Engagement and Participatory Practice

An IATL interdisciplinary module

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Module Code

IL927-15
IL927-20

Module Convenor

Professor Jonathan Hickman-Heron

Jonathan.Heron@warwick.ac.uk

When/Where

Spring
Wednesday 9.00 - 11.00 am
R0.04 (Ramphal)

Assessment

Project Proposal (20%)
Student-Devised Project (80%)

What is the module about?

Who are you going to engage? How would you engage people? Where would you engage them?

This module will develop students' engagement skills for participatory practice across disciplines, focusing on presentation skills, project management and participatory research methods. There will be three units, featuring practical workshops, guest tutors from across the university and guest speakers from the fields of science, culture and sport. This unique and innovative module will help your shape your ideas to engage audiences across, beyond and outside of the university, featuring contributions from Warwick Arts Centre, Warwick Institute of Engagement and Warwick Sport. You will present your original ideas to new audiences and learn how to devise your own assessment in a supportive, creative, and reflective learning environment.

What will the module cover?

Introduction to engagement as a participatory practice

This first workshop will combine practical group activities with theorised content on the relationships between institutions, publics, and communities by considering engagement and participation as a 'social turn' in higher education research and practice globally.

Unit A:'Where to engage?' Public and community contexts

This introductory unit will challenge students to think about their learning and research as a social and participatory practice, with guidance from academic colleagues.

Introduction to Public Engagement (Warwick Institute of Engagement)
Introduction to Community Engagement
Engagement with/through the Sciences

Unit B: 'How to engage?' Engagement across the sectors

This unit applies the engagement/participation principles from the first unit to a series of practical contexts, from online communities to cultural strategies in the region.

Digital and online engagement (self-directed; tasks assigned on Moodle by Module Convenor)
Arts and cultural engagement (Guest speaker from Warwick Arts Centre and/or external practitioner)
Sport, fitness and health engagement (Guest speaker from Warwick Sport and/or visiting speaker)

Unit C: 'Who to engage?' Your engagement practice.

This unit will transfer the learning from the first two units to the student vision for assessed practice, using the IATL module of the SDA and applying it to their engagement practice. Students will be able to incorporate their learning across the sciences, social sciences and the arts to engage different audiences.

What are the aims of the module?

To develop students' engagement skills for participatory practice across disciplines.
To disseminate knowledge in co-creation, participatory research, public and community engagement.
To teach students how to devise their own practice in community-based, public and digital environments.
To facilitate holistic 'transdisciplinary' methods via practical and interactive learning.
To equip students with critical sense of the basis and limits of their own discipline, and its place within the universe of knowledge.

How will I be assessed?

1) Student-devised assessment proposal/abstract (20%)

A detailed plan and/or conceptual overview submitted as SDA Proposal document (student determines format).

- 15 CATS: 375 words

- 20 CATS: 500 words

2) Student-devised assessment project/portfolio (80%)

This is an interdisciplinary research project, demonstrated through a negotiated format. This will be the final piece of assessed work submitted by the student. The SDA process requires each student to produce an ethical statement (and application, if necessary).

- 15 CATS: 3,000 words or equivalent

- 20 CATS: 4,000 words or equivalent

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What skills will I develop?

Engagement and presentation skills
Project management
Online engagement
Co-production and collaboration

Participatory research methods

Identification of transdisciplinary issues.

Learning Outcomes

See module catalogue [link to follow]

How to apply

Complete our online form to request your place.

Once IATL have confirmed you have been allocated a place, follow your home department's procedure to register.

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Find out how this module relates to IATL strategy

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