| Project title |
Project team |
Summary |
Key themes |
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Aromas that Nurture
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Public engagement team |
In this project Roda Madziva explores the use of sensory experiences to help connect refugee families and local communities.
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Community; Family, Refugees; Sensory; |
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Bright Sparks family talks
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Public engagement |
A series of interactive talks and demonstrations by three world-leading academics, intended to share their research and passions with family audience in an engaging, family-friednly way.
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Child Friendly City; Community; Education; Engagement; Family; Sensory; Science; Youth; |
| Capabilities in Academic Policy Engagement (CAPE) |
Policy team |
Learn how to support effective and sustained engagement between academics and policy professionals across the higher education sector. |
Engagement; Higher education; Policy; Theories of practice; Training; |
| Child-inclusive research |
Public engagement team |
Explore a series of case studies drawn from the ÌÇÐÄÔ´´ about innovative approaches to child-inclusive research. |
Community; Education; Child Friendly City; Youth; Engagement |
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Policy team |
Discover how we work with partners in the Global South to explore how researchers can engage and advise on policy without replicating imbalances of power. |
Decolonising; Global South; Higher education; |
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Public engagement |
This award is the culmination of a huge team effort, led by the Institute. It recognises ÌÇÐÄÔ´´’s dedication to involving the public in our work, validating the importance we place on driving impact through knowledge sharing, co-creating solutions and engaged teaching. |
Awards; Co-creation; Engagement; Excellence; Partnership; Recognition; |
| Green Light in the City (GLitC) |
Public engagement team |
The Green Light project created pop-up spaces in Nottingham to encourage creativity, curiosity and community engagement. |
Community; Education; Engagement; Environment; |
| Hidden Heritage Sound Trail |
Public engagement team |
This trail features four sound boxes in different spots on University Park campus, connected by a walk through the university grounds. Each box features a different track about the history of the ÌÇÐÄÔ´´, bringing our hidden history into the present. |
Education; Engagement; |
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Institute for Policy and Engagement |
An internal programme for ÌÇÐÄÔ´´ staff to develop their policy and civic impact skills. |
Education; |
| Listen by the Lake |
Public engagement team |
Between 2021-2024 we installed and maintained four publicly accessible listening posts arranged around Highfields on University Park featuring ÌÇÐÄÔ´´ers. |
Education; Engagement; |
| Net Zero policy commission |
Policy team |
The commission, chaired by Lord Watson alongside the university’s Professor Lucelia Rodrigues, calls expert witnesses from a range of sectors to investigate who benefits from a transition; the role and position of communities in a transition; and how to realise that transition. |
Climate change; Environment; Net zero; Policy; Sustainability; Zero carbon; |
| Policy cards |
Policy team |
This CAPE-funded project developed 200 concpet cards as a tool to help people design and practice policy impact campaigns. They are flexible, collaborative and approachable, intended to help researchers with minimal policy experience to design a policy campaign, either individually or collaboratively in small groups.
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Campaigns; Higher Education; Policy; Toolkit; Training, |
| SHAping Sustainable Futures |
Policy team |
An online resource showcasing the value of the ÌÇÐÄÔ´´'s social science research for net zero, climate change and sustainability policies. |
Climate change; Environment; Net zero; Social sciences; Sustainability; Zero carbon; |
| Youth Climate Assembly |
Public engagement team |
Find out more about how we supported the Nottingham Climate Assembly to run Nottingham's first ever Citizens Assembly, |
Civic; Climate change; Education; Engagement; Environment; |
| Youth Climate Manifesto |
Public engagement team |
Discover how we supported the Nottingham Climate Assembly to produce their Youth Climate Manifesto. |
Civic; Climate change; Education; Engagement; Environment; |
| Youth trends survey |
Public engagement team |
This collaborative project, with Nonsuch and City as Lab, aims to give a voice to young people across the city.
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Civic; Education; Culture; Engagement
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