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Consulting on our new strategy
By sarah.barnes, on 13 October 2025
Almost a year ago, we shared a blog post about our relaunched public engagement support at UCL and our hopes for the future. We’re really pleased to share that, in collaboration with colleagues from across UCL, we have now developed a draft strategy for consultation. This is a strategy for the UCL Public Engagement Team […]
Building solidarity amongst Iranian refugees through shared expression.
By o.adeosun, on 6 October 2025
Dr Roghieh Dehghan-Zaklaki is a doctoral researcher with UCL’s School of European Languages, Culture and Society. As well as this she is a practicing GP and was the mastermind behind an impressive public engagement programme in which she entered creative collaboration with her research communities. For this blog, she spoke to Siân Aggett about the […]
Engaging with the Cally Festival – Our Learning
By h.craig, on 28 August 2025
Helen Craig, Head of Public Engagement (programmes) reflects on her first time at the Cally Festival – and shares some thoughts on the experience of supporting those who are new to public engagement. The Cally Festival is a community festival that takes place each year on the Caledonian Road in Islington. Families and visitors experience […]
Engaging with the Cally Festival
By h.craig, on 30 June 2025
This July, UCL Public Engagement will be partnering with the Cally Festival for the first time. Helen Craig, joint Head of Public Engagement, Programmes, previews what you might see and explains why we’ll be there. Photograph Credit: Susannah Fields via Cally Festival The Cally Festival is a community festival that takes place each year on […]
Englicious – celebrating English Grammar Day
By sarah.barnes, on 17 June 2025
In this blog, Luke Pearce from the UCL Department of English Language and Literature explains their engagement project, and shares plans to celebrate English Grammar Day in 2025. Grammar can be a difficult topic to engage with, especially for people outside of schools and academia. For many, it’s something of a ‘marmite’ topic which conjures […]
Windows of the Soul: Co-creating artworks to understand visual impairment
By sarah.barnes, on 15 April 2025
Siegfried is a vitreoretinal fellow at Moorfields Eye Hospital and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at UCL. He had ten years of medical training and clinical practice under his belt before embarking upon a research career. As a second-year PhD student in the Institute of Ophthalmology in the faculty of brain science at UCL, Siegfried […]
Hearing underheard voices: A study engaged with mothers of children in social care
By sarah.barnes, on 12 March 2025
Claire Grant strives to develop an understanding of the mental health and support needs of women who have had their children placed into care through child protection processes within the English family court system. She is a is a third-year PhD student based in epidemiology and public health at UCL. A research area where Claire […]
Nurturing Kindness Through Engagement : Connecting Research into Pro-Social Behaviour with the Classroom
By sarah.barnes, on 19 February 2025
Aneeza Pervez works with primary school-aged children and explores how ‘pro-social behaviour’, or simply put, kindness, is understood and shaped through the social interactions that they have in school settings. She is in the final stages of her PhD research at the Institute of Education (Department of Psychology and Human Behaviour). She spoke with Siân […]
Co-producing co-production training for UCL
By sarah.barnes, on 11 December 2024
*Please note that expressions of interest for this project have now closed* We are embarking on an exciting new project in the Co-Production and Public Engagement team, and are looking for UCL staff or students to join a project to join a co-production team to develop an online co-production training course. Supported by the Research […]
Update from UCL’s Public Engagement Team
By sarah.barnes and h.craig, on 12 November 2024
We are pleased to let you know that the Public Engagement support offer at UCL has been relaunched! This blog outlines how we’re prioritising the needs of staff and students at UCL and shares our hopes for the future. Firstly, Helen Craig, Joint Head of Public Engagement, shares what is new: Welcome back to the […]