In 2007, the University of East Anglia (UEA) successfully bid to host a Beacon for
Public Engagement. Funded by the UK higher education funding councils, Research
Councils UK (RCUK) and the Wellcome Trust, the four year pilot initiative aims to
achieve a more joined up and embedded approach to public engagement across
Higher Education.
 

The overall goal of this research study was to explore academic attitudes towards

public engagement and the factors affecting their involvement. This would provide a
baseline against which change in institutional culture, with regard to making public
engagement a greater part of university life, could be assessed. This work forms part
of a wider strategy to evaluate CUE East.
 
The research involved 55 interviews with a cross-section of academic and research
staff at UEA (hereafter academics). The research was carried out by The Research

Centre, City College Norwich, between May and December 2008.

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