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Over the last few months, all the Research Councils have changed the Terms and Conditions of Research and Training Grants to further encourage (or even mandate!) public engagement with research and the necessary supportive culture. http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/Pages/grantstcs.aspx Specifically for training grants (as this is the topic): TGC 9: It is the responsibility of the Research Organisation, Supervisors and Students to actively communicate the research to the public at both local and national level, and to raise awareness of the role of science and research in any related issues of public interest. So from the funder's point of view, it seems clear that there is funding within the training grant for the student to undertake public engagement activities (provided it is related to the research). Bruce ********************************************************************** Further information about the psci-com discussion list, including list archive, can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psci-com.html You may also change your settings and subscribe/unsubscribe to psci-com from the web site. Psci-com is part of the National Academic Mailing List Service, known as 'JISCMail'. It adheres to the JISCMail Acceptable Use Policy: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/acceptableuse.html and to the JISCMail guidelines for etiquette: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/etiquette.html Email commands: 1. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] with the following message: set psci-com nomail -- [include hyphens] 2. To resume email from the list, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: set psci-com mail -- [include hyphens] 3. To leave psci-com, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: leave psci-com -- [include hyphens] Please allow up to 24 hours for these commands to activate. Remember that you will need to send commands using the same email address that you used to register on psci-com. To contact the Psci-com list owner, please send an email to: [log in to unmask] **********************************************************************