Public Engagement Masterclasses

Skills focussed workshops led by experts

Upcoming sessions

Getting Social

Wednesday 3 December, 9:30am-12:30pm - Online

Getting your work on social media may be easy - but making it popular is more challenging. This workshop takes you through the main social media channels and looks at how to create share-worthy content messages. Discover how to use social media to foster meaningful interactions and share your work with as many people as possible. Form tweets to live streams this interactive session is packed with ideas of how to maximise your use of social media as a researcher.

Evaluating Public Engagement: One-Day Workshop

Monday 15 December, 10am-3:30pm - Faculty of Arts Building

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.

Hands on Engagement

Tuesday 16 December 2025, Oculus, 9:30am-12:30pm

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.

Impact through engagement

Thursday 12 February, Online 9:30am - 12:30pm

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.

Evaluation Masterclass Series

Please book for each session separately. You do not have to attend all sessions.

Introduction to Evaluation Strategy, Methods and Practice

Wednesday 6 May, 1:15-2:45pm - Ramphal

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.

Practical Evaluation Tools and Resources

Wednesday 20 May, 1:15-2:45pm - Ramphal

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.

Understanding and Presenting Data

Wednesday 3 June, 1:15-2:45pm - Ramphal

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.

Book onto our Masterclasses

If you have already registered are no longer able to attend please use the link in your booking confirmation to cancel your place at least 7 days in advance. Last minute cancellations and no shows lead to wasted places that could have been used by someone else. Please see our cancellation policy for details.