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Join us for a full-day interactive workshop designed to equip you with the knowledge, tools, and confidence to evaluate your public engagement activities effectively. This hands-on session will guide you through the strategic, practical, and analytical aspects of evaluation, combining the content of our previous seminar series into a cohesive learning experience.

Discover how to create engagement that leads to long lasting and meaningful impact. Through this interactive workshop you will explore the research impact landscape discovering how to create changes and benefits beyond the academic. From planning engagement projects to working with communities this session will show you how to create high quality projects tailored to your subject and skills.

Whether you are new to engagement or looking to get new perspectives on what you can do to improve this workshop is packed with tips, tricks and strategies for making the most of your engagement.

This session will explore the practical elements of planning accessible, inclusive, and engaging experiences for the public, and will guide you through the essentials of event design.

This is an external session presented by Dr Jamie Gallagher, an award-winning communicator and engagement professional with ten years’ experience in the delivery and evaluation of quality engagement projects. It is organised by C-DICE, and is open to UK research staff & PhD students.

This session will explore how TikTok and short-form video can be powerful tools to share research, grow audiences, and amplify ideas. By the end, you'll have practical skills to create impactful videos that connect with wider audiences. Total beginners welcome.

This is an external session presented by Dr Jamie Gallagher, an award-winning communicator and engagement professional with ten years’ experience in the delivery and evaluation of quality engagement projects. It is organised by C-DICE, and is open to UK research staff and PhD students.

How do you capture evaluation data? What should you ask? How do you use it for reporting? This session is designed to help you work confidently with evaluation data and turn it into powerful stories of impact. By the end, you'll have practical strategies to capture, process, and report evaluation data that showcases the real impact of your projects.

This is an external session presented by Dr Jamie Gallagher, an award-winning communicator and engagement professional with ten years’ experience in the delivery and evaluation of quality engagement projects. It is organised by C-DICE, and is open to UK research staff and PhD students.

The Collaboration and Communities Learning Circle of Warwick Institute of Engagement are putting together plans for the 4^th edition of COLAB, an annual workshop that brings together Warwick staff and students and their key collaborators for a series of conversations about what collaboration can achieve and to enable networking and future collaborations to grow.

COLAB 4.0 focuses on the transformative role Warwick’s education can play when it works to empower people outside the organisation to change their communities and places for the better. It explores innovative ways in which Warwick’s staff (and students) collaborate with stakeholders outside the academy to exchange skills and knowledge.

Through this session we will highlight examples of teaching and knowledge exchange, and what those examples demonstrate about the ways Warwick can empower external people and organisations, and how those collaborations can (or could) create space for external knowledge and lived experience to shape teaching and learning at Warwick.

The session will be of interest to staff, students and community organisations with an interest in collaborative forms of public engagement and knowledge exchange.

This session is designed to help you deliver presentations that truly stand out. Give the most interesting, memorable and engaging talks possible. Forget all the rules you thought you knew about presenting and discover the techniques helping thousands of nervous speakers to find their comfort in the presentation space.

This is a an external session presented by Dr Jamie Gallagher, an award-winning communicator and engagement professional with ten years’ experience in the delivery and evaluation of quality engagement projects. It is organised by C-DICE, and is open to UK research staff and PhD students.

Join us for our fourth annual conference! The day is going to be a fascinating exploration of public engagement with a mix of practical sessions, opportunities to listen and learn, and spaces for you to share your thoughts and perspectives. The conference is free to attend and open to all Warwick staff and students, as well as all Members of WIE. Community members and University partners with an interest in public engagement are also very welcome to join us, as well as those working in Public Engagement at other institutions, as long as they sign up for WIE Membership (this is free and can be done as part of your booking for the conference).

This year's theme is Impacts from engagement - exploring both REF Impact from public engagement work, but also impact beyond the REF, for example the effects of public engagement for our community partners, for students and regional partners. We are currently accepting session proposals. Select the button below to find out more and submit your idea.

This workshop will give you the tools to communicate the stories of your research through objects, in collaboration with galleries, libraries, archives and museums. Interactive exercises will suggest ways to unlock material literacy using close looking, creative responses, and display-making. Participants will also learn the practical essentials of object handling and how to navigate collections with confidence.

This workshop will guide you through the ways to create engaging hands on activities based on your research or your area of work. Through exercises and interaction participants will gain understanding of how to communicate more effectively whatever the setting. Ideal for groups or individuals working towards an event or looking for new ideas to share their work.

This is the first session in the Evaluation Masterclass series. You do not have to attend all of the sessions in this series.

This introductory session will introduce you to key ideas around evaluation practice, why we conduct evaluation, and how this can be beneficial to you. We will explore a model for thinking about public engagement activities strategically and set out what your individual measures of success are.

This training session will introduce you to the theory, history and practice of citizen science and scientific crowdsourcing. Then take you through the key practical questions to think about when planning and running a citizen science activity, using examples from real projects. The session will include a comfort break midway through.

This is the second session in the Evaluation Masterclass series. You do not have to attend all of the sessions.

This more practical session builds on the introductory ideas of session one, providing you with the tools to conduct effective and meaningful evaluation of your public engagement activities. We will explore resources available and how they can be best used to assess your measures of success.

This is the final session in the Evaluation Masterclass series. You do not have to attend all of the sessions.

This final session will explore the types of data you can yield from evaluation methods, and how you can best analyse this. We will explore key data analysis tools and how to draw insights from this data in order to answer questions about the success of your public engagement activity.

Podcasting can be a powerful tool to engage with difficult-to-reach audiences, expand professional networks, and become established as an authority in your field. In this training, you'll learn about the tools you need to create compelling podcasts about research, to engage with different audiences, and increase your overall impact. As well as discussing the creation of an engaging narrative, this session will also teach you all the practicalities of audio production you need to get started on your own.