Five Good Reasons to Engage

Five Benefits of Public Engagement

Increase the profile of your research
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Generate access to a wider audience through media publicity, high profile events and unanticipated outcomes.

Ensure research reflects community needs
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Enrich and explore research directions or to reflect public views and ethical concerns.

Build external collaboration capacities
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Position the University as a cultural engagement hub through academic and non-academic partners involved in public engagement projects.

Enhance personal skills
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Enhance creativity, teaching, writing and leadership through design and delivery of public engagement projects.

Enhance the competitiveness of the University
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Delivery on the key commitments of the University's Aberdeen 2040 strategy through the support of embedded engagement within research proposals.