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

Helen Featherstone

doi:10.4337/9781035337439.00007

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

Helen Featherstone

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	How to Scale Engagement and Impact in Universities
Editors	Syahirah Abdul-Rahman, Tim Vorley, Lauren Tuckerman, Nick Wilton
Place of Publication	Cheltenham, U. K.
Publisher	Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Chapter	2
Pages	10-19
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781035337439
ISBN (Print)	9781035337422
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035337439.00007
Publication status	Published - 17 Jul 2025

Keywords

Complex organisations
Culture change
Project structures
Public Engagement with Research

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Economics,Econometrics and Finance
General Business,Management and Accounting
General Social Sciences

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Doing public engagement: exploring how to support and scale engagement and impact through better strategy and practice within HEIs. / Featherstone, Helen.
How to Scale Engagement and Impact in Universities. ed. / Syahirah Abdul-Rahman; Tim Vorley; Lauren Tuckerman; Nick Wilton. Cheltenham, U. K.: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2025. p. 10-19.

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