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The Dataset’s Dream: an art-science collaboration

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The Dataset’s Dream: an art-science collaboration

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The Dataset’s Dream emerged through a collaborative art-science project at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH) in 2022. Poet Thomas Sharp and Bryony Benge-Abbott spent the summer with scientists analysing the UK’s butterfly and moth dataset (18 million sightings from 110,000 volunteer recorders). Pondering our relationship to nature in a digitised world, The Dataset’s Dream considers what is lost and what is gained when we turn nature into data. The installation seeded poetic narrative and illuminated glass cocoon-caskets throughout ‘off the beaten track’ landscapes. Exploring the importance of both cataloguing the natural world and of touching it with our imaginations, the installation was full of sorrow and hope: “it felt like treading in an unseen frontier space,” said one visitor.

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Still from the project animation, by Boyle and Perks. 

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OCD and the Brain: co-producing an online toolkit

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OCD and the Brain: co-producing an online toolkit

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A reflection on the process of co-developing a toolkit as part of the OCD and the Brain project. This project has brought together people living with OCD, UCL researchers, OCD charities and facilitators to share experiences of OCD, discuss the brain’s role in OCD and to make the latest brain research on OCD more accessible and relevant.

People with lived experience of OCD have been at the heart of this project: they were central to the project design, collaborated with researchers in creative workshops to exchange ideas, and have been part of a team co-developing an engaging online toolkit throughout its development. Through the project, we have co-created a resource that we hope will be accessible and useful to the OCD community, as well as shaping future research in this area.

At this carnival stand, we will invite delegates to join a visual journey through the process of developing this toolkit; and will reflect on the process, what has worked well and key lessons learned. Join us to share your thoughts, reactions and related practice!

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From Fringe to Formal: The Development of Community Engaged Learning at the University of York

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From Fringe to Formal: The Development of Community Engaged Learning at the University of York

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Community Engaged Learning (CEL) is an impactful way of learning which delivers benefits to students and communities. It has been a feature of UK Higher Education for decades, but still feels in its infancy compared to practice in the USA or Australia. Sarah Rafferty and Kate Harper are CEL Managers at the University of York and collectively have 30 years of experience in co-producing community engaged activity for students. Using an interactive online timeline created in Tiki-Toki, they will guide participants through the University of York’s journey of embedding CEL in the curriculum. They will map developments since 2008 against the funding landscape, changing institutional priorities and developing ways to scale meaningful activities, evaluate effectively and build credibility with both community and academic partners.

Feel free to get in touch with us:

Sarah.rafferty@york.ac.uk

Kate.harper@york.ac.uk

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MetaMosaics®: joyful making, purposeful connecting  

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MetaMosaics®: joyful making, purposeful connecting  

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Jaimella Espley will share the story of how we unexpectedly created and developed MetaMosaics® a tactile technique that fosters creative thinking, supports active listening and helps diverse groups find common goals and purpose. The technique is currently being piloted with support from Wellcome’s Policy Lab’, which is experimenting with innovative tools and methods for policy development to bring different stakeholders into honest conversations for more inclusive policy development. In our workshops, instead of the usual round table, people are invited to build a mosaic together, selecting pieces that represent their stories and perspectives. The technique encourages people to share and listen to different perspectives while they collaborate towards a common goal. We’ll share our story of developing, trialling and evaluating the new technique – and our learnings along the way.

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Fair Funding: University Community Grants 

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Fair Funding: University Community Grants 

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We will present the five-year evaluation of the University of Edinburgh’s community grant scheme. This evaluation was published earlier this year. The evaluation looked at both the holistic impact of the scheme and the ways in which the scheme’s operations could be improved. Given Engage’s 2023 theme of cutting-edge practice- we will focus on how we used the evaluation to improve the scheme’s delivery- bringing it in line with the latest nationally-recognised principles of Fair Funding for the third sector in Scotland. Almost 200 community organisations in the City of Edinburgh- Fife- Lothians and Scottish Borders have received awards since the University’s scheme launched in 2017. Holding the floor/facilitating will be a (compensated) member of a community grantee organisation- Sarah Anderson (Senior Community Engagement Manager)- Anne Douglas- (Community Engagement Project Coordinator) and Stuart Tooley (Head of Public Affairs).

