Both Kerry and I have been busy the past few weeks. We have developed more process maps and also had meetings with a number of etxernal organisations. We are gaining some usefull insights that we aim to share at the appropriate time.
We took a day out from the project yesterday to attend the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE) Open House event at the watershed in Bristol. It was good to network with colleagues from other universities and research councils etc. The talks delivered by Manchester Beacon (Creating a Culture where Public Engagment is Valued) and Brighton CUPP (Working with Community Partners) were interesting and informative. Both of these projects provided some insight into some very novel ways of finding out what stakeholders require from university e.g. the VC of Manchester Met in Asda asking members of the general public who were shopping there, which provided us with some thoughts about how we engage with our customers to inform our CRM strategies and policies.
We also had an interesting discussion about who or what constitutes 'the Public' in Public Engagement - it was a question that was not resolved and raised further questions.
A further draft of the employer interactions Mandmap has been produced. There are likely to be further amendments required as further input is received. However, I thought I would share where we currently are with staff in Newport and the other JISC projects.
Lee