Engage with us

Our new campus will be open, accessible and publicly-engaged, with spaces that can be shared and used by those who live, work or study in east London.

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We are already building strong relationships with local communities.

UCL has a proud history of being the first university in England to be open to all, regardless of gender, background or faith. As we move into east London we recognise the importance of being an active part of our local community: using our research together with the experiences of those who live and work in east London to effect meaningful long-term change.

Participants to an activity at the 2019 Great Get Together event on QEOP

Online Engagement Training

Undertake up to four online modules in public and community engagement, which will address many topics, from incorporating public engagement within your research, to planning your evaluation activities.

Girl writing on board at the Great Get Together 2019 event on QEOP

Train and Engage

This flagship training and funding programme has been developed to support UCL postgraduate research students with their ideas for engagement.

Trellis

This academic, artist and community co-creation project delivers a range of activity designed to support and facilitate university-community partnership working. This includes events, funding and training.

A session organised as part of the Creating Connections project

Funding opportunities

One of the main streams of activities of the Community Engagement (East) team is to offer funding to support the development of engagement in east London.

Growing community university partnerships

As part of the Trellis project, the engagement team is helping build capacity among UCL for researchers to participate in community engagement and knowledge exchange, by expanding and digitising its training offer and running a programme of networking activities.

Participants at a networking event as part of the Creating Connections project

Creating Connections East

This project brings together UCL staff and postgraduate students with representatives from community organisations, charities, residents’ groups, social enterprises and statutory organisations in east London, with the aim of finding ways to work together.