Public Engagement Portfolio - Academic and Research Staff

Key details: Please discuss this programme and obtain approval from your manager before submitting your request.

Audience

  • Academic staff
  • Research staff

Programme information

OSDS and the Public Engagement Research (PER) Team have developed a portfolio of activities to ensure that researchers at all levels have the skills and knowledge to enable them to participate in PE successfully and be recognised for their endeavours. Please discuss this programme and obtain approval from your manager before submitting your request.

On completion of a range of PE development activities participants will be awarded a certificate of completion. The portfolio is mapped to Domain D of Vitae’s Research Development Framework – Engagement, Influence and Impact. Once your place on PEP is confirmed, search for activities in PDMS using you usual audience cohort in the drop-down menu.

Core

6 courses - you have to complete all of the following instances:

  • Delivery Session: taking part in delivering public engagement with an external audience - Academic & Research Staff
  • Evaluation of Public Engagement
  • Finding your (public engagement) voice
  • Practical public engagement
  • Project Management: an Introduction
    • Wednesday 29 May 2024
    (ILM)
  • Self-reflection Report: prompted by a questionnaire from the PER team - Academic & Research Staff

Optional

26 courses - you have to complete 6 of the following:

  • Animate your research
  • Build a research website in under three hours
  • Ease the Load - Feeling Good About Your Busy Life
  • Engaging with Public Policy
  • Explorathon Training: Festivals and Schools
  • Figures, images & visualising information
  • Funny research: Bright Club stand-up comedy workshop
  • Lunchtime Legends: Engaging with the Public - Schools and Public Engagement
  • Lunchtime Legends: Engaging with the Public - Schools, Outreach and Festivals
  • Lunchtime Legends: Engaging with the Public - Working with Broadcast Media
  • Lunchtime Legends: Leading a Research Group (ILM)
  • Making a Movie (ILM)
  • Managing people in research teams (ILM)
  • Managing Research Information: an introduction to impact, open access, Pure, data management (ILM)
  • Managing Research Information: impact in depth
  • Managing Research Information: Pure, hands-on training
  • Online Kintish Networking Courses - https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/osds/my-development/kintish/ - Academic & Research Staff (ILM)
  • Professional networking for researchers: strategy and engaging (ILM)
  • Public Engagement Toolbox Sessions: GDPR and Risk Assessments
  • Research Funding: An Introduction
  • Spectacular information and visualising data
  • Time Management: Strategies for Busy Teachers and Researchers
  • Visualise your Research: 1-to-1 consultation sessions
  • Visualise your Research: Showcase
  • Visualise your Research: Training session
  • Writing for a Public Audience

Programme organiser

OSDS
Email: osdscourses@st-andrews.ac.uk