| EPSRC Reference: |
EP/R019649/1 |
| Title: |
Birkbeck Researchers' Engagement Development (BRED) |
| Principal Investigator: |
Zukas, Professor M |
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| Department: |
Psychosocial Studies |
| Organisation: |
Birkbeck College |
| Scheme: |
RCUK PER Catalysts |
| Starts: |
01 October 2017 |
Ends: |
30 September 2019 |
Value (£): |
95,674
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08 Sep 2017
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SEE-PER Panel
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Announced
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Summary on Grant Application Form |
The College's vision for Birkbeck Public Engagement with Research (PER) is to build on our founding principles of reaching non-traditional learners and providing access to knowledge for all. Birkbeck is a place where we connect, collaborate, challenge received wisdom and build on the expertise of life and work, as well as official, knowledges. We see our public engagement as sitting within the heart of our values, as a core part of research, enabling us to interact with a wide and diverse range of people for the betterment of our research and our researchers. In order to realize the full potential of our vision for public engagement, the College requires a step change in strategic activity focusing mainly on building sustained infrastructure, with a secondary focus on reward and recognition.
The Birkbeck Researchers' Engagement Development project (BRED) will enable Birkbeck to drive culture change. It will do so by building on the Birkbeck Strategy and Plan for Public Engagement, and by strengthening the existing team, as well as adopting a number of new initiatives. We will appoint additional expertise in the form of a PER Evaluation Officer and a PER Coordinator.
The PER Evaluation Officer will assist Birkbeck in the development of a systematic approach to evaluating PER activities - both at the level of the institutional strategy and at the level of individual research projects - and is therefore essential in a PER team. Systematic evaluation will ensure quality and enable the College to maximise its efforts in PER.
The establishment of a PER Coordinator will enable Birkbeck to organize systematic training programmes for all researchers at Birkbeck; it will also enable Birkbeck to develop and manage a number of schemes to recognize and reward staff engaged in PER, including the PER Awards and PER Seed Funding. In addition seed funding and PER awards will enable the College to demonstrate what we believe good quality engagement to be.
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http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ |