This blog was originally published on the UCL Culture blog. 2018 marks the tenth anniversary of UCL’s Public Engagement Unit – not quite a silver or diamond jubilee –  but still a date to celebrate together, to pause and reflect on what we have collectively achieved in the last decade and to start a conversation about […]

Last week, the whole of the Public Engagement Unit descended on Bristol for the annual Engage conference, run by the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE). This is a big event in the public engagement world, as it’s one of the few times we get together as a sector to talk about what we […]

The Evaluation Exchange is a venture between UCL Public Engagement Unit and Aston Mansfield, which sees groups of researchers from UCL working together with a voluntary sector organisation (VSO) in east London to solve an evaluation challenge. Read previous post in this series. In today’s blog we’re meeting the team at the Alternatives Trust (Julia, Jenny and Jade) and their […]

How do we connect with communities around us, and how do we maintain those relationships? On the 29th November the Public Engagement Unit hosted a Public Engagement Network meeting on community partnerships. We had really excellent and lively discussions around the benefits, challenges and best practice associated with doing this kind of work, which we […]

  UCL is an open, publicly and globally engaged university. We value collaboration, partnership and dialogue. The UCL Public Engagement Unit works to help create the university UCL wants to be, and this blog has been created to help us share stories of successful public engagement, raise questions and invite collaboration. We are one of […]