Find out how community engagement activities might work for your research. This series of online community engagement workshops will bring together University of Birmingham colleagues and community partners to share their practices and perspectives. The events will cover a range of environmental and related themes, and colleagues across all disciplines around these themes are welcome to attend. The aim of the workshops is to build a Birmingham based Community of Practice for public engagement that builds two-way, equitable relationships to enhance research and provide better community engagement.
The workshops are possible thanks to the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funded ‘Engaging Environments’ project. Researchers at the Universities of Birmingham and Reading are creating a national community of practice to engage communities in environmental science, through story-telling and citizen science projects.
Issues such as energy, pollution, climate change and air quality and how these affect people and their lives are being addressed through the project. It forms part of NERC’s wider Engaging Environments programme and builds on earlier pilot projects, ENCOMPASS, based at Birmingham, and Opening up Science for All!, based at Reading
The project is led by Hilary Geoghegan, Erinma Ochu and Joyce Tenerge from the University of Reading and the Birmingham team includes Carl Stevenson developing a Birmingham based community of practice, Derren Cresswell, Community Organiser in Environmental science, and Alice Roberts, Professor of Public Engagement in Science.
To find out more contact Derren Cresswell d.j.cresswell@bham.ac.uk or Carl Stevenson c.t.stevenson@bham.ac.uk
Read a summary of the February 2021 event - Birmingham Engaging Environments Community of Practice