Are you connected to PPIE? Are you keen to learn more and to build creative partnerships? If so, this is the course for you!
JOIN US AT OUR 3RD PATIENT AND PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT AND ENGAGEMENT (PPIE) SUMMER SCHOOL IN 2025
Dates: Three days of in person learning in Exeter – 2-4 July 2025
Mercure Exeter Southgate Hotel
About
Co-designed and delivered by academics and patient/public collaborators, this event gives delegates a rare opportunity to experience authentic, shared learning, combined with practical work. We invite you to come and take a deep dive with us into the values and principles that underpin PPIE.
Together we create and are supported by a safe space in which to learn and to discover how to bring new understandings and approaches to PPIE.
Who is it for?
This unique interdisciplinary course is relevant to people undertaking health or care research, including PhD students and those in PPIE co-ordinator/facilitator roles. It is also relevant to people who are not currently involving members of the public in their work but would like to do so. Linking research and practice, the course is tailored to those who are working across different disciplines in medicine, health and social care, and public health.
Why this course matters?
PPIE in research continues to gain importance in health and care research. It gives people with lived experience of illness and service use the opportunity to add their knowledge to research. It also creates an ethos of equality where patients and members of the public work with researchers as partners – in ways that are ‘for’ or ‘with’ them, rather than ‘to’ or ‘about’ them. Finally, it is an important means by which people can have a say in publicly funded research and be given the opportunity to make decisions, shape, and learn more about research.
This course is an opportunity to explore beyond the numbers and the rhetoric of PPIE. We will examine innovative and honest ways of generating and spreading knowledge. We will also explore how to foster the uptake of this knowledge through partnerships with care sectors, the public and communities – partnerships that reflect creativity and justice.
Feedback from previous events
“Well presented, was great to have the members of the public’s views/involvement”
“Informative, interesting and great facilitators”
“This is a varied and engaging course, which covers many aspects of PPIE within a short space of time. The framework...provides an engaging mix of listening, learning and teamwork.”
Registration fee: £650