Skip to main content View accessibility support page
  • Study
  • Research
  • Faculties
  • News and events
  • About
  • Get involved
  • Giving
  • Search

Website navigation

Skip to section navigation

Global site navigation

  • Study
    • Course search
    • Apply
    • Fees and funding
    • Student life
    • Visit
    • Help centre
    • Request info
    • International students
    • Executive education
    • Summer schools
  • Research
  • Faculties
    • Faculty of Engineering
    • Faculty of Medicine
    • Faculty of Natural Sciences
    • Imperial Business School
    • Administrative and support services
  • News and events
    • News
    • What's on
    • Imperial Stories
    • Great Exhibition Road Festival
    • Imperial Magazine
    • Imperial Lates
    • Graduation
  • About
    • President
    • Provost
    • Imperial Strategy
    • Academic Strategy
    • Imperial Global
    • Sustainable Imperial
    • Governance
    • Campuses
    • Our academics
    • Jobs at Imperial
  • Get involved
    • Giving
    • Schools outreach
    • Imperial Global Summer School
    • Societal engagement
    • Volunteering and outreach
    • Women at Imperial
  • Giving

User links navigation

  • For staff
  • Current students
  • Imperial for business
  • For schools
  • Alumni
Be inspired

The Centre for Societal Engagement at Imperial navigation

  • About us
    • The Centre for Societal Engagement
    • Engagement framework and goals
    • Our supporters
    • Why engage?
    • Meet the teams
    • Engagement networks
    • Contact us
    • Evaluation and Impact
  • Resources and case studies
    • Engagement toolkit
    • Engagement with research highlight stories
      • Professor Sara Rankin on science pop-up shops
      • Dr James Rosindell on the OneZoom Tree of Life
      • Professor Helen Ward on patient engagement
      • Professor Roger Kneebone on enlightening collaborations
      • Professor Simon Taylor-Robinson on international engagement
      • Dr Morgan Beeby on the Imperial Festival
      • Sensorium at Imperial Festival
      • Improving search and rescue through citizen science
    • Patient involvement and engagement
    • Poet in residence
  • Training
    • Engagement Academy
      • Academy Participants
    • Engagement Masterclasses
      • Core Engagement Masterclass: Exploring, Planning and Evaluating Engagement
      • Communication in Engagement Masterclass
      • Engagement Ideas Masterclass
      • Engagement with Controversial and Sensitive Issues Masterclass
      • Engagement, Funding and Impact Masterclass
      • Digital Engagement Masterclass
      • Participatory Research Masterclass
    • Engagement Day
      • Engagement Day 2018
      • Engagement Day 2020
      • Engagement Week 2021
      • Engagement Day 2022
      • Engagement Day 2023
    • External training opportunities
    • Engagement skills and attributes map
    • Training and internships for students
    • Training for staff
  • Funding
    • Societal Engagement Seed Fund
      • 2017 Seed Fund Recipients (Round One)
      • 2017 Seed Fund Recipients (Round Two)
      • 2018 Seed Fund Recipients
      • 2019 Seed Fund Recipients
      • Rapid response seed fund
      • 2020 Rapid Response Seed Fund Recipients
      • 2021 Rapid Response Seed Fund Recipients
      • 2022 Seed Fund Recipients
      • 2023 Seed Fund Recipients
      • 2024 Seed Fund Recipients
    • Participatory Research Seed Fund
      • 2022 Recipients
    • Funding Opportunities
    • Collaboration Kickstarter
      • 2024 Collaboration Kickstarter Recipients
  • Get involved
    • Key areas for engagement
    • Public Engagement 1-to-1 Advice
    • Societal Engagement Reading Group
    • VOICE at Imperial
    • Public and community engagement events
    • External events and activities
    • Societal Engagement Newsletter
    • Volunteer with us
      • About volunteering
      • Current opportunities
    • Societal Engagement staff survey 2019
    • Work with us
  • Celebrating engagement
    • The President's Awards
    • External awards and prizes
    • List of Award winners
  • Engage at home
  • Public and Community Engagement
  • International Relations Office
  • Outreach

The Centre for Societal Engagement at Imperial

Empowering people through engagement with our research

Read our strategy

Top Links

  • Engagement Toolkit
  • Sign up to our newsletter
  • Funding
  • Training
  • Great Exhibition Road Festival

We are delighted to introduce the Centre for Societal Engagement at Imperial. Launching in 2024/25, the Centre will ignite curiosity for STEMB in society, driving transformative inclusion on a local, national, and global scale.

Little girl engaging with an activity

Sign up to the Societal Engagement newsletter to be the first to know about engagement opportunities as well as funding and training and engagement news from across the College.

Researcher talking to an Imperial Lates attendee

Discover our engagement toolkit full of guides on all things engagement: from engaging family audiences to evaluating your engagement work, our toolkit has everything you need for high-quality engagement activity.

We have a range of societal engagement-related training opportunities, which are designed to support staff and students in developing high quality engagement work. Take a look at what we have available for you.

Astronaut with thumbs up on Exhibition Road

Need money for an engagement project you want to run? We've got you covered. Take a look at the funding opportunities for staff and students undertaking engagement activities with the public, or are looking to do so.

News

More news
  • news

Meet the first recipients of the Collaboration Kickstarter fund

30 April 2025

  • news

Exhibition explores Imperial’s Creative Connections with history

23 April 2025

10 April 2025

What The Tech?! People-powered technology engagement

13 March 2025

Imperial Lates: The Futuristic Finale

23 January 2025

Imperial College London and W12 Together Spread Festive Cheer for Care…

Events

All Events
  • event
  • Seminar

28 May 2025, 13.00–14.00

Dr. Frederic Bertley in conversation with the Fleming Initiative

Online only
Two Imperial researchers demonstrate a robot at Imperial Festival

Ways to get involved

  • Events
  • Training and masterclasses
  • Volunteering opportunities
  • External events and activities
  • Sign up to our Societal Engagement newsletter

Resources

  • Funding
  • Networks and contacts
  • Societal Engagement Seed Fund
  • Engagement with research: Highlight stories
  • Engagement Toolkit
The President's Awards ceremony

Celebrating engagement

  • President's Awards for Excellence in Societal Engagement
  • External awards

What is societal engagement?

A young child participates in a science workshop

About engagement

Find out how we engage with the public – including schools, patients and local communities – to ensure that our education and research benefits society.

The Sensorium at Imperial Festival

Imperial's aims for engagement

Learn about Imperial's Societal Engagement Framework, goals and achievements so far.

A family listen watch an Imperial reseacher undertake a demonstration at Imperial Festival

What does engagement look like?

Hear what our researchers as well as members of the public, schools, patients and community audiences have to say about their engagement experiences.

Useful Links

Popular links

  • Blackboard
  • Contact the Service Desk
  • Jobs
  • Library services
  • Outlook email online

Faculties

  • Engineering
  • Medicine
  • Natural Sciences
  • Imperial Business School

Directories

  • Admin and support services
  • Networks and Centres
  • Research groups
  • Search all staff

Partners

  • Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre
  • Imperial College Health Partners
  • Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
  • Imperial Consultants

College Information

Imperial College London

Address

Imperial College London
South Kensington Campus
London SW7 2AZ, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7589 5111

Facebook X, formerly known as Twitter YouTube LinkedIn Instagram TikTok

Site Information

  • Sitemap
  • Accessibility
  • Modern slavery statement
  • Privacy notice
  • Use of cookies
  • Report incorrect content
  • Log in

© 2025 Imperial College London