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Get Involved - Staff

Get Involved

Opportunities open to staff

WIE Personal Development Fund

Staff and students can apply for funds to put towards conference fees, course fees, or travel and subsistence related to developing their public engagement skills.

Funding and Research Grant Support

If you're looking for funding for your own projects, or you intend to put public engagement plans into a Research Grant your writing and want advice and support from the team or our panel of expert peer reviewers WIE can help you.

Recognising Excellence in Engagement

The Warwick Awards for Public and Community Engagement recognise the efforts of staff and students across Warwick have put into engagement activity.

We're also supporting Academic members of staff to be recognised for their engagement work through the annual promotions process.

Embedding Engagement into your Teaching

We are strong supporters of getting our students involved in public engagement. Explore support on offer for make your engagement work part of your teaching practice.

You can also apply for a grant of up to £5,000 to support you to develop modules featuring engagement through our Module Development Fund.

Online resources

Explore online guides in our Skills Festival. Everything from audience mapping, engagement techniques, evaluation and more is covered.

Training sessions

We regularly run training and bring in external experts to deliver sessions to support you to build you skills.

WIE Events Programme

Explore our events programme and the different opportunities we run that you can use as a platform to talk about your work.

The Flame of Friendship

In the run up to the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic games, 62 Coventry schools will be participating in a torch relay. Find out how you can support the Flame of Friendship project between February and July by joining a relay leg, creating content related to your research/teaching for an activity book, or supporting the finale parade event on 8th July.

WIE Mentoring Scheme

For one on one ongoing support to develop and share your engagement practice.

WIE Networking Cafes

A monthly chance to meet with colleagues over lunch/ cake to talk about public engagement.

Supervising Public Engagement URSS

Find students to help with projects you want to see happen, and get advice and support on how you can best support students you're supervising for URSS with the public engagement side of their project.