IoPPN London Champions
IoPPN London Champions Dr Margaret Heslin and Dr Billy Gazard
IoPPN London Champion Mission Statement
The IoPPN London Champions’ mission is to support and promote IoPPN based engagement and outreach activities with local communities and in London more widely.
Specifically, we aim to:
1. Promote and support a range of outreach activities with young people, with a particular focus on education and career aspiration, mental wellbeing promotion, and science engagement;
2. Promote and support a range of public engagement activities, with a particular focus on encouraging dialogue with local communities;
3. Increase the visibility of mental health research conducted at the IoPPN that is most relevant to London communities.
A wealth of resources to support high quality engagement can be found on the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement website. You can also learn more about how King’s researchers are engaging communities here.
Reporting your public engagement event
Documenting your public engagement and outreach work is important for reporting outcomes to funders and communicating your work more widely. Below is a template for writing up your PE event which can then be sent to the communications team and/or added to relevant news letters.
Content
- Title: what was the title of the event?
- What: what did you actually do? Give details. E.g. Talk? Workshop? Debate?
- Aim: what was the aim of the event? E.g. Raising awareness? Widening participation? Gaining input on research?
- Who: who was it targeted at and who/how many attended? E.g. General public? Young people? Service users?
- Feedback: what was the feedback from participants?
- Next: is there any follow-up events?
- Media: add a picture, quote about the event or a link to any other information.
Example
IoPPN Youth Awards
The IoPPN Youth Awards ran over the summer of 2017. The Awards aim to encourage young people (aged 15-18) from schools in the local area to stay in science and maths education. The awards consist of providing a work experience placement for 29 winners which see them spend several days integrated into a research team at the IoPPN. They also receive ongoing mentoring following the placement and a book token to aid towards their studies.
The awards will be opening again in Autumn 2017 for Summer 2018.
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/youth-awards/index.aspx
Contact
For further information please contact: ioppnlondonchampion@kcl.ac.uk
Follow @IoPPN_LC on twitter for more relevant events to attend.