Outreach and Widening Participation

‘Outreach’ encompasses activities that engage with a public audience, usually KS2 or KS3 school students, to positively influence their view of a subject/profession and hence affect their education and career choices.

During the London Engineering Project (LEP), a significant focus was given to developing high quality, high impact outreach methods and activities and these were delivered to a wide selection of students from groups often under-represented in engineering. These included females, certain BME groups, low socio-economic groups and those with no family history of HE participation.