Find out the latest from our college MVLS Engagement Team, including funding opportunities and events.

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Awards

MVLS Engagement Awards – Shortlist

We are delighted to announce that from an impressive range of nominations, eight projects have been selected for shortlist in our MVLS Engagement Awards 2021. These awards celebrate the diverse public engagement taking place within the college and seek to recognise and reward individuals and teams who successfully engage the public with our world changing research. Read more about this in this month's HAWKEYE...

The Royal Society Awards

Nominations close Friday 25 February 2022. Four of these awards are targeted at public engagement and inclusivity in STEM.

Funding 

 SWEA Awards Funding Success

Two MVLS lead projects have been successfully secured funding in the final round of ScotPEN Wellcome Engagement Awards.

  • Parasite Street Science – Annette MacLeod, Biodiversity Animal Health & Comp Medicine. Total awarded: £71k
    Parasite Street Science will tackle the serious issue of broken trust between scientists, health professionals and local communities affected by sleeping sickness in Malawi. Working with local community members, scientists, medical practitioners/ health professionals and theatre practitioners to facilitate multi directional knowledge exchange.
  • What makes viruses tick? – Benjamin Brennan, CVR Total awarded: £67k
    Ticks and the diseases they carry have become an increasing concern in Scotland. By raising awareness and engaging people about ticks and tick-borne diseases the aim is to open dialogue and empower audiences to make informed decisions about safely accessing the outdoors.
MVLS Engagement with Research Fund

The fund is now OPEN. We offer flexible awards (up to £2500) to all MVLS staff and postgraduate research students, in support of research-related public engagement activity and skills development. We are happy to work with researchers to develop engagement applications to this and any fund. 

Training

UofG Staff Public Engagement Training held via Zoom and booked on CoreHR
Introduction to Public Engagement with Research – MVLS Moodle

This self-guided training explores how we define public engagement at UofG and why engaging the public is such a vital part of the research process. Suitable for all but of greatest interest to research staff and PGRs.

PGR Public Engagement Training

Led by Public & Community Engagement Advisor Dr Zara Gladman. Wednesday 2 February 10:30 to 12:30

Public engagement events/opportunities

  • Curious About the Human Body
    MVLS researchers will be supporting the Glasgow Science Centre’s fourth digital festival – Curious About: The Human Body – launching on 22 February 2022 with "Live" online sessions 9 to 11 March 2022.
  • Pint of Science – 9 to 11 May 2022
    The Glasgow Pint of Science team welcome speaker and volunteers interested in supporting these fun research talks in pubs. If interested contact pos.glasgow@gmail.com 

MVLS Engagement Team
College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences
University of Glasgow
www.gla.ac.uk/mvls-engage  


First published: 28 June 2018