High Quality Engagement Resources

Think about your engagement skills

A set of varied skills are needed to develop and support high-quality engagement. The resources below explore three perspectives: the skills that Public Engagement Professionals need to support colleagues to develop excellent practice; the engagement skills researchers need to engage effectively; and the skills needed to lead public engagement, including a 'deep dive' into the expertise needed to lead environmental engagement.

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How to guides: high quality engagement practice

The NCCPE site contains lots of guidance to help you design and evaluate quality public engagement, which you can access through our resources page. Here is a sample:

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Community-based participatory research: A guide to ethical principles and practice

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Accessible and Inclusive Practice Guidelines

These guidelines are adapted with permission from the STFC Interact 2019 Code of Conduct. We value the participation of everyone in the NCCPE network and want our work to be [...]

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Online Engagement: A guide to creating and running virtual events

This guide was created as a response to the COVID-19 crisis, which saw many people move to online working from March 2020. This guide is a crowd-sourced resource, gathering knowledge [...]

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High quality engagement template

Use this template to think through your own engagement project.

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What Works guide: Engaging the public through social media

Guide to engaging the public through social media (2018)

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What Works guide: Artist and Researcher Collaborations

A guide from the NCCPE and contributors from across the sector on artist-researcher collaborations

How to Guides: high quality support for public engagement

Creating effective support for public engagement requires very significant expertise. Here’s a selection of guides to help design and deliver a high quality strategy and support programme.

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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.

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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

Find out what others are doing

We have a great selection of case studies on our website to inspire you with lots of great approaches to high quality engagement. Below are a few to get you started: