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As a Heritage Scientist, my research sits at the crossroads between Humanities and Science. To me, interdisciplinary research means functioning as a bridge between art history/archaeology and natural sciences. Therefore, interdisciplinary PE means engaging museum visitors with the research in this field, for example by creating contents about the materiality of any kind of object which often plays a marginal role in museum interpretations.

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Part of my role is to promote and support public engagement, and in particular co-production of research, in the broad area of health and wellbeing at the University. For me, interdisciplinarity is important in public engagement as most challenges are multi/transdisciplinary and it is through bringing together a wide range of people with complementary expertise that are able to co-produce the best interventions and solutions.

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Janos Deak - Citizen Social Scientist from Walsall 

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Janos Deak - Citizen Social Scientist from Walsall 

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It is time to build the bridge between the virtual and offline world as well as connect academics and communities to focus on social impact by providing the missing valuable functions of the social technology for the common good.

Holistic approach - Can defined as a way of solving multiple problems with a single investment of time and money, the multisolving approach brings together stakeholders from different sectors and disciplines to tackle public issues in a cost-efficient manner.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/citizen-social-science-age-alpha-generation-humanner-/

I'm just one from the general public as a Hungarian migrant in the UK from 2008.
I started my new life in the UK as a Class 1 lorry driver.
But next to my daily job I tried to find out how and what kind of business I can start. Where is the empty market and what kind of problem I will solve?
I didn't know what I was looking for. I just started discovering and learning about everything marketing, sociology SDI, System Design Thinking, technology trend, economy trend and alternative business models, cloud hosting infrastructure. I had always felt there is something that I can't see and do not find yet.
Finally in 2019 I felt the skeleton of my idea is complete and ready for feedback.

"THE PROBLEM IS NOT THE LACK OF A COLLECTIVE DESIRE FOR A POSITIVE FUTURE
BUT THE LACK OF A COLLECTIVE VEHICLE FOR POSITIVE ACTIONS."

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I support animal science researchers at the University of Edinburgh's Roslin Institute to engage the public with their research.
Many of our engagement activities benefit hugely from contributions by researchers across a range of different disciplines. So whether or not the research was interdisciplinary, the research engagement often needs to be.

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📹Jen Grove - UKRI Public Engagement team

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📹Jen Grove - UKRI Public Engagement team

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Hello, I'm Jen, here is my face so you can recognise me at the meeting. I've just moved to UKRI and work in the central Public Engagement team, working on ways to support public engagement with research across the UK. Interdisciplinary PE means to me drawing on knowledge and methods from across different disciplines in creating and sharing research that can best speak to challenges in the world today - which complement and work with the rich variety of non-academic perspectives and interpretations that are gained by doing PE.

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Laura Baldock, Public Engagement Officer Humanities & Social Science - Oxford Brookes

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Laura Baldock, Public Engagement Officer Humanities & Social Science - Oxford Brookes

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To me Interdisciplinary Public Engagement means creating content, events and engagement programmes showcasing our best research which tackles the themes and topics of most interest to our communities from a broad range of perspectives. It means breaking down - often externally irrelevant disciplinary boundaries - to show the relevance of our research to everyone's everyday.  Interdisciplinary Engagement therefore creates more accessible spaces which allow publics to feedback and/or collaborate in the research process.
This is something we are "learning through doing" in quite an instinctive way through the  trial and error of various event formats. I am interested to hear other people's experiences of this type of engagement - what works and what doesn't!

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I work as Public Engagement Coordinator in the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU). Most of our engagement work takes place in SE Asia. Interdisciplinary engagement is important, as the issues facing communities are complex and multi-faceted, including science, public health, social science etc. Effective engagement recognises the complexity and needs of communities, and adds an additional layer of culture, media, and participation.

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Zara Gladman, Public & Community Engagement Advisor, University of Glasgow

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Zara Gladman, Public & Community Engagement Advisor, University of Glasgow

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I facilitate PE by staff and students by leading training, supporting participation in strategic engagement events/initiatives and advising on effective evaluation/impact capture.

In a previous role, I worked for Glasgow Science Festival, which involved developing a range of interdisciplinary-engagement projects (e.g. "Imagineer" which connected theatre researchers with engineers).

I'm interested in ways of supporting/stimulating collaboration between disciplines. As research becomes more interdisciplinary, so will our engagement.

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Luke Souter, Public engagement coach -Let's Chat Science

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Luke Souter, Public engagement coach -Let's Chat Science

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I have recently completed my PhD which was an interdisciplinary research project involving multiple university departments - Biology, Physics and engineering. While conducting my PhD I also worked as an Education Outreach Fellow to engage school kids with activities being conducted within the Faculty of Biological Science.

Having finished my PhD I am now working with the University of Leeds to establish a public engagement training programme specifically designed to support PhD students. The hope is to then offer this training to other universities, as part of my business, Let's Chat Science.

Interdisciplinary public engagement to me is creating activities and events focussed around research and scientific problems that bridge multiple disciplines. Having spent my research career in this gap it is a unique opportunity and problem, as funding is often difficult to get as the projects could be funded by multiple different bodies. So an activity based around joint replacements involved research funded by both the BBSRC and the EPSRC. So who funds it? It is an interesting opportunity as interdisciplinary research is often very application based, meaning the results, hopes and ambitions of the project are often easy to describe and great for creating events around.

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Michael Scott, Director of Warwick Institute of Engagement

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Michael Scott, Director of Warwick Institute of Engagement

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I work as the co-Director of the newly formed Warwick Institute of Engagement (www.warwick.ac.uk/wie) and as a Professor of Classics at the University. I have long been passionate about the role of public engagement / wider Knowledge Exchange in academia. The Warwick Institute of Engagement has been created to bring academics from across the different disciplines together, along with professional services staff and our students, to enable a more joined-up and strategic set of discussions about how to do, train for, and teach engagement, which can then inform wider University practice. The Institute also helps to curate the role of the University in our regional and national communities, and of course contributes to the organisation of a wide range of University engagement events (e.g. Coventry City of Culture 2021)

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Oli Moore, Science Engagement Facilitator, University of Oxford

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Oli Moore, Science Engagement Facilitator, University of Oxford

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I'm setting up a new Science Engagement Programme connecting our researchers to community groups across Oxfordshire. For me, I'm keen to explore how interdisciplinary PER can offer a broader platform for diverse audiences to 'land on', and a way for researchers to present their work in new ways.