The Public Engagement Champions Network is an initiative to empower and develop staff and students to help shape and deliver the University’s public engagement vision.

The initiative looks for people who are passionate about their own engagement and committed to promoting, facilitating and fostering the high-quality public engagement practice of others within their local areas. Our champions represent the diversity across our academic disciplines and professional services.

“Being a public engagement champion has helped me become more strategic, connect my work to wider networks of practice and encouraged me to raise my profile.”

Look out for our call for applications.

If you’d like to find out more about the Public Engagement Champion Network, email us at engagement@manchester.ac.uk.

Meet our Public Engagement Champions

We asked our champions to tell us about their interests in public engagement.

Please note that information was correct at the time of collection, but may not be current.

2019 / 2020 Champions

• Mathieu Augustin
• Georgina Binnie
• Sarah Crowther
• Bentley Crudgington
• Naomi Curati
• Jerome De Groot
• Kathryn Downey
• Katie Druce
• Matthew Jones
• Karen Lander
• Cecilia Medupin
• Michael O’Toole
• Hellen Parra Florez

2018 / 2019 Champions

• Yvette Jeal
• Emma Nichols
• Mike Sanders
• Claire White
• Richard Unwin
• Jana Wendler
• Nick Weise
• Jo Pennock
• Roger Harrison
• Ed Thomas