Enhancing Public and Patient involvement (PPI) in health research is identified as a priority area within the HRB’s Strategy 2016-2020,
including a defined commitment to develop and promote PPI within the HRB and HRB-supported projects and programmes. At the University of Limerick, we are committed to building capacity within our institution and our extramural partners, to foster high quality PPI in health research. The proposed PPI Summer School will provide intensive training and networking opportunities for academic and community stakeholders who wish to build skillsets necessary for engaging in effective PPI research. (NOTE: the proposed summer school is separate from and not funded through PPI Ignite-UL)
The 2020 PPI Summer School will take place at UL, June 25-26. We expect between 60-100 participants. Although this is our 5th annual summer school, we have modified the program, offering new workshops that were unavailable in previous years. We therefore expect to attract not only new participants, but return participants looking for new skills. The Summer School programme will consist of 3 sessions of 3 parallel workshops (a total of 9 workshop slots). It will also include two plenary sessions, the second of which is a panel of our regional and national PPI Ignite community partners. We also include networking events, such as the participant dinner. The primary impact of this event will be a cohort of PPI-trained individuals from academia and community, well equipped to undertake high quality PPI health research.
