Introduction to PPIE in Research for Research Staff

Interactive session for research staff to build understanding of Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) in practice

Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement is the action of working with patients and the public to help shape and inform your work. Meaningful PPIE can help improve the quality of your work and help extend its benefits. This session will help you develop an understand of PPIE. We will explore different PPIE activities and their impact, barriers and enablers that exist, and provide examples of PPIE in action.

Learning Objectives

· Understand the terminology used in PPIE

· Increase their understanding of PPIE

· Be able to distinguish and identify PPIE activities, including those that are tokenistic

· Understand the importance of PPIE and its impact

· Be able to consider the barriers and enablers to meaningful PPIE