UKRI’s vision is for an outstanding research and innovation system that gives everyone the opportunity to contribute and to benefit, enriching lives locally, nationally and internationally. Achieving this vision requires a significant shift in how we, as the research and innovation community, think about engagement, and indeed how we think about research and innovation. We need to move from research and innovation and society to research and innovation in society.

Join us at this panel event to hear UKRI CEO Ottoline Leyser, Ben Ward, CEO of Winchester Science centre and Dr Kathryn Townsend-Woods, LifeLab Programme Manager, discuss the importance of thinking in new ways about the relationship between research and society.

In the panel discussion Professor Dame Ottoline and guests will discuss how members of society can successfully engage in the research process. The panel discussion will be chaired by Professor John Holloway (Associate Vice-President, Interdisciplinary Research, University of Southampton). Attendees will have the opportunity to ask the panellists questions on public engagement and societal participation in research.

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