Why?

10.45 Coffee and Registration

11.00 Introduction

11.10 Survey of Hopes for and Fears of considering Quality in Public Engagement

11.20 How others define and embed quality in practice (presentation)QA in teaching and learning (Gordon McDougal, UoE)GLO – (Susanne Spicer, Manchester Beacon for Public Engagement)Summary of: NVQ’s, EVAL, Funders, Heritage Lottery Fund, Learning Outside the Classroom (Dan Hillier, ROE)

12.20 Personal Reflections

12.30 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (breakout groups)The Good – things we can use from previous examplesThe Bad – things we want to avoid, can learn fromThe Ugly – things that aren’t covered

13.15 Lunch

Programme - AM

14.00 What is Quality in PE? (Breakout groups)

14.45 How can we embedd quality? (breakout groups)

15.30 Coffee availableReview questions raised from hopes and fears

15.45 Next steps (whole group discussion)

16.15 Wrap up

16.30 Close

Programme - PM

Survey of your Hopes and Fears in Considering Quality in Public

Engagement

How others define and embed quality in practice:

• QA in teaching and learning (Gordon McDougall, University of Edinburgh)

• GLO (Suzanne Spicer, Manchester) • Summary of other approaches (Dan Hillier, Royal Observatory)

Personal reflections

From your own experience, what are your three key examples of recognising/embedding quality in public engagement.

3 post-it notes per person.

Please write one example per post-it note.

The Good, the Bad, the Ugly.

The Good: things we can use from previous examples of embedding quality in

practice

The Bad: things we want to avoid, can learn from

The Ugly: things which weren’t covered

The Good, the Bad, the Ugly.•Discuss and record your thoughts (15 MINUTES at first station)

•Move clockwise to next station

•Read previous group’s comments. Annotate, agree, disagree, add different perspectives (10 MINUTES)

•Move clockwise to final station. Annotate, agree, disagree, add different perspectives (5 MINUTES)

What is Quality in Public Engagement? from the perspective of

•Public Engagement Practitioners

•Public Engagement Activities

•Public Engagement Programmes

3 breakout groups, each group focuses on one of the above perspectives (30 MINUTES).

Summary from each group

How can we embed quality?

• at practitioner level

• at programme level

• at institutional level

3 breakout groups, each group focuses on all of the above perspectives (30 MINUTES).

Summary from each group

Coffee (phew!!!)

Review the questions raised from

hopes and fears

Next steps

Whole group discussion

And finally…..

A big thank-you to you all

from the

Edinburgh Beltane Evaluation Working Group.