Outcomes and Impacts

Engaged Research Seminar Series

This seminar series organised by UCD Research brings expert insights from national and international authorities on engaged research to the UCD community. Learn from experts in the field about how engaged research practices can benefit your research and your research impact.

Upcoming seminar

Engaged Research Seminar 5
Image of Niccola Hutchinson Pascal beside a Co-production collective logo

Speaker: Niccola Hutchinson Pascal

Niccola Hutchinson Pascal is Head of the Co-Production Collective.

The Co-Production Collective began in University College London and supports co-production projects. It enables others to co-produce, bring people together to share learning and ideas, and build evidence and influence to make the case for co-production.

Time: 05 November 2024, 1pm Online

Register: ucd-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fnZRyTA9SdmRtuZAGphnuQ

 

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Iphigenia Pottaki, Policy Officer at the Valorisation Policies and IPR Unit of the European Commission DG Research and Innovation

On 07 May 2024 Iphigenia Pottaki gave us an an overview of the new European Code of Practice on Citizen Engagement for Knowledge Valorisation.  The code of practice provide guidance for researchers and innovators on how to actively engage with other players to jointly produce and valorise knowledge for the benefit of the economy and society.

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Policy and the future of engaged research in Ireland

Changes in Irish and EU research policy are now actively encouraging greater participation of non-academic community stakeholders in research.In this panel discussion held on 26 October 2023 explored how the transition to engaged research can be fostered to create embedded and sustainable culture of collaborating with non-traditional research stakeholders.

Panellists:

  • Ciara Bates: Voluntary and Community Supports Unit, Department of Rural and Community Development
  • David Chapman: Public Engagement Programme Lead, UK Research and Innovation
  • Ivan Cooper: CEO of The Wheel, Ireland's national association of charities, community and voluntary organisations and social enterprises.
  • Trudy Duffy: Evidence for policy unit, Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science

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Prof Will Dixon, University of Manchester

On 11 May 2023 Prof Dixon spoke about how public involvement and citizen science was embedded into the digital epidemiology research project Cloudy with a Chance of Pain. Prof Dixon is a Professor of Digital Epidemiology and Director of the Centre for Epidemiology Versus Arthritis at the University of Manchester. 

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Prof Muki Haklay, University College London

"Doing excellent research with citizen science – opportunities and challenges".

Prof. Haklay is a Professor of Geographic Information Science in the Department of Geography at UCL. His research focuses on environment and society relationships, and he is the co-director of the UCL Extreme Citizen Science group. Prof. Haklay is renowned for the wider societal and economic impact of his work using citizen science approaches. 

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