PPIE Training Programme | How to Engage, Undertake and Deliver Equitable Research with People Seeking Asylum and Refugees

We are delighted to welcome Beauty Tshuma of Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust (TEWV) to lead the next session in our PPIE training programme.

 

Session Information 

 

Refugees and Asylum seekers have a unique place in the communities they live as their life experiences differs from other immigrants.

 

How to undertake and deliver equitable research with the BAME community

• Supporting researchers understand the lived experience of these communities upskill them to have confidence through comfortable conversations
• Deconstructing the stereotype that BAME communities are hard to reach
• Discussing cultural intelligent informed approaches compared to traditional methods which do not suit their lived experience
• Tailoring interventions to people / groups so they can be the most effective.

Collecting data

• Asking the right questions that the community understand
• Using known terms
• Tools used to collect data /post online or focus groups that bring out more of people‘s lived experience
• Through story telling you get the intersecting needs communities have to navigate such as integration, economic hardships, racism and unclear service pathways that were designed for the host population.

 

Programme Information

The programme is open to staff and public contributors involved in health and care research, regardless of their role or the organisation they work for. The sessions will offer participants the opportunity to learn how to do PPIE and participation activities effectively within research.

 

There is no requirement to have any previous experience within PPIE. There are various training sessions available that are relevant to individual levels of PPIE and participation knowledge.

Register here.