Engaged Research Seminar 3: Watch Back Now

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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Engaged Research Seminar 2: Watch Back Now

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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Engaged Research Seminar 1: Watch Back Now

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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