Public Awareness of Research Infrastructures

Partnerships for engagement – maximising resources, maximising results

18 Jun 2015, 16:35

10m

Eridanus Auditorium

Public engagement with large scale facilities Parallel Session 1

Speakers

Mrs Isabelle Boscaro-Clarke (Head of Communications and Public Engagement)Ms Laura Holland (Diamond Light Source)

Description

Diamond Light Source hosts a large and growing public engagement programme, welcoming over 5,000 visitors from the public and education each year. In order to continue to innovate and reach new audiences, we have formed strategic partnerships to deliver strong and successful events in education to key audiences. This session will profile three key partnership events – our Science in Your Future event, aimed at encouraging girls to consider further study in physical science subjects, Engineering Your Future, which promotes a range of Engineering disciplines, both delivered with STFC, and our A-level Biology day, delivered in partnership with the Research Complex at Harwell, and the Membrane Protein Laboratory (Imperial College London). We propose to invite scientists from our partner organisations to contribute to the session to discuss their view on what makes a successful partnership. We will discuss the benefits and risks of such partnership events, and will share our key lessons learned from these programmes.

Presentation materials

Slides

Holland_DIAMOND.pdf