The recent Somerscience Festival, hosted at Bath and West Showground over the May bank holiday, invited researchers and industry experts to celebrate the value of STEM in the South West, with this year’s event featuring teams from the University of Exeter’s Department of Biosciences and Living Systems Institute.
Month: May 2026
Community Consultation for the Research Design of Practice-based, Participatory Action Research PhD Project
Yudi Wu, PhD student in the Department of Communications, Drama and Film gives an insight into their experience engaging with the public as part of their research project, establishing relationships with participants and navigating these to ensure those who contribute to a research project can be most effectively supported throughout.
Engage Summit 2026: Looking to the Future of Public Engagement
Engage is the biannual conference hosted by the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement. This year, the conference was attended by our Engaged Research Manager, Dr Dreolin Fleischer, and Catherine Hurcombe, Regional Engagement Assistant, to explore the changing landscape of engaged research, and how now more than ever, co-production and engagement with new audiences is vital.
Health and Wellbeing Research: Matchmaking for VCSE and Academic Partners
In partnership with Devon Community Foundation, the University recently hosted a researcher-voluntary sector ‘matchmaking’ event. This half-day event, funded by the Devon Research Engagement Network, under the umbrella of the Torbay, Plymouth and Devon VCSE Assembly, invited those with an interest in applied health and wellbeing research to connect, and spark ideas for collaboration.