WARWICK INSTITUTE OF ENGAGEMENT
Annual Report
August 2024 - July 2025
A message from the Directors
3605 visits to our online training resources
637 637 attendees to training sessions collaborative projects with Students URSS students supported with Public Engagement 30 30 32 students enrolled on our IATL modules paid internships with local organisations 7 6 public engagement module development projects
Partners Fellows Members
46 1537 1537 audience members
12,629 12,629 attendees at partners
117 Warwick collaborators with events run, shared or supported and organised with over 52 external organisations
20 20 awards for excellent public engagement with Awards
63 individual and team awardees
37 organistions engaging
Our Vision, Commitments and Goals
This year we have worked hard to refine our strategic vision for the Warwick Institute of Engagement. Our commitments and goals are set out below and all relate to our broader mission, that the Warwick Institute of Engagement empowers the University of Warwick’s community to connect meaningfully with the wider world through inclusive, innovative, and impactful public engagement. We champion collaboration between staff, students, and communities to share knowledge, foster dialogue, and inspire change. By embedding engagement into the heart of university culture, we aim to make research and learning accessible, relevant, and transformative for all.
Inspiring Experiences
Increase Collaboration
Raise Ambitions
Engaging Futures
Strengthen the Field
Demonstrate Excellence
The WIE Team
This year has seen the team grow with the addition of Lils Dobber who joined us for his first placement within the Warwick Management Graduate Training programme He focussed on the delivery of our public engagement focussed events for the celebration of Warwick’s 60 alongside Beth RussellTsuro who coordinated the programme. Both have now ended their appointments as the 60 programme comes to an end. We were delighted to have Helen Luckhurst re-join the team after her maternity break. Her role takes a different focus with a greater emphasis on how to make the most of our emerging partnerships In recognition of the role Naomi does for the team she has become an Engagement Manager. She continues to oversee WIE's training offer, our annual conference, and our student modules. She also has oversight of our data collection and reporting and is the lead on our refreshed Fellowship and Learning Circle schemes. th th We say goodbye to Prof Rachel Edwards who completes her term with us after 4 years She started off as Associate Director and then helped to define the work of our Faculty Public Engagement Leads by pioneering the role for the Faculty of Science Engineering and Medicine.
Introducing our Faculty Public Engagement Leads
Our Faculty Public Engagement Leads (FPELs) are public engagement specialists from each of the university’s three faculties who will help us to ensure that WIE reflects Warwick’s rich and varied research cultures They will provide leadership, advice and guidance on public engagement and knowledge exchange initiatives across the university and will play a part in the preparation work for Warwick’s forthcoming Research Excellence Framework submission. They are Dr James Hodkinson (FPEL for Arts), Dr Phil Jemmett (FPEL for Science, Engineering and Medicine) and Dr Georgiana Mihut (FPEL for Social Sciences).
Our Membership and Fellowship
Our aim has always been to make WIE as inclusive as possible, to reach as many people as possible and to enable all to get stuck in with public engagement. In 2025, we launched our new membership scheme and updated fellowship scheme to enable WIE to be accessible to all. Our Fellows continue to be key to the work of WIE across the university. We are proud to partner with a range of people from across the University and beyond.
Learning Circles
We’re really excited to announce some changes to how our Learning Circles run for 25-26. We currently have 7 Learning Circles that explore a variety of themes relating to public engagement. From this year we ’ re opening up meetings and other activity run by the Learning Circles to all our WIE Members. You no longer have to join a particular learning circle and can instead move between meetings depending on what interests you.
Co-Production and Communities
Follow the link below to find out about meetings and events coming up. We’ll also email all our members monthly and include details of any activity coming up you can take part in.
We’ve also widened the opportunities for our Fellows to get involved in leading and shaping Learning Circles by creating Steering Groups for each one. Each Steering Group is run by at least 5 Fellows. We welcome suggestions for new Learning Circles from our Fellows.
