Training

This half-day workshop is designed for anyone looking to take their first steps in public engagement or those who have undertaken projects before but would like to cement their learning in this area. By the end of the session, you will:

• Have an awareness of Queen Mary's approach to public engagement and the support available at the University for this work
• Be able to shape engagement activities using the most appropriate method based on purpose, context and audience
• Be able to apply best practice techniques in planning engagement, including monitoring and evaluation.

 Forthcoming dates:

• TBC

Book onto the Public Engagement Masterclass 

This workshop will introduce how engaging patients, carers and the public can serve as an effective means to inform health-related research throughout the research process. By the end of the session you will:

• Understand what roles patients can play in research (not including clinical trials)
• Have a variety of good practice examples of patient and public involvement activities from Queen Mary researchers who have engaged clinical patients to inform and contribute to their research process
• Understand practical and logistical elements of public and patient involvement, and be able to plan your own activities 

Forthcoming dates:

• TBC

Book onto the Introduction to involving patients in your work session (search course code: RD-PE-006)*

Please note: we are happy to have individuals from Barts NHS Trust join us for this training, although you may be unable to book using the online system. If this is the case, please contact the CPE directly to book your space (publicengagement@qmul.ac.uk). 

Engaging with communities can serve as an effective means to develop your work at Queen Mary and can make a positive contribution to the local area. This workshop is designed for anyone looking to engage a community where their research can have an impact, focusing on Tower Hamlets as an example. By the end of the session you will:

• Understand how you can work with community organisations to not only engage with groups of people, but to also inform and contribute to the research process
• Have a number of good practice examples of community engagement from Queen Mary and UK researchers that you can draw upon
• Understand the practical and logistical considerations to working with communities and explore ways to evidence the impact of community engagement

Forthcoming dates:

• TBC

Book onto the Introduction to working with communities session (search course code: RD-PE-001)

This workshop is designed to give you an introduction on how to best engage with drop-in audiences at events like festivals, pop-up stalls and museum lates. By the end of the session you will:

• Learn more about the different types of events and festivals that you could take your research to
• Understand how best to engage with audiences in the short, drop-in interactions of these types of events
• Understand what the benefits and challenges are in taking part in these events
• Have some understanding of how to creatively design activities for hands-on engagement

Forthcoming dates:

• TBC

Book onto the Hands on Engagement: taking research to events and festivals session (search course code: RD-PE-008)

This workshop is designed to introduce you to the importance of evaluation in public engagement and introduce you to some of the tools and techniques you can use to achieve this. By the end of the session you will:

• Understand why evaluation is so important for public engagement activities and how this can relate to the Impact agenda 
• Understand how to plan for evaluation and embed this into your activities
• Have explored different innovative ways of capturing feedback

Forthcoming dates:

• TBC

Book onto the Evaluating Public Engagement session (search course code: RD-PE-004)

Engaging with schools and family audiences can be can be rewarding and inspiring for you and your audiences. This session will introduce you to key considerations to bear in mind when designing and delivering engagement activities with these audiences.  By the end of the session you will:

• Understand how to adapt and tailor your activities for different groups of young people in different contexts
• Understand the challenges and opportunities that come from working with schools and family audiences, and how to plan to ensure your activity is successful
• Have an awareness of the support inside and outside of the university to promote best practice in working with schools and families

Forthcoming dates:

• TBC

Book onto the Public Engagement with Schools and Families session