Doing public engagement: exploring how to support and scale engagement and impact through better strategy and practice within HEIs

Helen Featherstone

Chapter 2 in How to Scale Engagement and Impact in Universities, 2025, pp 10-19 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Several policy initiatives have been designed to influence institutional commitments to, and practice of, public engagement with research. Using the University of Bath as a case study, we will explore how once such a policy initiative (the Public Engagement with Research [PER] Catalyst) has enabled the support, scale, and sustaining of public engagement with research. The chapter will unpack the starting conditions, how the PER Catalyst built on those foundations, how other policy initiatives have helped and hindered progress, how the institutional culture contributes to the development of a culture of public engagement, and the roles of the people at the centre of the work.

Keywords: Public Engagement with Research; Culture change; Complex organisations; Project structures (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035337422
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