We use the term public and community partnerships to describe all our work in supporting local authorities to understand and develop their activities that involve and engage the public, communities and people with lived experience in their public health research.
We agreed the use of the term public and community partnerships with our public and community contributors to reflect that local authorities have different names to describe their involvement and engagement work in research.
You will hear local authorities use different names and approaches to achieve their public and community partnerships including:
Co-production
Co-design
Community researchers
Participatory research
Peer research.
At SCPH, we have placed PCP at the heart of our work to ensure we make a difference to public health and reduce inequalities.
To achieve this, we have set out our PCP ambitions in a Public Involvement and Engagement Strategy 2024 to 2028. This strategy sets out how we will support local authorities and researchers to work in meaningful partnership with people and communities to design, deliver, and disseminate research and to provide evidence to inform the delivery of public health services.
The strategy also explains how the voice of the public and community contributors is fully embedded in our work.
For more information about our PCP work please contact our PCP Manager, Kasia Kurowska – kasia.kurowska@newcastle.ac.uk.
📅 Wednesday 26 November
🕧 10 to 11am
In this webinar, we will explore the benefits of creating a public and community involvement and engagement strategy for public health research in a local authority setting. Opened by Donna White, Senior Research Manager at NIHR, we will hear from two local authorities who have taken different approaches to creating their involvement and engagement strategy and what they learned through the process. Our speakers will share their top tips to getting started on creating an involvement and engagement strategy and there will be time to ask questions to the panel.
Hear from Kasia Kurowska, Tracy Johns, public contributors, and researchers, on their experiences. They also share practical advice on public and community involvement and engagement.
This session explores the use of a range of methods to evaluate public and community involvement. The models explored in this session are Ripple Effects Mapping, Theory of Change and PIRIT.
In this session, Dr Felicity Shenton will take you through the key aspects of ensuring your public involvement and engagement is ethical and meaningful.
Felicity is an extremely experienced Public and Community Involvement Manager, with a background in participatory research, peer research, co-production and service user involvement in education, research and service improvement. In this session, Dr Felicity Shenton will take you through the key aspects of ensuring your public involvement and engagement is ethical and meaningful.