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By Lizzy Baddeley, on 6 August 2020
When the Community Engagement Team began our second programme of Trellis – a collaborative programme bringing together UCL researchers, artists and east London communities – we did not expect that those collaborations would need to be fostered during a global pandemic.
By Briony Fleming and Lizzy Baddeley, on 14 January 2019
This Blog has been written by Lizzy Baddeley: Project Manager (EPSRC Community Engagement), who is leading the Trellis project. Trellis is exploring methods for knowledge exchange between university and community partners. So, what’s the best way to bring together a group of artists and a group of researchers who have never met before to help […]
By Lizzy Baddeley, on 12 December 2018
“Twas the month before Christmas, when all through the UK The public engagement professionals were coming out to play” Every November, the UCL Engagement team makes a yearly pilgrimage to the Engage conference, a national gathering of engagement professionals organised by the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE). It’s a chance for us to […]
By Lizzy Baddeley, on 17 July 2018
This blog is written by Sharon Brooks, Event Manager at UCL Culture. Sharon led on the Textile 100 Event at the Olympic Park Stratford in 2018. The handkerchief was a powerful symbol of camaraderie and identity in the past. Women sought social change through the language of textiles. Inmates’ signatures and the struggle were inscribed, […]
By Lizzy Baddeley, on 8 May 2018
This is the second in our series of responses to the UCL Public Engagement Unit’s 10th birthday. This blog from Iwona Bisaga, a PhD student in the Centre for Urban Sustainability and Resilience, suggests that UCL needs to lead by example and advocate more widely across the Higher Education sector about the importance of public engagement. Coming from […]
By Lizzy Baddeley, on 23 April 2018
In the first in a series of responses to the UCL Public Engagement Unit’s 10th birthday this blog from Professor Ian Needleman (UCL Eastman Dental Institute) asks what more we can do with our physical spaces at UCL. Laura Cream in her provocative blog asks ‘Are we being ambitious enough for public engagement at UCL?’. The […]
By Lizzy Baddeley, on 21 March 2018
Bright Club is the thinking person’s comedy night, where UCL researchers become stand up comedians. Run by the UCL Public Engagement Unit. In February 2018, we took Bright Club to a new venue in East London, Stratford Circus, for the first time as part of our UCL East engagement strategy. This post was written by […]
By Lizzy Baddeley, on 26 February 2018
There’s only one week left to nominate an individual/a team/a community partner for a UCL Provost’s Award for Public Engagement. The awards aim to celebrate the very best mutually beneficial engagement with external communities that has taken place at UCL over the last year. At this auspicious time, we wanted to take a look back […]
By Lizzy Baddeley, on 5 February 2018
This is a guest post by Rachael Frost and Pushpa Nair from the UCL Centre for Ageing Population Studies sharing learning from their project Engaging with mental health in very late life. This project was funded by a UCL Beacon Bursary. Getting frail older people involved in research can be challenging. Mobility issues, sensory impairments, and potentially some cognitive impairments, […]
By Lizzy Baddeley, on 26 January 2018
This is a guest post written by Delan Devakumar, Dinesh Deokota, Sunita Thapa, Sophiya Dulal and Joanna Morrison about their Wellcome Trust funded engagement project in Nepal. Both Delan and Joanna are health researchers at UCL focusing on Nepal. Child marriage is very common in many parts of the world. Despite being illegal in Nepal, it […]
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