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Community of Practice for Outreach and WP Practitioners

Lead Institution: University of Exeter
Collaborating with: Bournemouth University, Plymouth University

Project Outputs

The Community of Practice for Outreach and WP Practitioners' project resulted in a range of outputs detailed below:

1. Two events across 2011 which saw STEM outreach practitioners from across the university, FE college and third sectors coming together to share best practice and to learn from leaders in the field - Inspirational Outreach and Outreach and WP in Practice

2. The development of an online space for the community of practice to house key resources that can still be accessed, alongside a JISCMail group for outreach practitioners that remains

3. Seminar presentations to promote the project

4. A comparative report of access agreements across six key SW universities that identifies outreach and WP activities and plans for evaluation and monitoring of these activities across the institutions

5. A creative learning journey (CLJ) - a mixed media digital portfolio capturing progress of the project through audio, photography and video means. A precis of the CLJ can be viewed here; the full journey is on the CreativeSTEM website

6. Adoption of the community of practice project at three other universities - Bradford, Hertfordshire and Loughborough - resulting in 16 new and improved STEM outreach activities and strengthened links between these universities and local community organisations

7. A final report detailing the progress of the project, including challenges met and future sustainability

Crucially, the success of this project led to the formation of a national project that created multiple communities of practice across the country aimed at strengthening links between voluntary and community sector (third sector) organisations and universities in the field of STEM outreach. Further details here.

Staff involved

Dr Barrie Cooper
Project lead, University of Exeter

Chloe Cunningham
University of Exeter

Christine Keenan
Bournemouth University

Claire Gray
Plymouth University

Dawn Evans
University of Exeter

Emma Stephenson
University of Exeter

Jane Rowe
University of Exeter

Mitch Berger
University of Exeter