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Engagement@Manchester: Collaborative Practice

24 Oct 2025

Join our community of practice to share, learn and connect on Wednesday, 26 November 12.30pm – 1.40pm at 3.204 University Place, Oxford Road (in-person).

Are you interested in public engagement? Would you like to hear and share some inspiring ideas and practice? Do you want to network with other like-minded engaging people? Then come along to this series of informal sessions exploring different aspects of public engagement.

Open to: All University colleagues, students and community partners.

We are keen to encourage new people to take their first steps in public engagement, as well as support those with more experience.

In this shared practice session, we’ll explore collaborative practice or ways of working collaboratively with others through two short case studies sharing practice from recent projects, a Q&A and time to connect with other attendees.  You can also find out more forthcoming public engagement opportunities.

Our speakers/projects include:

  • Ilina Serafimova who will join us to talk about VoiceIn a new mobile app that makes it easier for people to contribute to health research in a quick and simple way. VoiceIn was co-designed with and by young people, patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) leads, and mental health researchers across the country. It is a national initiative, led by the University to support PPIE in health research, funded by the UKRI Medical Research Council and NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Greater Manchester. 
  • Led by activist and poet Tina Cribbin and academic researcher Niamh Kavanagh, the over-researched communities project explored how more equitable relationships can be sustained between the University and the neighbouring Hulme community. Working creatively through art with a group of older women living in Hume over time, the project offered novel insight into methodological and ethical approaches for the ‘doing’ of research in Hulme that face different precarities and challenges, emphasising slow and ‘gentle’ ways of working together with creative approaches that nurture patience and trust. 

We will supply tea/coffee and cake, and you are welcome to bring your lunch along to the session.

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