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Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence: Using activism, art and academic research to challenge social attitudes to sexual violence and inspire action

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Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence: Using activism, art and academic research to challenge social attitudes to sexual violence and inspire action

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The Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence is a Wellcome Trust-funded public engagement initiative between the SHaME Project at Birkbeck, University of London and gender equality charity The WOW Foundation that uses activism, art and academic research to challenge harmful stereotypes about sexual violence in a way that inspires action, honours the multifaceted work of survivor-activists, and creates an atmosphere of joy and pleasure despite the gravity of the topic. Come join my carnival stand to find out how we co-produced the festival to be inclusive, ethical and empowering to audiences, contributors and colleagues alike.

**Please note: the Shameless Carnival Stall will not discuss sexual violence. It will focus only on the collaboration that created the festival. However, the organiser understands that her presentation may nevertheless be triggering and has provided a safeguarding statement, which we've made available to you. You're very welcome to leave the session at any time if you feel overwhelmed. If you need more support, you can call the 24/7 National Rape Crisis Helpline on 0808 500 222, for confidential emotional support.

**Please see the safeguarding statement in the post below.

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Delivered by Solent University’s Communities Development- this session will provide participants with the opportunity to experience and learn more about our Civic Exchange model. The model was introduced as a template for the University to hold two-way conversations with the community- enabling our publics to access the University’s expertise through exploring a particular theme aligned to our Civic Charter. The format positions the University as an enabler and anchor institution- without necessarily being expected to take forward all of the outputs.

This session will be delivered in the format of a civic exchange in a condensed style- allowing participants to take part in the activity and help us in further growing engagement with the student community.

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The Turing Way - Open source, collaborative and inclusive community-led project to engage researchers in data science best practices 

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The Turing Way - Open source, collaborative and inclusive community-led project to engage researchers in data science best practices 

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The Turing Way is an open-source, community-led, and collaboratively developed project on making data science and research skills accessible, comprehensible, and beneficial for a wider research community. We bring together individuals from diverse fields and expertise to develop practices and learning resources that can make data research comprehensible and useful for everyone. These resources are organised as an online book with over 250 chapters across five guides on reproducibility, project design, collaboration, communication and ethics in research. This carnival stand will introduce The Turing Way project and community, and discuss the ways of working that we strive to uphold to make our work as accessible, inclusive and engaging as possible. We will give examples of how you can contribute in different ways and hopefully bring along some contributors to give their experiences of how they have engaged with the project.

We will give a short presentation of the case study and then have either videos from contributors or contributors will join us to give their experience of the project. We are particularly focused on accessibility at the moment so we will give a short talk about one aspect of this which is writing alt text for our images. Delegates will get a chance to have a go at writing alt text. Delegates will also have a chance to ask questions.

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Queen's Communities and Place (QCAP) - Data for Action 

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Queen's Communities and Place (QCAP) - Data for Action 

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This short film and presentation will demonstrate how Queen's Communities and Place (QCAP) seeks to transform how communities use data to drive action and social change. It aims to accomplish this by developing customised data visualisation tools like interactive dashboards that make complex data more comprehensible and usable. With these bespoke ‘data for action’ tools, communities can gather, analyse, visualise, and store their service delivery data or even assemble place-based census data profiles that draw on topics like health, employment, and education more effectively. QCAP also use these tools to build communities' data literacy as well as their capacity to strategically leverage data in ways that can secure the financial resources they need to support transformational change.

Following our short film and presentation, we will welcome comments, reflection and input from the audience and other contributors to help refine and develop our 'data for action' practices.

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**Safeguarding statement** Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence: Using activism, art and academic research to challenge social attitudes to sexual violence and inspire action

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**Safeguarding statement** Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence: Using activism, art and academic research to challenge social attitudes to sexual violence and inspire action

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OUTPUT: Fringe to Formal. "What does Community Engaged Learning mean to you?"

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OUTPUT: Fringe to Formal. "What does Community Engaged Learning mean to you?"

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Thanks everyone for your contributions during our session - From Fringe to Formal. Here is the word cloud we produced.

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OUTPUT: Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence.

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OUTPUT: Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence.

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Further outputs from the carnival session can be found here: https://padlet.com/rheasookdeosingh/shameless-festival-of-activism-against-sexual-violence-v766z8hxbp4ne0nf