Find out more about our Membership, Fellowship and LCs here
Learning Circles
Partnerships
Our work with the Regional Fellows
Warwick District Council
Thanks to support from another of our Regional Fellows, Johnathan Branson, who is the Projects and Development Manager for Arts at Warwick District Council, we have been able to develop new collaborations in Leamington Spa including hosting the first off campus Resonate Day Out at the Pump Rooms, and a Resonate Late in the newly refurbished Town Hall. These events connected with the history and community of the town, with activities in the Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum on topics such as treasure and local languages, and a talk at the Town Hall from Professor Helen Pankhurst, whose great grandmother Emmeline Pankhurst spoke at the same venue in the early 1900s
Coventry Biennial
The next iteration of the Biennial launched in early October 2025 and features a major collaboration between the Birmingham-based artist, practice-led researcher, facilitator and educator Caitlin Kiely and Jamie Larkin (Assistant Professor in the School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures), whose research looks broadly at the past, present and future of the UK museum sector. For Coventry Biennial 2025, Caitlin and Jamie have collaborated to make a new project that explores the idea of the museum as a collection of processes connected to a place, as opposed to a static destination or specific point in time. Through the use of art, storytelling and social engagement their work at Coventry Cathedral for the Biennial reimagines the material history of this iconic building and the people that made it
Monash University
In June 2025, our Academic Director, Helen Wheatley and Faculty Public Engagement Lead (Arts), James Hodkinson, visited the Arts Faculty in Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, for a series of events to share current practice and ideas about public engagement and its impact. The aim of the week-long residency was to share information about public engagement at both universities, and to explore the similarities and differences in how engagement and research impact are conceptualised and undertaken across our two institutions. The visit was organised by Prof Jo Winning (Head of the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash) with sponsorship from Prof Brett Hutchins (Deputy Dean (Research), Faculty of Arts, Monash). The outcomes of the visit include plans for a future return visit by Monash colleagues to Warwick at the beginning of next year to develop some joint publishing on public engagement and a large-scale research project grant on the long-term impact of public engagement in the Humanities, Arts and Social Science disciplines.
National Coordinating Centre for Public and Engagement (NCCPE)
We were delighted to welcome Paul Manners, Co-Director of the National CoOrdinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE), to speak at our annual conference this year. The NCCPE is the national body that advocates for the role of public and community engagement in building a more inclusive higher education sector. Paul spoke on our panel about ethical and inclusive engagement which kicked off the conference and spoke passionately about the need to work in collaboration with community partners. We hope to work more closely with the NCCPE in the coming year.
It has been another exciting year for the Resonate programme. We’ve been able to visit new places, explore new topics, welcome back audiences and meet new ones As well as running our own events, we have been proud to officially launch our ‘Shared by Resonate’ programme - supporting colleagues at Warwick to share nearly 100 fascinating engagement projects with our local community. Working with the wider WIE team, we ’ ve been improving ways we can enable, support and promote the excellent research and engagement work taking place across the university.
“The Resonate Team are absolutely fantastic: they give so much support to staff with the planning of the activities, and the rehearsal session in particular really helped me to think through my ideas and plan something that would work well. They are also full of brilliant suggestions for handson and creative elements - it is so useful to be able to draw on their experience in the planning and prep stages.”
11,896 11,896 events attended by 35 online 112 112
11,727 in person
205 205
Organised by:
106 106 Warwick students
External Partners
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of staff and students facilitating or supporting Resonate activity access some form of WIE training first. of facilitators rated overall experience of the event they supported as ‘good’ or ‘excellent’ and 100% ‘ very likely’ or ‘somewhat likely’ to get involved with another engagement activity led by WIE
Resonate Lates
Resonate Lates are a programme of evening events for adults that take place offcampus at community venues across Coventry and Warwickshire. This academic year we ’ ve invited guest speakers to connect Warwick research to important conversations in wider society. You can find more information about the event we hosted with the Women’s Health Mission and Dr Nighat Arif on page 22. We also built on our work with Warwick District Council and local history, and we were joined by Helen Pankhurst to discuss women ’ s suffrage and women in politics today. This allowed us to bring together researchers from different faculties, embedding Warwick’s focus on creating connections into the very heart of the Resonate programme.
