{"id":2,"date":"2013-07-12T17:31:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T17:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2015-09-07T16:55:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T16:55:35","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6067\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Blog_team.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Blog_team-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"The Engaging Research Blog Team: l-r Trevor Collins, Ann Grand and Richard Holliman\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Blog_team-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Blog_team-150x78.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Blog_team-624x324.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Blog_team.jpg 807w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6067\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Engaging Research Blog Team: l-r Trevor Collins, Ann Grand and Richard Holliman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is the Open University\u2019s Engaging Research blog.\u00a0 The aim of the blog is to raise the profile of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Engaged Research across the Open University<\/li>\n<li>The School-University Partnership Initiative (SUPI) project, <a title=\"Engaging opportunities\" href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/about\/teaching-and-learning\/esteem\/engaging-opportunities\" target=\"_blank\">Engaging opportunities<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alongside the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/about\/teaching-and-learning\/esteem\/engaging-opportunities\" target=\"_blank\">SUPI project website<\/a> we will also use the blog as a channel to keep people informed about developments with other relevant projects and initiatives.\u00a0 But we hope the blog will be much more than that.<\/p>\n<p>Engaged research and school-university partnership work means different things to different people.\u00a0 We\u2019re keen to start (or to continue) conversations about these related areas and the work we\u2019ve already done with Open University researchers.\u00a0 The blog provides an online forum for some of these conversations.\u00a0 At a basic level if you have comments about the blog, we&#8217;d love to hear from you.\u00a0 And if you have resources that you&#8217;ve found valuable in the past, please contact us if you&#8217;re interested in sharing them.\u00a0 But we hope the blog will also provide a route through which you can help to shape and frame the work you think will be valuable for us to do going forwards.<\/p>\n<p>But don\u2019t fret if you prefer a face-to-face conversation.\u00a0 We\u2019re happy to have those too and we\u2019ll use the blog to advertise events and to take soundings for the types of activities you\u2019d like to see in the future.<\/p>\n<p>And we\u2019ll be inviting guest posts from around the university. \u00a0This will provide a space for researchers to share and showcase their ideas and concerns about public engagement with research.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The core editing group for the blog includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/?p=235\" target=\"_blank\">Trevor Collins<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/?p=265\" target=\"_blank\">Ann Grand<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/?p=246\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Holliman<\/a>. If you would like to contribute to the blog, please contact Richard Holliman (email: Richard.Holliman@open.ac.uk).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the Open University\u2019s Engaging Research blog.\u00a0 The aim of the blog is to raise the profile of: Engaged Research across the Open University The School-University Partnership Initiative (SUPI) project, Engaging opportunities. Alongside the SUPI project website we will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/?page_id=2\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6068,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/6068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}