Are you involved in public engagement at Lincoln? Would you like more training or support? We’d like to know.
Engaging the public with research is a key part of the University’s activity as it makes research more accessible, interesting, relevant and valuable to wider society. This helps increase public support for universities, develop new partnerships and introduce new ideas, supporting recruitment and enhancing research quality, capacity and impact.
The RCUK-funded PEARL (Public Engagement for All with Research at Lincoln) project aims to enhance the University’s approach to involving the public in research. We recently carried out a survey of attitudes amongst staff and students to the University’s current provision for public engagement with research – you can read more about the results here.
Drawing on the results from this survey, the next steps for PEARL are to find out (1) what public engagement activities are currently taking place and (2) what sort of training / CPD, support, opportunities and recognition staff and students would like to see made available. We can then add activities to our website so that people can see how much public engagement happens and where to find it, and access CPD which suits staff and students.
To do this, we would like to invite all University staff and students to complete a survey. It should only take about ten minutes, and can be found here. Please complete the survey before it closes on Friday 16th February at 4pm. Your responses can be anonymous and will be very much appreciated.