Public and Community Engagement

As a signatory to the Manifesto for Public Engagement we adopt NCCPE's broad definition of public engagement which recognises how our work informs and is informed by stakeholders including the public, communities, government, and business. Public Engagement is central to all our activities whether research, enterprise, and knowledge exchange, leaning and teaching or wider university operation as an anchor institution with a civic mission.

Public and community engagement (P&CE) activities at Teesside University embody the university's stated mission to 'transform lives and economies', ensuring its work meets community needs, is shaped by society, and drives local economic growth and productivity.

Our community and public engagement strategy has four goals, which are to:

1. Involve publics, patients, communities, and businesses in shaping our research
2. Create opportunities for access to knowledge, expertise, facilities, people and influence, to benefit our communities and address material issues
3. Build capacity, strengthen public engagement, and develop best practice
4. Contribute to civic pride and deliver public benefit

P&CE priorities are embedded in our Research and Innovation (R&I), Enterprise and Knowledge Exchange (E&KE), and Community and Social Impact (CI&SI) strategies.

We have committed to:

• work in partnership with stakeholders and communities to ensure our research meets local and global needs (R&I)
• create connections between the university and the communities it serves, through meaningful interaction, collaboration, and inclusion (E&KE)
• build positive community relations and goodwill with all our publics (CI&SI).