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Have you engaged the public with your research this year? Please let us know by 31 October

02 Oct 2024

We’re approaching the deadline to submit this year’s data for the Higher Education Business-Community Interaction Survey (HEBCIS).

This is information we’re required to submit annually to HESA around how our academic staff engages with the public and communicates their research outside of academia. It looks at public lectures, exhibitions, museum education, performance arts and “other” (which includes family events like the Community Festival, or media appearances). The data we submit as part of our HESA return directly impacts the amount of funding we receive from Research England, as well as our performance in the Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF).

Many thanks if you’ve already completed the central team’s reporting form, sent information by email, or logged your activities directly on Pure. If an academic staff member in your School/Department/Institute has delivered some public engagement between 1 August 2023 and 31 July 2024, and you don’t think it has already been logged, please let us know about it by 31 October.

Note that we don’t need to know about any work with schools or colleges, or our own students. Talks at conferences only need to be included if it was a session open to the general public. We can only report on academic staff time, not including events delivered by PGRs, undergrads, or PS/technical staff.

There are a couple of ways you can report on this information:

  • Complete this Qualtrics form
  • Add brief information to the spreadsheet attached and email it back to me
  • If you’ve already reported this within your School/Department/Institute, please just let me know by email reply who you sent it to previously.

We’re conscious of wanting to get as much data as we can while not putting an admin burden on academic staff – while it’s helpful for us to have extra information so we can check we haven’t double-counted the same event, you can also send a summary like “I delivered 5 one-hour public lectures this year, none of them charged for entry, they reached a total of 600 people”.

If you want to see more information on what data HESA asks us for, please refer to the guidance. If you have any questions, please email Roz Webster - Social Responsibility and Environmental Sustainability Manager at roz.webster@manchester.ac.uk