Workshop: Beyond the one-off: embedding and valuing university and science centre/museums partnerships
Valuing a range of benefits that come from long term university / science centre relationships, this session explores three different approaches to these place-based relationships, sharing the learning and discussing the different strategic approaches to partnership, from science centre and researcher perspectives. Helen joins Josh Barker, University of Leicester & National Space Centre and Rebecca Hill, Centre of the Cell for this workshop.
Biography
Helen Featherstone, PhD, is the Head of Public Engagement at the University of Bath, Public Engagement Unit. She works across the university supporting engaged research and creating the conditions for engaged research to flourish. The Public Engagement Unit’s work operates across four areas: Doing Public Engagement, Learning about Public Engagement, Celebrating Public Engagement and Leading on Public Engagement. Prior to this, Helen was doing similar work at the University of Exeter and has also been a post-doc researcher at UWE, Bristol looking at the publics' roles in public engagement. Helen continues to supervise project students on the MSc Science Communication course at UWE.
Helen is also a freelance public engagement consultant specialising in generating insight for the sector, mentoring teams and delivering training. Alongside her university, research, teaching, and freelance experience, Helen has extensive experience in practical STEM engagement activities primarily in interactive Science and Discovery Centres.
In her 20+ years career, Helen has been responsible for all aspects of public engagement delivery, research and mobilisation including fundraising, peer reviewing, project management, content and event delivery, collaborative working and evaluation.