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Designing your public engagement support programme

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Take stock of your current support for public engagement
Learn from others: Stories of culture change
Develop an operational plan

This collection brings together some of our most popular resources, to help you to design and deliver your support programme for public engagement

updated on 09 Oct 2023

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Take stock of your current support for public engagement

The NCCPE’s EDGE tool provides a great place to start, providing a self assessment matrix to help you focus on what is working well and where you could focus efforts to enhance your support.

Assess your institutional culture: Introducing the EDGE tool

Explore the EDGE tool and how to use it to self-assess your support for public engagement.

Practical tools

The EDGE tool and how to use it

Use our self-assessment tools to build a clearer picture of how well your current support for public engagement is working.

Learn from others: Stories of culture change

It can really help your planning if you draw on learning from universities that have established support for public engagement. These resources provide comprehensive accounts of lessons learned by others, and practical examples of what they have done as a result.

Reports and reviews

Pathways to culture change

Lessons for culture change from the 10 universities who participated in RCUK's Catalyst Seed Fund project from 2015 - 2018.

Reports and reviews

Change Makers: Lessons from SEE-PER

Lessons for enriching and embedding cultures within HEIs where excellent public engagement with research is supported, valued, rewarded and integrated.

Reports and reviews

The engaged university: turning words in action

This report examines the state of play in strategic support for public engagement, not just in the UK, but within an international context too.

A Field Guide: Public engagement and culture change

A guide to supporting culture change, based on lessons learned by the University of Bath.

Develop an operational plan

We have produced several guides to help you plan and operationalise your support programme.

Using a logic model to develop your strategy

This guide by Mary-Clare Hallsworth, from 2020, is intended to help your logic modelling in developing your plans

How to develop indicators and KPIs

This guide provides a set of indicators which could be adapted to help you track change, linked to the EDGE tool categories.

How to write a business case for public engagement

This guide explains how to create a compelling business case for your support programme, to help you secure funding. It shows how you can structure your case, and how developing [...]

How to evaluate your support for public engagement

This guide explains how you can develop an evaluation plan to track the effectiveness of your support programme. It shows how having a ‘theory of change’ provides a helpful focus [...]

Public Engagement with Research: Implementation Plan 19/20

This resource is a worked example of how one institution (the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology) developed an implementation for their PE support programme. It outlines aims and objectives [...]