Friday, February 2nd, 11:30pm to 1:00pm – Hadley Room, Campus Center, Lunch will be served.
The Public Engagement Project at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is celebrating the recently released book, Making Research Matter: A Psychologist’s Guide to Public Engagement (Linda Tropp, Editor), with a panel and open discussion on how to engage effectively with diverse public audiences. Including book contributors from on- and off-campus and UMass faculty from the Public Engagement Project, this panel will highlight the many ways academics can become engaged scholars and share insights about effective strategies for engaging diverse audiences across a range of social issues, public domains, and institutional contexts.