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Innovating public engagement and patient involvement through strategic collaboration and practice
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Background: Patient and public involvement and engagement is an important and expected component of health-related research activity in the UK. Specifically within the health research sphere, public engagement (usually defined as raising awareness of research) and patient involvement (usually defined as actively involving people in research) have traditionally been seen as separate but have much to gain from working together towards a common goal of better health outcomes for all. Methods: This paper describes a unique approach taken by the Public Programmes Team: a small interdisciplinary team of public engagement specialists, with backgrounds in science, community development, public engagement and involvement, policy, ethics, communications, industry, museums and creative practice, embedded within translational research infrastructure and delivery in Manchester in the North West of England. We propose a new model of professional practice – a 'cycle' of engagement and involvement – innovating across the complementary fields of public engagement and patient involvement, and working inclusively and in partnership with people in health research. Further, our approach capitalises on strategic collaboration offering economies of scale and a joined up way of working. Our ambition is to boldly experiment, learn and reflect, responsibly and based on evidence and partnerships, using methods of engagement that address issues of social justice. Results: Here, we report on preliminary case studies exemplifying the impact of our approach, and data relating to achievements and learning between April 2017 and March 2018. Informed by our findings, we propose that our approach has the potential to be replicated elsewhere. Conclusions: Our practice and the beginning of its evaluation lead us to believe that our way of working and model of professional practice – the ‘cycle’ of engagement and involvement – is effective in: addressing our vision of making health research relevant and inclusive for everyone; and embedding and joining up public involvement in a busy and fertile translational health research ecosystem.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Holmes, L., Cresswell, K., Williams, S., Parsons, S., Keane, A., Wilson, C., Islam, S., Joseph, O., Miah, J., Robinson, E., & Starling, B.
- Affiliations
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Starling, Bella
- Venue
- Research Involvement and Engagement
- Published
- 2019-10-21
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 30-30
- ISSN
- 2056-7529 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6802177
- OpenAlex
- W2964751453
- Cited by
- 110
- References
- 15
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 28 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 6
- FWCI
- 11.93
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Research Involvement and Engagement (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- National Institute for Health Research (CRF-2016-10043, IS-BRC-1215-20007)
- Wellcome Trust (207028/Z/17/Z)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Community Health and Development
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Policy Implementation Science
- Keywords
- citizen participation, patient and public involvement, strategic cooperation, translational research, research collaboration, professional practice model, social justice, inclusive research, research relevance
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