Established in 2013 and run by the Public Engagement Unit, the Vice-Chancellor’s Engage Awards aims to reward and celebrate the work of colleagues from across the University of Bath who are engaging non-academic audiences with their research.
Winners of the Vice-Chancellor’s Engage Awards are recognised for their important role in undertaking excellent public engagement with their research, increasing the impact of their work, improving their own skills and leading by example. The four categories of the Awards are:
Informing - projects that share research with public groups from outside of academia
Listening - projects that listen and respond to the needs, knowledge and experience of public groups
Working together - projects that have involved working with public groups from outside of academia
Leadership - rewarding an individual that has made an exceptional contribution to the culture of public engagement across their research centre /institute /department /broader research community.
The Vice-Chancellor's Engage Awards, previously the Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Public Engagement with Research, have been running since 2013. Find out more about previous award winners.
The next Vice-Chancellor's Engage Awards will be held in 2021.