Event 05.12.2024

Importance of Public Involvement Research

No.1: Invisible Labour of Public Involvement

This is the first in a series of ARC National events on PPI research which aim to foster conversations and methodological development of patient and public involvement, inclusive involvement and co-production.

About this event

Dr Stan Papoulis and Dr Louca-Mai Brady will discuss their recent paper and blog post on the ‘invisible labour of public involvement’ and the role of the NIHR public involvement workforce (staff and researchers who support public involvement in research). The webinar will explore the importance of understanding the perspectives and needs of this workforce, both for embedding public involvement in health and care research, and in relation to new NIHR requirements for inclusive research and sustainable community engagement with a facilitated discussion.  There will be opportunities to have a discussion around the themes of the paper. 

Introduction

Dr Elspeth Mathie, Assistant Director, Centre of Research in Public Health and Community Care (CRIPACC), University of Hertfordshire.  Lead of Inclusive Involvement in Research, NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC), East of England. 

Speakers

Dr Stan Papoulias is Research Fellow at the Service User Research Enterprise (SURE) a unit comprised of researchers with direct experience of neurodiversity, trauma and mental distress at King's College London.  Stan uses qualitative and participatory methods to explore lived experience as a form of knowledge and the ways in which working conditions of staff shape research. Stan's work has included evaluating public involvement in different research organisations and they have collaborated in the production of a competency framework for the public involvement workforce. Stan is also involved in  developing a community based model for ethical research and is one of the commissioners in the Lancet Psychiatry Commission on Lived Experience in mental health research

Dr Louca-Mai Brady is a Reader in Youth Involvement and Health at the Centre for Public Health and Community Care, University of Hertfordshire, UK. Her research focuses on children and young people's participation in health and care services, co-production and public involvement, and qualitative, participative and creative research methods. As well as leading the Herts young people’s research advisory group and a participative project on young people’s participation in an Integrated Care System, she also supports young people’s involvement in research including a study on young Muslim women’s mental healthfood in special schools and a Europe-wide study on problematic internet use amongst teenagers.

https://go.herts.ac.uk/loucamai_brady   

https://bsky.app/profile/louca-mai.bsky.social

Organised by 

NIHR Applied Research Collaborations East of England, South London and PENARC. 

When: Thursday, 5 December 2024 

Where: Online, details will be provided upon registration

Time: 15.30-17.00

Who can attend: Anyone who is interested or involved in supporting, facilitating or leading Patient and Public Involvement. 

Free event

Click here to register for the webinar

Any enquires: R.Masrani@herts.ac.uk