Resonate Days Out
This year we held our first off-campus day out at the Royal Pump Rooms in Leamington Spa, and welcomed over 1300 visitors to our central campus. We had the privilege of working with staff, students and local organisations to explore topics from treasure to telescopes. Building a new collaboration with Eatwise, we were also able to offer locally sourced, healthy, mindful food at our Festivals
Thanks to feedback from our attendees, we have also been able to action the 24/25 Resonate Pledge as we work to continually improve the programme. Read more about how we ’ ve developed this year, and our aims for 25/26 by scanning the QR below.
Feedback from event attendees who answered “ agree ” or “strongly agree ” in our online feedback
I enjoyed today’s event
I have learned something new at this event
I would use or share information learned at the event
This event has given me a positive feeling about my community
This event has given me a positive feeling about The University of Warwick
Rated inclusivity as good or very good
Were attending a University of Warwick event for the first time
It made me feel hugely proud to work at Warwick, and my five-year-old daughter described it as “the best day ever!”
“The event felt inclusive and friendly and really opened all of our eyes to the breadth of scientific knowledge and research taking place at the University of Warwick“
Find out more about this year ’ s events on our Resonate Stories
The Warwick 60 Anniversary th Events
Thanks to special funding from the university, the Warwick Institute of Engagement has supported the celebration of the university’s 60th anniversary with a series of extra public events and activities throughout the year. Designed to celebrate the anniversary but also to create a legacy from this special year, the events were designed to achieve one main goal – to share knowledge and create dialogue with new audiences. We did this in two ways: by joining pre-existing public events and by taking our events to places and areas that we hadn't been to previously.
Within the time frame of this annual report, the first half of the 60th anniversary year, we supported staff and students who collectively contributed 688 hours of their time to help us deliver events that reached 733 event attendees. Our Resonate Roadshow at the Innovation Campus to deliver a fun day of hands-on activities in May, took part in the Canley Big Lunch in early June, joined the Rugby Museum and Art Gallery’s birthday bash in late June and were part of the Godiva Festival weekend in July
Each event saw staff and students from across the university sharing their passion, knowledge and love of their subject areas with members of public through hands-on activities, talks or visual methods and engaging in conversations about the how and why of what they do and the differences they make to modern life.
Building Capacity
Our building capacity programme runs throughout the year with a series of skills focussed masterclasses led by external experts, rehearsal sessions with the team for those taking part in Resonate events, general training sessions for departments, online resources for people to access in their own time via the WIE Skills Festival, and our annual WIE Conference. The majority of our activity is open to all staff and students, with some extra masterclasses put on just for students. This year, our programme included the following masterclasses: Hands on Engagement and Impact through Engagement by Dr Jamie Gallagher, Presentation Skills by Dr Anna Ploszajski, Social Media for Public Engagement by Sam Langford, Posters for Public Engagement and Engagement with Sensitive Topics by Hana Ayoob, Evaluation of Public Engagement by Dr Ellie King, Engaging Through Collections by Lily Crowther, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Public Engagement by Sarah Cosgriff, and Delivering Neuroinclusive Events by Hannah FordTomlinson. A huge thanks to all our wonderful, specialist trainers who make the content of the programme so excellent.
interactions with the training programme we had... views of our online training materials (the Skills Festival)
individuals who went on to apply their new skills and took part in a Resonate event
“I have been presenting for 20 years but I went expecting to learn new things and that's exactly what I did. The facilitator was excellent.” Attendee at ‘Presentation Skills’
“It was so refreshing to hear about strategies for running engagement when you are (or have staff members who are) neurodivergentthere is understandably a focus on students and participants in delivering activities, but often staff members get forgotten in this equation and to be truly neuro-inclusive it is important to consider everyone. ” Attendee at ‘Delivering Neuroinclusive Events’
“Each year the conference has improved and this was an excellent event, which is a testimony to the dedication, commitment and hard work of the WIE team. Thank you ” Attendee at the WIE Conference.
