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Public Involvement and Community Engagement Workshop: Embedding PICE into Research Practice

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Delivered by the NIHR ARC North East and North Cumbria

Facilitated by: Dr Felicity Shenton – Public Involvement and Community Engagement Manager and Dr Angela Wearn – Public Involvement and Community Engagement Research Fellow

Aims of the session

To provide an introduction to public involvement and community engagement in health and social care research. The session will cover basic definitions, the underlying values and principles and will provide information, tools and resources to help you to embed PICE into your research practice. The session is for anyone interested in this area of work (students, research fellows, public/community advisors etc.)

 Content

  • National definitions of involvement, engagement and participation in research and the NIHR National Standards
  • How to identify, approach and engage members of the public and local communities
  • The Community Engagement Toolkit
  • Remuneration, training and support for public contributors
  • Identifying different roles for public members
  • An introduction to Co-production and Peer Research
  • The importance of impact, feedback and dissemination
  • Where to go for further information resources, tools etc.

 Q & A

There will be an opportunity for participants to ask questions about any aspect of public involvement and community engagement in health and social care research.

Please email [email protected] with any questions

Please use this link to book your place on this session.

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