Skills of Engagement
Skills of Engagement
Steering Group
- Anthony Avery
- Saskia Bakker
- Raquel Nunes,
- Evelin Sanderson-Nichols,
- Helena Verrill
- Kerry Baker
Purpose
The Skills of Engagement Learning Circle is focused on raising the standard of engagement practice both within the University of Warwick and with external partners. By providing facilities, peer-to-peer training, and opportunities to share expertise, the circle aims to empower individuals to engage with content in a meaningful and sustainable way, building long-term capacity rather than short-term activity.
Our work so far
Since we set up in the Spring of 2021 we’ve made huge progress as a Learning Circle. We meet on a regular basis and have a shared sense of purpose focussing on tangible projects to help focus our work. We led on ensuring clear delineation of responsibility between ourselves and other learning circles where overlaps were leading to potential repetition and have supported colleagues to develop their engagement skills - feeding into the review of WIE training and production of materials for the WIE Skills FestivalLink opens in a new window.
We’ve also supported the STEM Grand Challenge Learning Circle contributing ideas into how the future of engagement should be accounted for in the production of new campus engagement spaces.
Finally we helped reimagined the purpose and direction of the WIE Networking Conference (formerly Public Engagement Network Conference) and we ran an innovative full hybrid event supported by multiple members of the Learning Circle