Our masterclasses have been designed to help you develop the necessary skills to create and deliver inclusive, meaningful and enjoyable engagement activities for you and your target public audiences.  

Dates for our Autumn 2024/Spring 2025 masterclasses will be published in August.

Choose from a range of practical sessions depending on your experience in public engagement and your interest area:   

List of Engagement Masterclasses available

Core Engagement Masterclass

For staff members and doctoral students with little or no prior experience of public engagement, this session covers the key steps in planning and evaluating your own engagement activities to maximize your research impact.

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Communication in Engagement

This interactive session will enable you to build on your learnings from the core masterclass and practice techniques for effective communication, messaging, and tailoring to different public audiences.

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Engagement, Funding and Impact

This workshop will enable you to recognize engagement as a route to impact, how to evidence it and what funders in the UK are looking for around public engagement with research.

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Participatory Research

This masterclass will give you the opportunity to explore the benefits of engaging the public in participatory research, when it is appropriate to take this approach with your engagement and the key considerations.

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Engagement Ideas

This session will enable you to workshop ideas for your own public engagement activities by participating in collaborative, problem-solving and creative exercises.

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Digital Engagement

This session will build your confidence in engaging audiences online by exploring different digital tools and platforms and tips on how to evaluate digital engagement.

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Engagement with Controversial and Sensitive Issues

This session will cover practical tips for engaging audiences with controversial and/or sensitive areas of research, and the benefits of open conversations around research processes and scientific evidence.

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Other engagement training opportunities

 

Further training resources

External training providers

There are a number of organisations that run engagement training events and schemes – find out what's available.

Further training at Imperial

Ranging from social media skills to patient and public involvement (PPI), find out what other development opportunities are on offer at the College.

List of Engagement Masterclasses available this year

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Book one-to-one advice

Book a 30 minute one-to-one call with a member of the Public Engagement team to help answer your questions and discuss your engagement ideas. 

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