Dr Richard Holliman, The Open University’s Champion for Public Engagement with Research
Research with people at the centre
Champion’s blog; star date 2013.07.17. This is the blog of the OU’s RCUK-funded Catalyst, ‘An open research university‘. But our mission isn’t to boldly go. Rather, our three-year mission is to embed the principles, values and reflective practices of public engagement within the research culture of Open University researchers. This requires all OU researchers to think more strategically about how we plan our research.
This requires us to think (yet again, I know) about culture change…
“If you’re the University’s Champion for Public Engagement with Research can you tell me how many people it takes to change a university’s research culture?” I guess the obvious answer is, “I don’t know at the moment, but I do know that those involved really have to want to change.”