1. Kate Simpson – 3 rd year PhD student  PhD Aim: To identify whether energy efficient refurbishments are successful, from the householders’ perspective.

2. Public engagement: Household energy data

3. Public engagement: Festivals Einstein’s Garden: Green ManNatures Tent: Wilderness Busking at Cheltenham Science Festival

4. Public engagement: Film making

5. Public engagement: Bright Club (10 th July 2014!!)

6. RCUK (2014) “Research Councils UK (RCUK) believe that engaging the public with research helps empower people, broadens attitudes and ensures that the work of universities and research institutes is relevant to society and wider social concerns.” EPSRC (2014) “By further integrating public engagement activities across all of our research and training priorities we aim to build a high quality portfolio that is more closely linked to the research we fund, encompasses a greater section of the research community and ultimately will have the potential for much greater impact than a dedicated funding scheme.” “UKERC's research and engagement activities will help to inform policy development, industry strategies and wider energy debates.” (UKERC Research Director, Professor Jim Watson, 2014) Research council perspectives