Wild Citizens!
Enabling children to become active environmental citizens - a co-creative partnership project with Kanes Hill School
We are building a bank of public & community engagement case studies - based on the exciting work of our Development (seed) Funding projects.
Explore the links below to find out how the project teams got on. We hope that these stories will inspire and spark ideas, with insights into what works and what can be challenging across different engagement contexts and approaches.
University staff and students can find additional information on our intranet.
Dark Energy Pilot Project
Engaging home-educated children and their parents with Dark Energy research.
A Celebration of Mary Wollstonecraft
How a celebratory event was used to bring academics, activists and enthusiasts together in collaborative dialogue around the legacy of Wollstsonecraft.
Re-making Maps of the Mind
A collaborative engagement partnership exploring research into ‘place’, ‘journeying’ and the relationship between the medieval and modern.
Getting #handson with innovation in prosthetics
Creating and piloting engagement activities to help raise awareness of the on-going prosthetic research at the University of Southampton.
Engaging with parents of the future
Exploring the ways young people think about genetic screening - using critical thinking and ethical debate - to inform on-going research into responsible implementation of couple-based genetic screening.
Idea Jamming with Teenagers
Engaging with young people to work with game designers on the design and functionality of a new smartphone game to help teenagers exercise and eat healthily.
Engaging with Proteins
Engaging adults and children to explore the nature and function of proteins within the human body, through co-creation of embroidered panels to make a communal art work.
Surge Watch
Engaging the local (Solent area) community to stimulate interest and debate about coastal flooding and sea level rise, crowd-sourcing local knowledge to develop the evidence base for further research.
ACoRNS
Co-constructing an innovative research-practice partnership between University researchers and autism community partners.
Life at the Cutting Edge
Engaging the public to answer a central question within human origins research: how can archaeologists recognise skill and expertise within early pre-history?
The Voyage Out
Collaborative engagement using primary source material to illustrate the experiences of passengers on board East India Company ships - with the British Library.
The Breastfeeding Dilemma
Exploring philosophical issues in the way we talk and think about infant feeding choices - with academics, policy-makers, medical professionals, parental support organisations and mothers.
Shared Vision
A collaborative project to research local community use of underused open spaces and increase local appreciation and ownership.