From social responsibility initiatives to research impact, public and patient involvement and engagement and volunteering, the following award schemes celebrate the many inspiring engagement activities of our people - staff, students, alumni and external partners -...
Public Engagement Blog posts
Policy, health and culture
This session took a closer look at policy, health and culture. Improving health and wellbeing has been recognised as important by policymakers, and engaging in the arts is proving to have an impact on building health and wellbeing. Speakers Colin Lorne Colin is a...
Digital engagement
Over three sessions, we hosted a programme of skills sharing sessions on engaging audiences digitally as part of The University of Manchester's Wellcome Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF) Public Engagement schemes. During these three online sessions we...
Engagement@Manchester forums
Are you interested in public engagement? Do you want to meet other like-minded people at the University? Would you like to hear some inspiring ideas? Then come along to this series of informal sessions exploring different aspects of public engagement. All university...
Guides
Take a look at some of these useful guides and toolkits, which aim to help support your public engagement activities.What's in it for me? The benefits of public engagement for researchers (UKRI) Researchers from across the UK share some of their personal highlights...
Resources
From useful guides and toolkits, to evaluation advice, and best practice sharing sessions, we’ve curated a set of resources to support your public engagement activities. You can find resources under the following categories: Guides Engagement@Manchester forums
Networks
Internal networks We host a number of networks bringing colleagues and external partners together to foster discussion and share good practice.Engagement@Manchester provides a series of informal meetings exploring different aspects of public engagement. There is a...
Training and development
We offer a host of training and development sessions for staff and students. The sessions are a mixture of presentations, activities and discussions to provide you with the knowledge and practical skills needed for public engagement activities. Training courses The...
Patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE)
Events where the public are actively involved in research projects and in research organisations or where information and knowledge about research is provided and disseminated.From involving patients in ground-breaking research to engaging the public in educational...
General public engagement opportunities
There are lots of local and national events to get involved in and even some global opportunities.Hosted by the Faculty of Science and Engineering, this free, interactive festival of exploration and experiments is a great chance to discover the fun behind science and...
Working with young people/schools – widening participation
Widening participation addresses patterns of under-representation in higher education. This programme is run by The Brilliant Club, an award-winning university access charity. They recruit and train doctoral and post-doctoral researchers to deliver programmes of...
Working with young people/schools
Getting involved with young people in a variety of ways.STEM Ambassadors are volunteers from a wide range of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) related jobs and disciplines across the UK. They offer their time and enthusiasm to help bring STEM...
Flash talks
Flash talks are short presentations given on a topic of research, written for a non-expert audience.PhD researchers: could you can reduce your 80,000-word thesis to 180 seconds and win £500? Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is a research communication competition developed...
Festivals
These are just some of the science, history and culture festivals taking place across Manchester and the UK that you may wish to take part in.Each year, we throw open our doors for our local friends and neighbours to discover the variety of work we do here at the...
Engagement opportunities
Here are just some of the many opportunities to get involved in public engagement activities or involve the public in your research. To stay up to date with current opportunities, follow us on Twitter or join the University Public Engagement mailing list. Ways to get...
University of Manchester funding
Funding available from our University.We offer funding to support and encourage staff and postgraduate students to share, inspire and involve the public with our work in line with our Public Engagement Strategy. If you are new to public engagement, up to £500 is...
Multidisciplinary funding
Funding opportunities across all disciplines.National Lottery funding can help you to make a difference in your community within the UK. We offer funding from £300 to £10,000 to support what matters to people and communities. Each country is running its own programme....
Arts, humanities and social sciences funding
Funding opportunities in arts, humanities and social sciences.Academics and film-makers are being encouraged to enter their work into the Research in Film Awards, designed to encourage, stimulate and recognise the body of work created at the interface between research...
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) funding
Funding opportunities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).Small grants are available to schools, community groups and individuals undertaking projects that concern the environment and involve people from ethnic communities. Find out more on the...
Health and life sciences funding
Funding opportunities in the health and life sciences.The Inspire Fund provides up to £25,000 in funding for innovative projects that engage the public with dementia and the life-changing research going on into the condition. Find out more on the Alzheimer's Research...
Funding
Public engagement activities are often funded through research grants or specific engagement awards from research funders, professional bodies or learned societies. A round-up of some of the available funding sources on offer can be found below. If you are looking to...
+Culture Shots; How Museums & Galleries Can Enhance Wellbeing
This was a week of events held in hospitals to promote the programmes of Manchester's museums and galleries. The events offered a chance for hospital staff to find out why culture works, and how they can use the expertise within Manchester's museums and galleries to...
Think About It!
This project involved engaging with young Manchester women to explore feminism and their aspirations around education. Dr Niamh Moore, from the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), worked collaboratively with Amelia Lee, a local youth worker from...
All My Worldly Possessions
This was an intergenerational family open day exploring stories of Guernsey/Bury World War 2 evacuees. Gill Mawson researched the Guernsey/Bury evacuee experience during WW2. She worked with Bury Archives to hold a family open day in October 2010 at Ramsbottom...
Wriggly Rangoli
This project saw large-scale public art (Rangoli) raise awareness of parasitic infections. A group of immunology researchers worked in partnership with Inspired Sisters, an Asian women's group from Longsight in Manchester. The aim was to demonstrate the role science...