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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 […]
Every Face, A Voice: Engaging Communities in Mumbai, India, in Speaking Out Against Violence Against Women
By Briony Fleming, on 27 February 2024
In this blog Sukanya Paradkar and Lu Gram from SNEHA Mumbai and UCL Institute for Global Health respectively talk about a social psychology experiment and poster campaign carried out in Mumbai, India to address violence against women. Sukanya and Lu share their experiences carrying out a public engagement activity on a topic as sensitive as […]
Understanding Variation in Health Visiting
By Briony Fleming, on 17 December 2023
This Blog has been written by Amanda Clery together with Emily and Claire, members of a parents group Amanda has been working with. This blog post offers reflections on a long-term, collaborative public engagement group to support research into understanding variation in health visiting, as part of Amanda’s PhD at UCL Institute of Child Health. […]
Ethnic Health Inequity and Data Justice – A Conversation with Abdullahi
By h.craig, on 18 May 2023
This article has been written by Abdullahi, a young person from Coram Young Citizens. Young Citizens is Coram’s award winning programme for 16-25 year olds from migrant and refugee backgrounds who make a difference to the lives of other young people new to the UK through direct work, improving practice and policy change. Find out […]
Ethnic Health Inequity and Data Justice – A Conversation with Abdulrahman
By h.craig, on 10 May 2023
This article has been written by Abdulrahman, a young person from Coram Young Citizens. Abdulrahman came from Syria and has lived in the UK for 5 years. Young Citizens is Coram’s award winning programme for 16-25 year olds from migrant and refugee backgrounds who make a difference to the lives of other young people new […]
UCL welcomes three new STEP trainees
By sadesarumi, on 16 December 2022
This blog has been written collaboratively by Sadé Sarumi, Salma Mohamed and Makella Ketedzi introducing themselves as they joined UCL. Now five-months in to their time at UCL watch this space for further updates. This year UCL welcomes three (yes, three!) new STEP trainees working across teams at UCL. STEP, east London’s Shared Training Employment […]
8 recommendations for running online training – revisited!
By Jordan Abankwah, on 1 May 2022
This blog has been written by Ben Littlefield (Public Engagement Manager – BEAMS UCL) it reflects on public engagement training delivered for the UCL internal community: undergraduates, postgraduates, academic and professional services staff over the past two years. Two years ago, we published a blog entitled ‘8 Simple (recommended) Rules for running online training’ this […]
Why you should get creative with your research
By Jordan Abankwah, on 31 March 2022
Holly shares her thoughts on the positive impact engagement and involvement have had on her work – and the benefits of being creative! My name is Holly, and I’m a PhD student at University College London in the Institute of Epidemiology & Healthcare, funded by the NIHR School for Primary Care Research (SPCR). Here, I […]
UCL Repair Café: Hope, confidence and friendship
By Jordan Abankwah, on 11 March 2022
The following blog has been written by Sara Brouwer (Institute of Making), Fiona Dear (The Restart Project), Ben Littlefield (UCL Engagement) and Rupy Kaur Matharu (Mechanical Engineering Researchers Society). The UCL Repair Café that took place on 17th February 2022 was a collaboration between the Institute of Making, UCL Engagement, Dean Sully and volunteers from […]
Help shape UCL’s Strategic Priorities
By Briony Fleming, on 26 January 2022
Share your thoughts on UCL’s proposed new strategic plan and encourage your external partners to do the same. As you may know by now, UCL is consulting on a brand-new five-year strategic plan and is keen to get feedback from both the UCL community and the external partners and communities that we work with. We […]
