Playing its part in the communities that it serves, public engagement is a crucial strand of the university’s commitment to sustainability.
Public engagement is all about the activities that establish and enhance the university’s relationship with the wider public. These relationships are underpinned by our core beliefs in supporting sustainable communities, social well-being and enterprise, knowledge generation and heritage and cultural celebration.
Public engagement activities can be broadly seen as:
- Community engagement which might include volunteering and collaborative projects with not-for-profit organisations
- Public dissemination of knowledge such as public lectures and activities at festivals and museums
- Social enterprise, using knowledge and skills for social benefit
- Engaged research-related activities, which are projects designed for public benefit, two-way partnerships or collaborative work with community groups or where funding has been raised in partnership with charity or voluntary organisations
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The university has well-established expertise in public engagement at international, national, regional and local levels. Community and social engagement includes activity with a wide-spectrum of external groups and individuals, in schools, community and voluntary organisations, in local government and in businesses.
Active participation in diverse and innovative ways enables the university to inform and include, educate and engage within community settings as well as on campus.
A small selection of current activities are featured in the left-hand side menu.