3. What’s next for staff training?

Another key focus for us is ensuring people are recognised for their engagement work. As such we’ve been looking for ways teaching staff applying for HEA Fellowship to map their engagement practice onto the UKPSF Framework. So far we’ve targeted The Academic and Professional Pathway for Teaching Excellence (APP TE) programme and The Academic and Professional Pathway for Experienced Staff (APP EXP) programme. These two routes to Fellowship work in different ways and we’ve tailored our approach accordingly. Working with the Pedagogy of Engagement Learning Circle we produced an activity for staff going through the APP TE Framework to work through as part of their structured learning. For APP EXP we instead chose to work with programme Mentors to highlight the potential areas engagement could feature in the UKPSF and encourage them to discuss this further with their students.

What’s next for staff training?

c Continue to plan and promote a diverse training programme to all staff, ensuring this ties in with the upcoming plans for events such as the Resonate

Campus Festival and Pint of Science. c Develop more high-quality resources for the Skills

Festival – rolling out our review process that ensures this is high quality and relevance to the wider context of public engagement at Warwick. c Build pathways through the Skills Festival that result in formal certificates of recognition for those looking for a more structured online learning experience. c Continue to grow our presence in existing development programmes, ensuring public engagement is a built in and natural part of an academic’s professional development programme. c Work with the Staff Training Learning Circle to launch an engagement focused mentoring programme for staff and students.