The WIE Conference
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Our work with Students
Enhancing case creation through enaging people with lived experience - Dawn Collins, Nick Hopcroft, Hollie White, Kate Owen, Lindsay Muscroft, Michele Gutteridge, Jackie Shanley (WMS), WMS Students & community and public partners
Science and public engagement - Sophie Martucci, Christine Lockey, Ian Edwards (School of Life Sciences), School of Life Sciences Year 2 Students & Herbert Art Gallery and Museum
From classroom to community: enhancing engineering skills through public engagementIshwar Kapoor (Engineering) & University of Warwick students
Serious Tabletop Game Design and Development - Devon Allcoat (WMG) & Warwick Students
Social Welfare Law and the CommunityRebecca Munro, Tara Mulqueen (School of Law), School of Law Students & social welfare law practitioners
Globalisation, diversity and public engagement: Putting theory into practice through podcasting as module assessment - Stephanie Schnurr, Duncan Lees, Matthew Turner, Marianna Patrick, Yvette Wang, Joel Agius, Diana Wang, and VC Zhang (Applied Linguistics)
Internships
In summer 2025, WIE funded eight internships across seven organisations in the region, as listed below. These Internships have continued to be of high value to those involved, but as we head into 2025-26, we will replace this programme with other opportunities which have a wider impact for more staff, students and external partners.
Internships 2024-25:
Coventry Biennial: Social Programme Coordinator
Coventry Irish Society: Creative Communications Assistant
Culture Coventry Trust: Learning and Engagement Assistants
Five Acre Community Farm: Farming and Community Engagement Assistant
Health Determinants Research Collaboration Coventry: Public Involvement Assistant
Together for Change: Creative Community Projects Assistant
Warwick Arts Centre: Gallery Administrator
“This is an excellent scheme. It is incredibly well organised and has made a significant beneficial impact on our charity. Every aspect of the scheme was outstanding and exceeded expectations. We were well supported by WIE and could see that the intern's well-being was always at the centre too. We worked with one intern on a six week placement this summer and he was such an asset to our team; from the added value he brought to our organisation, to how well he fitted in. He worked exceptionally hard to produce a first-rate product for us. The feedback from all of our team and community members was 100% fantastic and a few tears were shed when it was time to say goodbye.” Coventry Irish Society
The Faculty of Arts and WIE
Fellows
Fellows
Fund Awardees
Student sign-ups for modules
People taking part in events
Attendees at our training sessions
Support for Curriculum innovation: The work of the Design Studies team
Student Engagement Excellence:
The Collaboration and Co-Production Fund: Nadine Holdsworth’s collaboration with Underground Lights
Libby Ainsworth (Liberal Arts) and Charlotte Dodd (ECLS)
On a sunny Sunday in May, Warwick’s Innovation Campus welcomed 250 visitors from toddlers to seniors—for a vibrant celebration of food, agriculture, and sustainability. Through hands-on activities and storytelling, guests explored where food comes from, how it’s grown, and the cutting-edge research led by Warwick’s School of Life Sciences. Highlights included aerial silk performances illustrating protein folding, AI-powered weeding robots, sensory plant experiments, and biodiversity projects attracting endangered species to campus. Visitors described the event as ‘friendly’, ‘exciting’, and ‘inspiring’, and left with heritage seeds, UKgrown beans from Nurtural Food, and recipe cards from Eatwise and the campus archives.
