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How are UK academics engaging the public with their research? A cross-disciplinary perspective

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posted on 2016-03-24, 09:51 authored by Lesley Chikoore, Stephen Probets, Jenny FryJenny Fry, Claire Creaser
This paper takes a cross-disciplinary perspective in examining the views and practices of public engagement with research by UK academics. Using a mixed method approach consisting of a survey questionnaire and interviews, the paper identifies the range of audience groups that can potentially be engaged with by academics, and shows that some audiences are more relevant to particular disciplinary groups than others. The paper also identifies the various public engagement activities undertaken by academics and finds that some academics are using creative ways of engaging the public, such as using the services of public relations firms to help in disseminating their research in traditional media outlets, and also by using social media. Essentially, the study reveals that some academics feel the pressure of engaging particular audiences at the expense of those that are relevant to them and that, academics in the main, are opposed to the notion of mandating public engagement as part of appraisal systems.

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School

  • Business and Economics

Department

  • Business

Published in

Higher Education Quarterly

Citation

CHIKOORE, L. ... et al., 2016. How are UK academics engaging the public with their research? A cross-disciplinary perspective. Higher Education Quarterly, 70(2), pp. 145–169.

Publisher

© John Wiley and Sons

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2016

Notes

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: CHIKOORE, L. ... et al., 2016. How are UK academics engaging the public with their research? A cross-disciplinary perspective. Higher Education Quarterly, DOI: 10.1111/hequ.12088, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12088. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.

ISSN

0951-5224

eISSN

1468-2273

Language

  • en