Membership

Chair: Mark Hinton, Foundation Fellow (Centre for Lifelong Learning)

Co-Chair: Gioia Panzarella (Global Sustainable Development)

WIE Team Link: Charlotte Pearce and Naomi Kay (and Lisa Drummond for WIHEA)

Members: Alex Baker, Bryan Brazeau, Claire Rocks, Felicity Boardman, Holly Heshmati, Jonty Leese, Katy Angliss, Kevin Moffat, Lory Barile, Martha McGill, Nicholas Jackson, Negar Riazifar, Paul Grigsby, Rebecca Morris, Saba Alhagagi, Scott Habershon, Umme Rezowana, Yu-Ting Lai, Zhiyan Guo.

Vision 23-24

We are committed to developing recommendations and guidance as well as sharing experiences and good practices in the field of the Pedagogy of Public Engagement across departments at Warwick. We value the integration of public engagement in both undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) curricula to encourage students to apply their knowledge beyond the classroom. Our activities focus on supporting colleagues interested in developing teaching materials, creating new or revised modules, and initiating teaching approaches that incorporate public and community engagement. We are also interested in the disciplinary nature of some of the work on public engagement pedagogies and reflect on the overlaps that may exist between different areas.

Agreed Common Goals

1.Facilitate knowledge exchange in the field of the Pedagogy of Public and Community Engagement among staff members at Warwick

2.Provide extra knowledge and clarity for people new to PE pedagogy

3.Make the most of the experience in the group to share good practices

4.Facilitate the maintenance of repositories documenting public engagement features in modules across the university

Embedding Public Engagement in the HE Classroom. A co-creation workshop (at the WIE Conference 2024 (see full programme https://warwick.ac.uk/wie/getinvolved/wienetwork/conference-2024/programme/)

This co-creation workshop is led by members of the WIE/WIHEA Pedagogies of Public and Community Engagement Learning Circle; it aims to contribute to the objectives we set for 23-24 by producing resources for the Warwick teaching and learning community. These resources will serve to encourage the integration of Public Engagement activities into our teaching practices. In the workshop we will develop principles and strategies for pedagogies of public engagement collaboratively, by focusing specifically on teaching activities designed to embed public engagement in teaching practices. Members of the Learning Circle will facilitate discussions among attendees and gather initial materials to create a working document to be disseminated through WIE/WIHEA channels. Learning circle members who currently incorporate public engagement activities into their teaching will offer starting points for discussion by sharing their practices and providing examples.

Achievements January - July 2021

The group have met twice and begun to compile a spreadsheet documenting where public engagement features in modules across the university. In time we hope this will become a valuable resource which can enable students to be better informed about where they have the options to take part in engagement as part of their degree, as well as showing staff where local expertise in this area sits.

We have also formed a sub working group who worked with the WIE team to produce materials for the APP TELink opens in a new window (a part time, practice-based programme, successful completion of which awards Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy) course running in 2021/22. These materials will introduce staff to the concept of including engagement as part of their teaching, and the enormous benefits this can have for students.

Ambitions into 2022

We intend to continue to catalogue modules featuring public engagement, and work on a process for including this in the module approval process. As we gather these examples we will also do more to examine in detail those we've already discovered, and begin to understand what we can learn from them and how it can be effectively shared.

Work is also underway to consider several alternative pedagogical approaches which might be of interest for those teaching engagement.

Finally we will be working to produce resources for the WIE Skills Festival which can support those looking to embed public engagement into their teaching.