Societal engagement

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 the College'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.

Our key engagement themes

Community engagement

Schools outreach

Public engagement with research

Patient and public involvement

Two Imperial researchers demonstrate a robot at Imperial Festival

Ways to get involved

Resources

The President's Awards ceremony

Celebrating engagement

Imperial's engagement at a glance

Two young children listen to an Imperial researcher at the Festival

Over 20,000 visitors attended our 2017 Imperial Festival, and over 1,000 staff supported the event

Members of the public look at a map at our Around The World Fringe

In 2017, 3,500 visitors joined us for our 5 public Fringe events

A patient discussion group at the Patient Experience Research Centre

300+ researchers, clinicians and members of the public have been trained in patient and public involvement since 2015

School students take part in a hands-on science workshop

Over 16,800 teachers registered to Reach Out CPD, our continuing professional development resource (October 2017)

School students take part in a Sutton Trust summer school on campus

6,800 school students have taken part in over 280 outreach activities (over academic year 2016/17)

A student volunteers with community gardening activities in Green Week

Our students volunteer with over 150 community and charity partners per year

A mother and daughter take part in a community workshop at The Invention Rooms

Over 7,000 attendees at White City Community pop-up events (October 2017)

A young girl flies a drone at a community workshop

100+ participants have so far taken part in our White City pilot community programmes (October 2017)