Join us for the next SciComm Series on Developing Engagement Activities, which will double as support for a Great Exhibition Road Festival application. This will take place on Thursday 30th July from 09:30-12:00 in G23/24 at the MSRH with Hana Ayoob, a public engagement specialist. Every year the ICB CDT enters the Great Exhibition Road Festival with an application process that starts very early on! It鈥檚 a great opportunity to get your ideas together at this stage and have a lot of support doing so.
In this session, public engagement specialist Hana Ayoob will take you through the process of brainstorming ideas for your own research-related engagement activities, choosing one idea to work on and creating a prototype of your activity. Along the way, she will share case studies of different outreach activities and talk about some of the practical considerations we need to keep in mind when developing new activities.
Hana听Ayoob听is a science communicator and illustrator with over a decade of experience in STEM Engagement including producing for some of the largest science festivals in the country, coordinating patient involvement on a clinical trial, developing creative engagement activities and creating illustrations for engagement projects.
This session provides structure and space for participants to generate ideas for engagement听activities by harnessing their interests and experiences outside of their work, before developing听one activity further.
- A recap on basic public engagement and activity formats
- Working through a听series听of prompts about your research and interests
- An introduction to rapid prototyping and its benefits
- Rapidly prototyping one activity idea
- Presenting prototypes to each other and discussing them
- Setting future goals for the activity