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From ‘Connecting Histories’ to ‘Think Corner’: academic reflections on a journey through public engagement with research

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From ‘Connecting Histories’ to ‘Think Corner’: academic reflections on a journey through public engagement with research

Enhance our research power

Provide our students with a distinctive, high quality experience

Sustain our financial strength and use it purposely

Enhance our performance as an ‘engaged university’

Be the destination of choice amongst our peers

Academic EngagementCareers & Employability

WellbeingEngagement and Accessibility

Investing in our Cultural Assets

Research and Cultural Collections:The Danford Collection of West African Art and Artefacts

Winterbourne House and Botanic Garden

The Barber Institute of Fine Arts

Lapworth Museum of Geology

425 million year old Wenlock Limestone from Dudley

Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections

Community Day

Arts and Science Festival

Exhibitions as Research output

Cultural Intermediation and the Creative Economy

‘Translation and

Translanguaging:

Investigating Linguistic and

Cultural Transformations in

Superdiverse Wards in Four

UK Cities’

AHRC : Translating Cultures

Voices of War and Peace: the Great War and its Legacy

First World War Engagement Centre

The STEAM Room: visualisation

Knowledge is not a goal in itself, but a path to wisdom; it bestows not privilege so much as duty, not power so much as responsibility. And it brings with it a desire to

learn even as one teachs, to teach even as one learns.

Summary of the Roles of the Co-ordinating Centres

Artists in Residence at the University