Everyday Excellence: Engagement and Impact
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Session leaders
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| Prof Ian Tuersley (Warwick Manufacturing Group) | Prof Sarah Richardson (History) |
Session aimed at
Those interested in learning how to develop their impact and engagement activities and learn more about Warwick Institute for Engagement and anyone interested in using such activities for promotion, recognition and reward purposes.
Session summary
Impact, engagement and outreach activities happen every day. They do not have to be high profile organised events but could be chance encounters, conversations or knowledge sharing. Very often they are closely associated with teaching and learning. This workshop will introduce the Learning Circle on Promotion & Impact, Outreach and Engagement which is part of the new Warwick Institute of Engagement. The Learning Circle is led by Ian and Sarah who are both also founder members of the WIHEA Learning Circle on Teaching Reward and Recognition. The bulk of the session will be sharing examples of impact and engagement activities and how these may be developed to support cases for promotion, reward and recognition. The workshop will also address the opportunities and challenges of impact, outreach and engagement activities for those in different roles.
Participants are asked to bring 3-5 examples of engagement and/or impact activity to discuss in the workshop. This would be most useful in the form of brief, informal notes, to facilitate discussion activities. Note: ‘engagement and impact’ is defined in its widest possible sense and may include (but is certainly not limited to) work with schools, widening participation, talks and events for the wider community, business/enterprise activities, work with charities, mentoring, participation with community organisations, ‘knowledge exchange’, press and media work. The examples may be your own or your colleagues.
Sessions aims
- To disseminate the how everyday excellence in teaching and learning can interact with and support impact and engagement opportunities.
- To enable workshop participants to identify such opportunities and examples in their own, current practice.
- To collate examples of good practice from workshop participants – incorporating diversity in colleagues’ roles and status level.
Session structure
- 10 minutes of presentation by SR/IT on work ongoing with WIE, overall project aims in that LC and how this might impact on workshop participants.
- 30 minutes in break out rooms (led by SR/IT) to:
- Discuss examples participants have brought.
- Highlight opportunities for engagement/impact activity.
- Establish how these activities can be used as part of professional recognition processes.
- 5 minutes summary from break-out room leads.