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Importance of Public Involvement Research

The Inclusive Involvement in Research theme are supporting a series of national events highlighting the important role of public involvement in research. The sessions will discuss findings from the variety of research within this theme and share different and effective methodologies for engaging with diverse communities.

Previous webinars

Session 1: Invisible Labour of Public Involvement 

The first in a series of ARC National events on Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) research took place on Thursday 5 December 2024 with over 100 delegates which included public involvement leads/facilitators, researchers and PPI Public members.

Read more about the first webinar here

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Session 2:  Emotions in Public Involvement

The second webinar in this series was hosted by ARC South London. Recognising the importance and challenges of emotions in public involvement, researchers and public members from the PPIE team at NIHR ARC South West Peninsula worked together to produce a conceptual review on Emotion in public involvement. Three members of this team Lauren AsareNaomi Morley and Julia Burton explored findings from the review in the webinar in an open discussion with the audience. 

Read more about the second webinar here.

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Session 3: Impact from Involvement

The third webinar in this series focused on impact from public involvement in research. It was hosted and chaired by ARC South West Peninsula (PenARC), with an engaging presentation by ARC North Thames PPI lead Will Lammons and public contributor Raj Mehta. Dr Stan Papoulias from ARC South London facilitated the discussion. Will and his coauthors recently published a narrative review of reviews on the impacts of PPIE. This webinar focused on the types and examples of impacts reported in these reviews, specifically the "categories" and "sub-categories" of impact that they describe. 

Read more about the third webinar here. 

Key input and responses from the chat

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