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Explore case studies from past Public Engagement projects:
Talking liver cancer in Sierra Leone
A public engagement project about liver cancer that took an interesting turn in response to unexpected circumstances.
2013
Themes: Brokering networks, Learn to listen
Co-production: Action Youth Boxing Intervention
Using expertise of many kinds to support students who are experiencing challenges.
2018
Themes: Co-production; Young people; Develop a dialogue; Embed a change
Developing researchers' engagement skills, and creating more dialogue around university collections, though engagement in museums.
2013 - 2019
Themes: Museums; Researcher development; Start a conversation
UCL World Stroke Day forum brought together over 100 stroke survivors and their carers with six UCL research and clinical groups and four charity partners.
Themes: Collaborative conference; Develop a dialogue
A collaboration between members of the East Bank partnership to bring together local residents and the institutions moving into east London.
Themes: Workshop; Start a conversation
A comedy night where the comedians are academics and the audience is enthralled.
Themes: Comedy night; Find your voice
Bright Club Persona: a student's experience
In this "persona" case study, we explore a student's experience of the project.
Themes: Comedy night; Find your voice
Jeevan Shakti Mela - Festival for Lifeforce
A Mela (fair) involving participatory research, traditional
art, interactive games, and drama in rural plains Nepal, exploring Type Two Diabetes.
Themes: Festival; Participation; Start a conversation
We are here! Black Feminist Exploration
A retreat for black women academics and non-academics from the UK to collaboratively explore Black British feminism.
2014
Themes: Workshop, Start a conversation
Art and War: Responses to Iraq
Three workshops and an exhibition were organised in February-March 2013 to work with communities in London to explore art produced in response to the Iraq invasion.
2013
Themes: Exhibition, Develop a dialogue
Global Stories in Domestic Spaces
A project with the community local to Osterley Park, London, to create a series of videos, photographs and oral histories that would link the Park’s history to life in contemporary Britain.
2013
Themes: Exhibition, Develop a dialogue
A series of evening events where academics from the School of European Languages, Culture and Society gave short, fun talks on their research to public audiences.
2014
Themes: Find your voice, Talk
Senior citizens from six different places of worship in West London were involved in a participatory photographic project resulting in an exhibition shown at UCL and at the Gunnersbury Park Museum.
2013
Themes: Photography, Start a conversation
Stall at Green Man Festival on ’neurodiversity’ demonstrated by highlighting differences in how we all experience the world around us through our senses.
2016
Themes: Festival, Find your voice
Clinicians, patients and young people were brought together to explore the role of beatboxing in voice rehabilitation and raise awareness of the difficulties facing those without voice boxes.
2017
Themes: Workshop, Develop a Dialogue
An innovative model of engagement in a museum environment, using iPads in UCL Museums to enable co-curation of objects.
2012
Themes: Digital, Start a Conversation
Part of the Reveal Festival, involv a range of people including UCL staff and students, members of the local community, creative organisations, local businesses and food enthusiasts.
2010
Themes: Event, Find Your Voice
Engaging with mental health research in very late life
Discussion groups in day centres with older people, to discuss the topics of wellbeing in later life and what facilitates or hinders this.
2017
Themes: Workshops, Learn to Listen
Oral Health and Performance in Sport
A symposium including engagement in its design, and building on previous learning. An example of how engagement can increase the impact of health research.
2012
Themes: Symposium, Learn to Listen
This was the first time a cohesive public engagement programme has been co-ordinated by the UCL Public Engagement Unit (PEU) within the Bloomsbury Festival.
2013
Themes: Festival, Find Your Voice
The Birdshot Day was set up to bring together people with Birdshot Chorioretinopathy, their friends and family members, and healthcare professionals with an interest in this area.
2010
Themes: Patient Day, Develop a Dialogue
Workshops in Stratford Library on the subject of coding, giving the young people a chance to learn from, meet, and question leading researchers and practitioners in the field.
2014
Themes: Workshop, Find Your Voice
Sessions bringing together patients with macular degenerationand restaurants in East London in research on nutrition and eye health.
2016
Themes: Workshop, Develop a Dialogue
