The PCER Advisory Board

The PCER Advisory Board (AB) was established in 2022. It combines the previous Public Engagement with Research (PER) Academic Advisory Network and PER Advisory Group.

The Board is chaired by Professor Anneke Lucassen, who was appointed as Academic Champion for Public and Community Engagement with Research in October 2024. Their responsibilities are set out by their Terms of Reference.

The Board is a sub-committee of the University’s Knowledge Exchange and Impact Sub-Committee (KEISC). As Academic Champion for PCER and Chair of the PCER AB, Professor Lucassen sits on KEISC.

Membership of the Advisory Board

• Chair: Professor Anneke Lucassen
• Local-Global Engagement Officer:  Professor Alex Betts
• Head of the Researcher Hub:  Dr Rachel Bray
• SSD academic representative:  Jacqueline Broadhead
• Director of Research Strategy & Policy Unit:  Dr Tanita Casci
• MSD Public and Policy Engagement Facilitator:  Naomi Gibson
• Humanities academic representative:  Professor Christine Gerrard
• Director of Innovation & Engagement:  Dr Olga Kozlova
• MPLS Head of Public and Community Engagement with Research:  Dr Michaela Livingstone-Banks
• Social Sciences Division Head of Engagement:  Aileen Marshall-Brown
• Humanities Head of Public Engagement:  Dr Victoria McGuinness
• Public Engagement Facilitator Network (PEFN) Co-chair:  Dr Hanna Smyth
• GLAM academic representative:  vacant
• GLAM Head of Research and Impact Management:  Dr Harriet Warburton
• College representative:  vacant
• MPLS academic representative:  vacant
• MSD academic representative:  vacant (NB: Professor Lucassen is in MSD)

The central PCER team attends PCER Advisory Board meetings. They act as the secretariat, present recent work, listen, contribute to the discussion, and take advice.