We Need To Talk About Women’s Health: WIE and the Women’s Health Mission
We’ve been proud to support Warwick’s new Women’s Health Mission, spotlighting innovative work by staff and students. Eleanor Harrison, a postgraduate researcher in the Greaves Lab, led public engagement on menstrual health and endometriosis through talks, workshops, and stalls at events like Science on the Hill and the Festival of Science and Technology. Professor Erin Greaves received funding to collaborate with Sioda Adams (Earth-bound performance company) on community workshops using arts-based discussion to de-stigmatise women ’ s health Both featured at our Resonate Late event ‘We Need to Talk About Women’s Health’, alongside eight Warwick researchers and returning guest Dr. Nighat Arif. One attendee shared, ‘I’ve learned more about my own body in one night than in the last 60 years!’ As women left asking how to get involved in Warwick’s research, the power of public engagement was clear.
URSS as a Route to Engagement: The Mathematical Knitting project by
Beth Higgs
Engagement plays an integral role in a Warwick education. For maths undergraduate Beth Higgs, it was central to her Undergraduate Research Support Scheme project, The Mathematical Knitting Project She created an accessible activity introducing school children to geometry through knitted models, visiting two local schools with a two-part workshop on cellular automata, hyperbolic geometry, and presenting student-designed objects. Beth also collaborated with arts group Foleshill Creates, helping attendees crochet heptagons to model a Klein quartic. Presenting at the Big Bang festival in Birmingham deepened her understanding of how people experience maths beyond the classroom.
Social Sciences and WIE
Hands-On Engagement With The Law:
Charlotte Woodhead brings her research to our festivals
The success of our events programme relies on the creativity of Warwick staff who bring research to life for new audiences. Charlotte Woodhead, Associate Professor in Law, exemplified this by engaging people with cultural heritage law at major festivals At the Festival of Social Sciences, she transformed a treasure hunt into a legal exploration of buried treasure, showing how laws protect historical objects. At the Festival of Arts and Culture, she designed activities to help visitors understand intangible heritage folklore, festivals, language, traditions —and contribute to a display. Participants then acted as policymakers, deciding what should be recognised and how law can preserve it. Her work has demystified cultural heritage for many.
Public Engagement Internships:
Kezia Davies (Sociology MA student) at the Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC) and Coventry City Council’s Public Health Team
WIE Internships offer select students the chance to apply public engagement skills through paid placements with external organisations. Kezia Davies, an MA student in Social Inequalities and Research Methods, spent the summer with Coventry Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC) and Coventry City Council Public Health, evaluating their year-old Public Voice Group (PVG) a forum for community input on health inequalities. She co-designed and delivered research with HDRC colleagues and PVG members Her findings will guide the group ’ s future direction, and she updated the HDRC’s Public Involvement Principles to reflect their commitment to inclusive, community-driven research.
The Events and Activities Fund:
Anastasia Chamberlen (Sociology) and the Captive Arts Project
Our rapid response Events and Activities Fund enables Warwick staff and students to stage public engagement events This year, Anastasia Chamberlen (Sociology) used the fund to support an international symposium on Prisoner Arts at Warwick Arts Centre, bringing together academics, artists, activists, and officials to explore the creative lives of incarcerated people worldwide. The fund enabled a photographer to document exhibitions, performances, and panels (viewable at www.captivearts.co.uk), making the event accessible to those unable to attend. It also supports the newly launched International Justice Arts Network, which emerged from this impactful gathering
We couldn’t host our events programme without the support and expertise of colleagues from across Warwick’s campuses. Particular thanks go to our key collaborating teams, including Portering, Cleaning, Community Safety, Sustainability, and Warwick Food and Drink.
