Policy Impact Initiative
*  Best Public Engagement Initiative
*  Rising Star Award – Policy Impact (for early career researchers)
*  Rising Star Award – Public Engagement  (for early career researchers)
*  The Institute Director’s Award (for non-academic staff who have played a key role in the success of policy impact or public engagement work)
*  Best School Engagement Initiative (in partnership with Widening Participation)

Nominations close on 19 January 2024.

Nominate and find out more HERE (https://nottingham.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27dbe2623b441ebb6de9121f2&id=c4b169d530&e=6a459677d8)


** Training opportunities
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Public Engagement Masterclass: Design an engaging tabletop activity to engage your festival audience
This session will provide you with the tools to create a successful engaging activity to deliver at festivals. We will explore best practice, generate ideas and share concepts before spending the second half of the session developing a chosen idea into an outline plan for an activity, complete with key communication points, budget requirements and success metrics.

The workshop will be led by Charlotte Land is a STEM Education and Public Engagement specialist with over 10 years’ experience of co-producing workshops, tabletop activities and STEM projects with universities, businesses, schools and communities.

The session is suitable for research academics, from all faculties, who is looking to create a new tabletop activity or freshen up an existing one.

DATE: Wednesday 17 January 2024, 9.30am - 12.30pm
LOCATION:  Monica Partridge Building (Room C17), University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2BF
Book your place here (https://nottingham.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27dbe2623b441ebb6de9121f2&id=12ae7830d8&e=6a459677d8)

Funding Opportunities
Green Hustle 2024 call for proposals

Following the success of Green Hustle 2023, The Institute for Policy and Engagement is excited to announce a small grants scheme (https://nottingham.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27dbe2623b441ebb6de9121f2&id=47a764be54&e=6a459677d8)  that allows researchers to contribute to their programme in 2024.

We are calling for proposals, for participatory research on sustainability, which directly involve urban communities in projects that have a lasting positive environmental impact. We wish to build connections, increase access to nature and help enable behaviour change.

The theme for this year’s Green Hustle is Common Ground.  Projects can respond to this in a literal sense, with a focus on soil and understanding the world beneath our feet, or explore relationships and community-based decision making.

Projects must run between the start of February and end of June and include a contribution to the festival programme (weekend of 31^st May). This could be hosting a discussion, running a demonstration or workshop, showcasing an installation or creating a performance.

Funded through our Research England’s Participatory Research allocation there is a total of £15k available, which we expect will be split between three projects.  The maximum amount you can apply for is £6k. Bids must be submitted no later than 5pm on Monday 15 January 2024.
Discover more here (https://nottingham.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27dbe2623b441ebb6de9121f2&id=14dbe1ee34&e=6a459677d8)
Upcoming events
Black Holes and the dark Universe 

Every month the University hosts a public science lecture which are open to staff, students and the general public.

Our next lecture, on Thursday 14th December, will focus on the mysteries of black holes and the dark universe.  Three pioneering researchers from the University of Nottingham will explore how we can study these cosmological mysteries, even if we cannot observe them directly.

Lecture spaces are still available but please note that spaces on the ARTLab tour, the University’s experimental workspace for ArtScience research and practice, which follows the lecture are now full.
Book your free lecture place HERE (https://nottingham.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=27dbe2623b441ebb6de9121f2&id=ead652241d&e=6a459677d8)

Your Public Engagement team

Maria Richards (mailto:Maria.richards at nottingham.ac.uk) , Head of Public Engagement
Sally Nightingale, (mailto:Sally.nightingale at nottingham.ac.uk) Public Engagement Project Manager
theinstitute at nottingham.ac.uk (mailto:theinstitute at nottingham.ac.uk?subject=Newsletter%20enquiry)

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