Outreach and public engagement

How universities can use civic engagement and collaboration to get local communities and the broader public involved in their work and generate positive impacts felt beyond the campus walls. These resources also explore effective ways to reach out and engage with school pupils and groups underrepresented in higher education to break down potential barriers to access.  

By Eliza.Compton, 6 December, 2023
Key components of positive community engagement include institutional-, faculty- and course-level links, writes Tom Williamson. Here, he offers a road map for embedding universities in their local area and regional economy
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4minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 4 December, 2023
What is best practice for universities’ public engagement? How do you enlist the public in your research? And how do you keep them interested in the long term? Two 2022 THE Awards winners share their insights – from their experiences tracking Covid and decoding Dickens
By sara.custer, 30 November, 2023
As an official partner of the Commonwealth Games 2022, the University of Birmingham housed and fed over 3,000 athletes from across the globe. Malene Stanley explains how they turned their campus into an athletes’ village in just a few months
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3minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 21 November, 2023
You need to get updates and other messages to faculty and staff, but they don’t have much time for internal communications. Here, Kelly Hibbs offers tips to reach a busy audience in a quick, engaging, accessible way
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3minutes