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Missed the Previous Events in this Seminar Series or Can't Attend in Person? Find out about the web access options here: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/news/scd/publicengagement/#Previous seminars
£75 registration fee* (or £35 for students / unwaged). Lunch, tea and coffee are included in the registration fee.
-Places are limited for this event and are awarded on a first come, first served basis.
*Discounts available if registering for multiple seminars within the series. (see booking page)
*Concessionary places are available (submit a short application to [log in to unmask] explaining circumstances). If cost is a barrier to attendance, please do not hesitate to apply.
Recordings and related resources from seminar events that have already taken place can be accessed for the same cost as the webinar option (£20 per seminar, or £10 for students / unwaged)
These events include:
'Evaluating Impacts: Core Issues and Debates'
'Surveying impact: Using Questionnaires to Evaluate Impact' (Warwick University campus version)
'Questions of Quality: Qualitative methods of evaluating impacts - focus groups, interviews and ethnographic approaches'
After several requests, we are offering a streaming, online 'webinar' option for individuals who cannot travel to attend the Warwick University Seminar Series: 'Evaluating Impacts of Public Engagement and Non-Formal Learning'. Each webinar will feature presentation and suggested reading materials, live presentations streaming from London / University of Warwick, a web moderator, and opportunities to interact with the presenters, to pose questions or make comments. Webinars will be archived and remain available to participants following the seminars. The registration fee is £20 (or £10 for students / unwaged). Please register to join your colleagues in live discussion with others from across the globe!
Discounts available if registering for multiple webinar versions of seminars within the series. (see website)
Concessionary places are available (submit short application to [log in to unmask] explaining circumstances). If cost is a barrier to attendance, please do not hesitate to apply.
This seminar series brings together leading researchers and practitioners to discuss evaluation of impacts in public engagement and non-formal learning. These seminars will address how museums, festivals, zoos, universities, science centres, galleries, schools and other organisations with an interest in engagement, learning or communication can use good quality evaluation evidence to understand and enhance their impacts. Both practical and conceptual issues will be considered, as each of the main evaluation research data collection and analytic tools are discussed in turn.
Running from November 2011 to August 2012, this seminar series offers insights, skills development and networking opportunities for those who currently, or are planning in future to, conduct or commission evaluations of impacts. It will also be highly valuable to those who commission or use evaluation and research evidence to inform their practice. Moreover, these seminars will help anyone interested in public engagement, communication or learning to be a ‘critical consumer’ of research on impacts. For further information, please contact Dr Eric Jensen: [log in to unmask]
The support of the University of Warwick, the British Science Association, the Dana Centre and the Wellcome Trust for this seminar series is gratefully acknowledged.
Dr Eric Jensen is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London / University of Cambridge and Associate Education Fellow at Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust. He is an experienced evaluation researcher, with numerous peer-reviewed publications on public engagement published in top ranked journals such as Public Understanding of Science and books such as Investigating Science Communication in the Information Age (Oxford University Press). He recently had commentaries published in the journal Natureand the British Science Association publication People & Science and forthcoming in the journal Visitor Studies on the urgent need for substantial improvements in the quality and sophistication of evaluation of impacts in the field of public engagement, informal learning and science communication.
Dr Jensen’s previous research projects include evaluation studies of impacts conducted at ZSL London Zoo, Durrell Wildlife Park, the Cambridge Science Festival and Festival of Ideas and the Fitzwilliam Museum. Recent work with the Natural History Museum centred on developing an integrated evaluation and research framework that can ensure that rigorous long-term evaluation is integrated with the continual development of non-formal learning and public engagement practice.
At the University of Warwick, Dr Jensen lectures on the practice of social research and quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods research methods, as well as co-convening the MSc programme in Science, Media and Public Policy. Dr Jensen’s publications can be accessed at: http://warwick.academia.edu/EricJensen