Public Engagement

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UCL's Public Engagement Unit

The Unit works to support activities which encourage a culture of two-way conversations between university staff and students, and people outside the university.

The UCL Public Engagement Unit is one of six in the United Kingdom to be funded by the Beacons for Public Engagement programme set up by HEFCE, Research Councils UK and the Wellcome Trust.

The Public Engagement Unit supports UCL staff and students involved in activities like:

Telling public groups about our work.
Supporting communities with our expertise.
Nurturing a society in which the next generation want to take part in research, teaching and learning.
Letting people outside the University contribute their research and knowledge to our programmes.
Taking part in dialogue about the direction of our research and teaching.
Creating knowledge in collaboration with communities and interest groups outside the University.

Examples of UCL staff and students' public activities.

Beacons funding is intended primarily for work with adults. It can be used to experiment in the hope of learning lessons that can be shared with other Higher Education Institutions, and aims to change the culture of the University and the sector.

Virginia creeper on the South Wing building of UCL

Beacons funding is intended to help the staff of UCL:

To work with audiences that UCL does not traditionally talk or listen to, including socially excluded people.
To situate UCL in London better, through work with our local communities and creative organisations around us.
To find new models for public-academic dialogue in all of UCL's subjects, especially those outside science and medicine.
To increase the amount and quality of public engagement work undertaken at UCL.

The logos of the Beacons for Public Engagement, HEFCE, Research Councils UK and The Wellcome Trust

Beacons for Public Engagement - funded by the UK funding councils, Research Councils UK and the Wellcome Trust

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