Professor Sophie Staniszewska, WIE Foundation Fellow, is the guest editor for a special edition of the International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care. This edition features 24 papers which explore examples from around the world of what people are doing to involve patients. Papers are free access for 3 months to ensure the patient community can read them too.

In the first Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF) report we were delighted that Warwick placed in the top 10% of English higher education institutes for “Public and community engagement”, and the top 20% for “Working with business.”

On Tuesday evening we (WIE!) ran the latest online Science on the Hill public event 'New Scientists: New Research' with the SOTH team from WMS, SLS and QBP. Once again we used the Streamyard online studio which produced the livestream on our Warwick Youtube channel. Hosted by our very own Honorary Fellow Professor Kevin Moffat, the speakers included Dr Erin Greaves from Warwick Medical School and Dr Ellie Jameson and Emily Hill from the School of Life Sciences.

We caught up with Professor Michael Scott, Director of the new Warwick Institute of Engagement, to celebrate his recent Classical Association award win and get some inspiration on delivering meaningful public engagement. For Michael, receiving the award has been a privilege and an honour, and also an important sign of how much the Classics community values communication and dialogue with the wider world.

Nick Barker, one of our Fellows and a truly inspiring individual, shares his experiences of working in a primary school serving an area of severe social deprivation in this powerful piece written for the Higher Education Policy Institute.

"What I wish for is that people with the responsibility of deciding the shape and form of our education system might, somehow, be able to see into the lives of children who grow up in one of the many communities such as the one where I work. That their two worlds could somehow, regularly, combine."