Spotlight on... Dr Ben Littlefield

This week we meet Dr Ben Littlefield, Public Engagement Manager at UCL Culture, who chats to us about working on an ambitious new staff training programme and the time he was contracted by Quebec City, Canada, to film hovercrafts on the Solent. What is your role and what does it involve?. I am one of three Public Engagement Managers based in the Engagement team, part of UCL Culture. Each one of us balances core work such as managing our internal funding schemes or cross UCL training, with a particular focus on an area of UCL's activity. I focus on supporting and enabling colleagues across The School of the Built Environment (The Bartlett), the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MAPS). It is an incredibly exciting and varied role, one day working with a PhD candidate on how first to make contact with community groups, the next supporting major funding bids with engagement intertwined throughout the research. The thing I take the most joy from though is helping people tell their stories, learning from people different to them and sharing the curiosity and delight underpinning research.