Creating Real-World Impact: Public Engagement and Research Support
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Creating Real-World Impact: Public Engagement and Research Support
Fri, 04/04/2025 - 14:30 to 15:00
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Speaker:
Camilla Irvine-Fortescue
Synopsis:
Engagement and impact are vital for university research as they ensure findings are relevant to societal challenges and facilitate collaboration with stakeholders, enhancing research outcomes and practical applications. Within research proposals it has become increasingly important that you demonstrate how your research will have an impact in the world outside academia, and the engagement steps that you will take to realise that impact. We will share how the Research Engagement Directorate (RED) can support researchers to embed public engagement and impact in their research proposals and resulting projects, engaging with diverse stakeholders and ensuring you can evidence your impact.
Biography:
Camilla is the Responsible Impact Specialist at Heriot-Watt University, working in the Public Engagement Team to support researchers to embed public engagement activities within their research. She supports researchers across a variety of fields - ranging from AI and Robotics to Quantum Technology. Her work includes an engagement programme of deliberative dialogue and community engagement across West Lothian. She runs the monthly HW Engage Network, which features engagement guests each month and supports researchers in expanding their public engagement practice. She has a creative background, previously working in the arts sector and has been building collaborations with researchers and artists over the past three years to further creative and informal science learning.