This year we were particularly grateful to the following teams who went above and beyond to help us make WIE events extra special
Eatwise
We were delighted to partner with Eatwise on the catering at the Festival of Science and Technology, the Resonate Roadshow Day Out: Seeds, Soil and Sustainability at the Innovation Campus, and the Festival of Arts and Culture. Their brilliant, creative team worked with us to design bespoke offerings that matched our events, showcasing Warwick research with the inclusion of ingredients from the crop centre including Eric Holub’s innovative new bean varieties. This also helped us to improve accessibility by offering free catering for visitors, and the team’s care and attention to people’s dietary requirements was hugely appreciated by all.
University of Warwick’s Glassblowers
We were delighted to partner with Warwick’s Glassblowers
Stephen Williams and Daisy Ashworth on the design and production of our fabulous, bespoke trophies for the Warwick Awards for Public and Community Engagement. Reflecting WIE’s ‘speech bubble’ design, these awards helped us celebrate the excellence of our winners in a truly ‘Warwick’ style.
Engaging across the disciplines
WIE has worked collaboratively throughout the year to support interdisciplinary collaboration across the university. The design of our events programme is inherently interdisciplinary and we also work in partnership with other departments in the university that promote cross-faculty collaboration. For example, we work with the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning on delivering teaching on the theory and practice of public engagement, and share a Learning Circle and some training that supports promotion applications with our colleagues from the Warwick International Higher Education Academy.
Our Learning Circles provide an interdisciplinary space for the discussion of a variety of topics relating to public engagement. They are our guides to deciding what the Institute should do, and how, and how engagement is developing at Warwick. One of their strengths is found in their interdisciplinarity: practices and approaches of public engagement that develop in particular disciplines are shared with the wider community.
We have been delighted to see the activity of Warwick’s interdisciplinary Research Spotlights build momentum this year and continue to look for ways to highlight excellence and opportunities for public collaboration in these six areas. In this table we have indicated how these themes were represented in our events programme for 2024/25
Find out more about the Interdisciplinary Research Spotlights
The Collaboration and Co-Production Fund
The Warwick Institute of Engagement’s mission is to support staff and students to engage with the wider world. One of the ways we do this is through our Collaboration and Co-Production Fund. Awards of up to £3,000 are made to help current staff and students to develop ongoing collaborative relationships with local, national and international partners, groups or organisations. The fund runs twice yearly and you can see below a summary of our achievements to date.
Since starting the fund in 2021, we have funded 57 collaborative projects, involving 195 students, 131 Warwick staff, 340 partners and artists form 127 external organisations, engaging 3,046 event participants. Below is a sample of the stories from the projects we have funded. You can read more about the projects we funded and the impact they are having by following the link below.
Early Action Benefits Advice Hub - Tara Mulqueen and Alan Markey
In 2024-25, Tara Mulqueen (Associate Professor, School of Law) worked with Alan Markey (Coventry Independent Advice Service) to trial a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) Clinic at Holbrooks Community Centre in Coventry. Supported by trained student volunteers, the clinic helped with all aspects of the process of applying for PIP and challenging decisions, addressing gaps in local advice provision, and putting public engagement into action with some tangible results. With our funding this year, the clinic supported 66 clients, including four clients who gained more than £13,000 in backdated payments and increased awards, and clients making new applications with the support of the clinic stand to see their annual incomes increase by between £1500 – £9700 each. Clients who attended the clinic reported feeling more confident, knowing what to do if a problem with their benefits arises in the future. The students who staffed the clinic (many from the Public Legal Education module) got an important opportunity to put their knowledge into practice and to better understand the forms of systemic injustice faced by disabled people. The clinic will subsequently be supported by the Law School on a permanent basis and the number of student volunteers expanded as part of the Warwick Law in the Community (LinC) initiative.
