Edinburgh CRF - Patient Public Involvement Training

Are you a researcher looking for training in Patient Public Involvement?

PPI Course descriptions are noted below.  If you are interested in attending a PPI course, please refer to the CRF Education Programme courses page (www.ed.ac.uk/crfcourses) for course dates; alternatively complete the appropriate MS Form (please see instructions below). 

Should you wish to set up distinct or bespoke training for your team or department, our PPI Lead would be happy to discuss this with you. Please contact Sammy Waite or Alisa Anokhina for more information.


Self-directed    |    Online (Xerte)

About

This course aims to help you begin your patient public involvement activities.

These are some of the topics we will cover:   

  • What is patient and public involvement?
  • Ways of working
  • Making Patient and Public Involvement work for you
  • Challenges and how to overcome them
  • Resources: where to find help and support

Tutor

Carol Porteous. (Please Note: Carol is no longer part of Edinburgh CRF but access to resource is still available)

Cost

This course is a free resource


Are you applying for grant funding from a major funder or charity?  Do you want to work with patients and the public on your grant application but aren’t sure how to evidence it? In this course, we will explore what grant funders' requirements are in terms of PPI, when you should be seeking patient and public input and how and where to include PPI in the grant application. This course is for you if:

  • You are looking to find out what funders such as the Wellcome Trust and NIHR expect in terms of Patient Public Involvement (and engagement);
  • You want to know how to truly incorporate meaningful PPI into the design and delivery of applications;
  • You want to know how to work with Patient co-applicants;
  • You want to be able to evidence your PPI activities in your funding application; and
  • You want to know what activities you should be be involving people in.   

Bring along a current application you are working on or a future research idea you intend to seek funding for and develop your PPI plan for your grant application.

Objectives:

By the end of the course, researchers should have:

  • A better understanding of where to involve patients and the public and what funders' PPI expectations are
  • A plan for completing their funding application
  • A plan of PPI activities for their research project

 

Please check the CRF Education Programme courses page (www.ed.ac.uk/crfcourses) for current courses or complete Interested in next Grant Applications in PPI (MS Form) to be informed of future dates.


Creating and running a PPI Group – Discusses how to advertise and recruit patient and public members, organise your first meeting and how to keep your PPI group running successfully and sustainably.

  • Are you struggling about where to begin in setting up a PPI group?
  • Are you wondering how to keep an existing panel going?
  • Unsure if a panel is the best means of conducting PPI in your research?

Objectives:

  • Leave with a plan for your new or existing PPI group
  • Know how to create adverts and role descriptions for your panel
  • Understand how to keep running your group and make it sustainable

 

Please check the CRF Education Programme courses page (www.ed.ac.uk/crfcourses) for current courses or complete Interested in next Creating and Running a PPI Group (MS Form) to be informed of future dates.


Patient and Public Involvement is essential for ensuring that research addresses the needs of the communities it aims to serve.

People from under-served groups, including those living in deprivation or with lower educational attainment, are frequently under-represented in clinical research and PPI activities. Recent UK initiatives, such as NIHR-INCLUDE, are addressing this issue, and funders now increasingly require inclusive research practices (NIHR, 2024). To design research that addresses the needs of those it is intended to benefit, it is vital to involve a diverse range of patients, public members, and families. This advanced course will equip you with the skills to identify barriers and enablers to effective PPI with under-served communities.

Pre-requisite: A basic knowledge of PPI is required before undertaking this course.

Objectives:

  • Understand the roots of PPI and how it is grounded in the most under-served populations
  • Gain insight into the realities faced by under-served communities
  • Develop skills to identify and overcome barriers to research involvement, and apply these concepts to your own PPI plans
  • Learn strategies for building and maintaining trusting relationships with public contributors and their representatives

 

Please check the CRF Education Programme courses page (www.ed.ac.uk/crfcourses) for current courses or complete Interested in next Doing PPI with Under-served Groups (MS Form) to be informed of future dates.


About

Are you wondering where to begin with Patient Public Involvement (PPI) in research? Are you brand new or just lack confidence when it comes to PPI and not sure how you should be doing it? Then the PPI Summer school is for you.

Over this online course we will provide you with the confidence and skills in PPI to enable you to undertake your first PPI activity or improve your current practice. The course will be hands on and interactive and you will have the opportunity to work virtually with our CRF Patient Advisory Group members.

On completing the course, you should have a PPI plan for your own research project or team, including how to keep PPI groups running, evaluation and finances.

This course will run online over three days, with pre-course reading and participation activities, and the opportunity to book a one-to-one appointment with our CRF PPI Lead on day 4.

Tutor

TBC

 

Please check the CRF Education Programme courses page (www.ed.ac.uk/crfcourses) for current courses or complete Interested in next PPI in Research Summer School (MS Form) to be informed of future dates.


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