Central PCER team

The University’s central PCER team are responsible for, among other things:

• setting the University’s public and community engagement with research strategy
• convening and acting as secretariat for the PCER Advisory Board
• reporting on institutional matters concerning public and community engagement with research (e.g., KEF)
• capturing the collective impact of the university’s public and community engagement with research efforts
• managing the PCER Fund and other centrally distributed funds (e.g., Research England’s Participatory Research Fund).

More generally, the team’s work is CLEAR; that is, they:

• Convene – bring relevant stakeholders across and beyond the University together
• Lead – set the direction of travel for public and community engagement with research, in consultation with the PCER Advisory Board and others
• Enhance – work to improve engagement practice across the University
• Activate – get engagement to happen, for example by providing funding and other opportunities
• Reflect/review – capture and learn from what’s happened to improve our practice and hold ourselves to account

The team

• Luke Caunt – PCER Team Administrator
• Dr Mat Hickman – Head of Public and Community Engagement with Research
• Rachel Piper – Community Engagement Coordinator
• Dr Francesca Richards – Engagement and Evaluation Coordinator (Secondment)
• Emma Sarcol – PCER Manager
• Faye Shelbourne - Engagement Grants and Project Coordinator
• Dr Annaleise Wood – Engagement and Evaluation Coordinator (maternity leave)

Or email [email protected] if you have a general question about public and community engagement with research at Oxford.