Find out more about the awarded projects here including videos and photos
Youth Support Programme - Freeha Azmat and Asima Iqbal
Freeha Azmat and Asima Iqbal (WMG) led the Youth Engagement Empowerment Initiative (YEEI) into its second year in 2024-25. This project, a partnership between University of Warwick (UK), the Academic Leaders Innovation Forum, and multiple educational and community partners across Pakistan, focuses on bridging opportunity gaps for unemployed youth through 21 century skills. After training 25 individuals in its first phase in global citizenship, transferable skills and digital literacy, the initiative went on to support 28 more unemployed graduates from underprivileged areas from beyond Lahore. This had a continued focus on preparing young people for global engagement and meaningful employment. This ongoing collaboration shows that community engagement extends far beyond Warwick’s local communities, here making a difference to the lives of young people in urban and rural Pakistan.
SVG2 Collaboration - Kate Astbury and Abigail Coppins
You may remember Kate Astbury and Abigail Coppins’ (SMLC) collaboration with Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Second Generation (SV2G) from last year ’ s annual report. Their joint research into Caribbean prisoners of war held at Portchester Castle during the Revolutionary decade has inspired a constellation of projects. Like Freeha and Asima, Kate, Abigail and SV2G received further Collaboration and Co-Production funding, and their work has flourished three years on. After an exciting joint exhibition in St Paul’s Cathedral, they’ve continued supporting SV2G members in exploring archives and developing responses to the cultural memory of exile and island history. They’re now creating webpages to share their work and will soon showcase stories of Caribbean warrior women who resisted enslavement a topic close to SV2G’s female members. In St Vincent, their collaboration has extended to new work with Georgetown School, which has integrated one major Portchester-related activity per term across its curriculum. We’re proud to have supported this brilliant partnership.
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Warwick Awards for Public and Community Engagement (WAPCE)
The Warwick Awards for Public and Community Engagement (WAPCE) recognise the vital contributions Warwick staff and students make to engaging and involving the public in all that we do. They show how we are strengthening the role we play in the region and creating moments of exciting interaction with Warwick research for members of the public, how we work in partnership with communities locally, nationally and internationally, and demonstrate the impact that Warwick staff and students have on social mobility and on engaging underrepresented groups in higher education. In the fourth year of our awards we have introduced new categories which have enabled us to celebrate a fuller range of public and community engagement activities.
Find out more about WAPCE and meet the 2025 winners here!
What has working with WIE meant to you?
Mingtong Li, PGR Psychology
“WIE gave me an opportunity to share developmental science with hundreds of families in museums. It reminded me why I started this work, and who it’s truly for.”
“Working with WIE has been invaluable, not only through the sharing of best practice via the Fellows network but also the direct benefits to our programme delivery. The interns who have supported our summer programme have been a lifeline during the busy holiday activity season. They have brought a fresh and energetic approach, and the learning team have greatly appreciated having them on board ”
Marguerite Nugent Regional Fellow since 2022
Jacqueline Roberts
External
partner
from SV2G
“The Warwick Institute of Engagement has been vital to us as a community organisation to give us the opportunity to work in partnership with academia at our pace. Being a community collaborator with the School of Modern Languages and Cultures on the coproduction of historical research has empowered SV2G to explore and share our history through the exchange of knowlegde, training and resources. The process has created a space to learn and reflect where different forms of knowledge are valued.”
“Such a wonderful university, I will be using the university more in the future as it's a jewel of the area and nothing like the university I went to for my undergraduate and masters. It has made me want to apply here for my PhD in the future and my 8 year old says they want to study here in the future too” Attendee at one of our events
"Working with WIE has helped us develop links with local councils and organisations working with underserved communities including refugees and asylum seekers. The funding has enabled us to purchase the equipment we needed to set up student-led health checks which we have piloted during 2425 and are now embedded in our MBChB curriculum. 190 students will be taking part during August and September 2025! This service learning initiative benefits everyone - students gain a greater understanding of health inequities and use their clinical skills, while visitors get a health check and health advice. Early evaluation suggests that the clinics are picking up undiagnosed illnesses and increasing confidence of visitors in the healthcare system. Students are developing their professional identity, growing more confident in their skills and gaining insights into why health inequities exist. "
Kate Owen, Collaboration and Co-Production Fund Recipient
