{"id":1087,"date":"2021-10-14T15:25:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T14:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/?page_id=1087"},"modified":"2025-01-21T20:40:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T20:40:48","slug":"local-community","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/local-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]By engaging the public with our research we\u2019ll foster better understanding of research, facilitate participation in informed debate and collaborative research, and create opportunities for knowledge exchange with audiences in our local area. We do this by engaging with members of the public through an events programme, working with external partners and organisations, and \u00a0involving people as active participants in our research.[\/vc_column_text][vc_masonry_grid post_type=&#8221;post&#8221; max_items=&#8221;-1&#8243; style=&#8221;lazy&#8221; element_width=&#8221;6&#8243; item=&#8221;2026&#8243; grid_id=&#8221;vc_gid:1732009195366-efc16a6d-846c-9&#8243; taxonomies=&#8221;45&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our community does not stop at the boundaries of our campuses, and engaging people with our research has a role to play in this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":384,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"coauthors":[87],"class_list":["post-1087","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Community Engagement - Engagement and Impact<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/local-community\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Community Engagement - Engagement and Impact\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Our community does not stop at the boundaries of our campuses, and engaging people with our research has a role to play in this.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/local-community\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Engagement and Impact\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-01-21T20:40:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/205\/2021\/05\/reia-2018-involve-reading-2050.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"961\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/local-community\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/local-community\/\",\"name\":\"Community Engagement - Engagement and Impact\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-10-14T14:25:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-01-21T20:40:48+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/local-community\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/local-community\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/local-community\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Community Engagement\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/\",\"name\":\"Engagement and Impact\",\"description\":\"Research at the University of Reading\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Community Engagement - Engagement and Impact","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/local-community\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Community Engagement - Engagement and Impact","og_description":"Our community does not stop at the boundaries of our campuses, and engaging people with our research has a role to play in this.","og_url":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/local-community\/","og_site_name":"Engagement and Impact","article_modified_time":"2025-01-21T20:40:48+00:00","og_image":[{"width":961,"height":1200,"url":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/205\/2021\/05\/reia-2018-involve-reading-2050.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Estimated reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/local-community\/","url":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/local-community\/","name":"Community Engagement - Engagement and Impact","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/#website"},"datePublished":"2021-10-14T14:25:44+00:00","dateModified":"2025-01-21T20:40:48+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/local-community\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/local-community\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/local-community\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Community Engagement"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/#website","url":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/","name":"Engagement and Impact","description":"Research at the University of Reading","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2216,"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1087\/revisions\/2216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}