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Public Engagement

Two-way dialogue with public and patient groups provides opportunities for mutual learning and ensures that we are tackling the clinical challenges that matter most.

The Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences work across a wide range of public engagement activities, from patient advisory groups and co-produced patient events to national festivals and artist collaborations.

It's what allows us to broaden, exchange, and test knowledge and experience, shaping research with new and lived insights. It also improves how our research is translated, making sure that our work is informed and accepted by those it effects.

On these pages you will find a range of our current and previous projects, as well as information about how we support this activity through a supportive environment for public engagement and our dedicated strategy, linked to the centre's key aims.

If you're interested in taking part, or just hearing more about our work, just let us know.

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Public Engagement Projects

WEISS works across a wide range of public engagement activities, from patient advisory groups and co-produced patient events to national festivals and schools workshops.while we can't provide summaries of them all, read about a selection of past projects here.

Staff Resources

Public Engagement Strategy

Learn more about the dedicated public engagement strategy that directs our work at the Centre. It was developed in consulation with our members and is overseen by an advisory board with experience of research, patient involvement and public engagement.

Practice Sharing


Over the past few years, we have been creating and facilitating arts/science collaborations as part of our public engagement work.  Over time our approach has coalesced into a solid methodology we use when undertaking such projects.  This booklet is intended as a practical guide for Public Engagement professionals and anyone else who seeks to create or manage an arts/science collaboration.

Case Studies

Engaged Arts at WEISS
Read more about some of the arts-based public engagement projects undertaken at the Centre in 2020 and 2021. 

Science of Surgery
In April 2023, we welcomed over 500 members of the public to ‘Science of Surgery’, a fun-filled, interactive day of activities demonstrating how science and engineering at WEISS are changing surgery.

Nerve Injury Community Day
Co-produced between researchers, medical professionals, people with nerve injury and their families, this event in November 2019 brought people together to explore their experiences of living and working with nerve injury through workshops, talks and stalls.

Operative Birth Parent Group
A parent involvement group with people who have lived experience of assistive and operative birth (such as c-section, ventouse and forceps).