Beacon Bursary funding awarded: engagement projects in east London.

UCL Culture is delighted to announce the awardees in the latest round of Beacon Bursary Public Engagement funding.

The Beacon Bursary grant programme supports staff and postgraduate research students at UCL to embed public engagement with external communities as a core activity within their research and teaching. The scheme funds public engagement activities that enhance staff and postgraduate research students’ activity, skills and understanding of public engagement. In the latest round funding was made available for projects working with communities in east London, as part of a programme of strategic activities that aim to embed engagement as a normal, valued activity for UCL staff and postgraduate research students as we move to our new east London campus.

The funded projects are:

• Saffron Woodcraft – Institute for Global Prosperity: Piloting 'The Good Life Game' as a participatory method to engage young people with research about prosperity in Hackney Wick, east London
• Chi Nguyen – Bartlett School of Architecture: Creative Participatory Publishing for Community Organising
• Cini Bhanu - Primary Care and Population Health: The Story of my Pills: medication use in dementia in east London
• Hannah Jennings – Institute for Global Health: Sharing knowledge about Diabetes

To read more about the projects and what they plan to do visit the Beacon Bursary page on the UCL Culture website.