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engage 2010Finding Funding
Philip Newton, RCUK and NERC
Philippa Bayley, Centre for Public Engagement
Andrew Wray, Research Enterprise Development
Ben Griffiths, Campaigns and Alumni Relations
engage 2010
“Engagement activities work best when integrated into research and teaching. It makes more sense of staff time because it’s feeding into a bigger picture
and you’re learning at the same time.”
Academic, Department of Classics and Ancient History
What are your funding challenges?
Project construction
• Objectives - SMART
• Outcomes and outputs
• Audiences
• Project delivery
• Measures of success /
evaluation
• Sustainability / the future
• Match to funder
Streams of funding
4 major ways to fund public engagement:
1. Through dedicated public engagement funding streams
2. As part of research grants from the Research Councils, or other research funders
3. Through grants from trusts and foundations
4. Through partnerships, and other collaborative working
Also: Corporate sponsorship, commercial models
Dedicated public engagement funding
• Small pots of money
• Largely science-focussed e.g. EPSRC, STFC, BBSRC, National Science and Engineering Week
• Understand ‘culture’ of university engagement
• Through Research Councils - uncertain future
• Other funders - Wellcome Trust, professional societies/academies e.g. Royal Society, Institute of Physics, Royal Academy of Engineering
Research grants
• Contribution to research impact - societal and cultural
• Describe in ‘Pathways to Impact’ and ‘Impact Summaries’
• Legitimate to cost for PE activities
• Flexible
• Long-term support and sustainable
• Challenging funding environment
• Specialist funding streams - e.g Knowledge Exchange
Trusts and foundations
• Philanthropic organisations
Societal benefit
• Outcomes-focussed
• Huge range - size and scope
• Match projects to funders
Partnership working
• In-kind contributions - time, expertise, space,
publicity, audiences• Contributing to ongoing programmes of events• Increasing relevance• Increasing success• Building good relationships outside the University• Sharing costs• Sharing the organisational burden
• Engagers Digest - fortnightly funding, training and engagement opportunities• www.bristol.ac.uk/public-engagement