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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

*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 […]

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 […]

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. […]