Dr Felicity Shenton
Public Involvement and Community Engagement (PICE) Manager
Email: [email protected]Dr Felicity Shenton is the Public Involvement and Community Engagement Manager for our NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) North East and North Cumbria (NENC) and has been in post since May 2020.
She has a background in children’s human rights, participatory research, peer research, co-production and service user involvement in education, research and service improvement.
Her professional career includes social work in an inner London Borough, managing an alternative to custody provision, Strategic Director of a children’s human rights project, Programme Manager of a regional social work teaching partnership, and completing a PhD exploring the use of physical restraint in custody with a team of young peer researchers.
Felicity has worked in the public sector and within the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise sector for over 40 years and has a long standing commitment to ensuring that the voices of those most excluded and alienated are heard and that they have real, meaningful impact.