Understand how to engage audiences beyond LSE with your work and the benefits of doing so.

This event will bring together external experts on Public Engagement and internal ‘best practice projects’ to help you understand who your ‘public’ is or could be, and how to get started with a successful Public Engagement project.

It will be an opportunity for academics to develop new projects together with new types of public(s). The event will also provide an opportunity to connect, collaborate and share experiences with other academics and professional support staff from LSE, other UK HEIs and members of the European ACCOMPLISSH project. 

Programme

Location: 32L.LG.04, lower ground floor, 32 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

10:00    Registration

10:15    Opening address by Professor Mary Morgan (LSE)

10:25    Public Engagement Strategies by Paul Manners (NCCPE)

10:45    Panel discussion: Who are ‘the public’ and how can we reach them?

Panel members: Laura Hood (The Conversation), Dr Steve Cross (Bright Club and Science Showoff), Suzanne Bardgett (Imperial War Museums) and Rachel Holmes (Author and former Head of Spoken Word at South Bank Centre).

12:00    Lunch

13:00    Breakout Sessions: Lessons from successful LSE Public Engagement projects

Elina Ribakova (Migration Matters), Anne Power (Housing Plus), Amanda Gore(Timeless) and Don Slater (Configuring Light)
These sessions will take place in rooms 32L.G.10, 32L.G.11, 32L.G.12 and 32L.G.13.

 The event is being organised by the LSE Research Division and Communications Division.