This workshop will provide you with an introduction to Patient & Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) basics and how it has applications to support impact work in all types of research activity, with case studies from Bath. It will give you lots of ideas and signposting about how to get started working with the PPIE principles in your research.

Presenters

Rob Cooper is the Upstream Engagement Manager in the Public Engagement Unit. He is leading on a programme of work supporting Upstream Engagement which is working with communities and individuals in the early stages of research to help create more impactful and equitable research.

Dr Lisa Austin oversees research within the Department for Health. She is also the Bath and Northeast Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Research Manager, managing local NHS research in primary and community care. With her colleagues she runs a PPI network called PARTICIPATE and is experienced supporting research with PPIE within applied health and care.

Ian Taverner, Chair of the CRIISP Public Advisory Group, a consortium research project focusing on how people perceive pain and how others affect their pain, along with wider social & environmental influences on pain. The integration of PPIE principles from project planning to research and dissemination was critical to the success of this 5-year project. Ian has lived experience of chronic pain and is a successful author, writer & cooking coach, aka Mr Cookfulness

The session is open to all staff and postgraduate students. Advance registration is required, with lunch provided for those attending in person.

Lunch with Impact workshops
This workshop is part of a series supported by the University’s ESRC and EPSRC Impact Acceleration Accounts (IAAs) along with the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF), to support researchers in identifying, generating, evidencing and achieving impact from their research. Sessions are designed to enable attendees to apply the information, knowledge and tools to their own research.