09:00 – 10:00

Registration and Refreshments

10:00 – 10:15

Welcome

Speaker TBC

10:15 – 11:00

Plenary

Inclusive Language for Patient and Public Involvement; Sammy Waite, Patient and Community Involvement in Research Officer, University of Edinburgh

11:00 – 11:30

Refreshments and Networking

11:30 – 12:30

Session 2

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch and Networking

13:30 – 14:30

Session 3

14:30 – 15:00

Refreshments and poster viewing session

15:00 – 15:20

15:20 – 15:45

Plenary

Discover Your Role — Public Involvement Action Plan for Wales; Peter Gee, Senior Public Involvement Manager, Health and Care Research Wales

Public Engagement Fund Showcase: Engaging Scottish Communities with Data; Rachel Edwards, Public Engagement Officer, Research Data Scotland

15:45 – 15:55

Awards and Close

1A (Workshop)

Stepping forward together: Overcoming barriers in Public Involvement

Led by: Jenny Sharma, Patient and Public Involvement Manager, Cancer Research UK Scotland Centre

1B (Workshop)

Real-world dilemmas in Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement: pragmatic observations from working with under-served groups

Led by: Kath Williamson, CSO Early Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Glasgow

1C (Oral)

Advanced talks (title TBC)

Chaired by:

11:30 – 11:50

11:50 – 12:10

12:10 – 12:30

In Case I Don't See You: Good Afternoon, Good Evening - Good PPI; Ms Charlie Guy, Public and Patient Involvement (PPI) Coordinator, University of St Andrews School of Medicine, Mr Joshua James, Junior Creative, STV

Patient and Public Involvement in Qualitative Analysis: Engaging Patient Advisory Group colleagues in the coding of Fear of Cancer Recurrence interviews on the PETNECK2 Trial; Maebh Kenny-Jones, Research Assistant, University of Stirling

UKRI Mental Health Platform: PPIE From The Ground Up!; Dr Sophie Quick, Communications and Engagement Manager, UKRI Mental Health Platform, University of Edinburgh and Public Contributor

1D (Oral)

Patient Voice in different types of study

Chaired by:

11:30 – 11:50

11:50 - 12:10

12:10 – 12:30

Lived experience at the heart of co-analysis: experiences in palliative care research; Dr Sarah Bowers, SCREDS Lecturer, University of St Andrews/NHS Forth Valley, Dr Anne Fearfull, FCAC, University of St Andrews

Embedding Patient Voices in Bowel Cancer Research; Dr Emma Parsons, Research Assistant, University of Glasgow and public contributors

Depression Detectives - Online Citizen Science; Iona Beange, Patient and Public Involvement Co-ordinator, University of Edinburgh, Sophia Collins, Public Engagement practitioner and consultant

2A (Workshop)

Building inclusive knowledge spaces, one LEGO® brick at a time: Involving underrepresented communities in data research

Led by: Piotr Teodorowski

2B (Workshop)

Patient and public involvement in evidence syntheses (systematic reviews)

Led by: Alex Todhunter-Brown

2C (Workshop)

Trauma-Informed Practices for Ethical Patient and Public Involvement Research

Led by: Chris Rourke

2D (Oral)

Ethical and Inclusive

Chaired by:

13:15 – 13:35

13:35 – 13:55

13:55 – 14:15

Two-Eyed Seeing: The Ethics of Ethical PPI from Western and non-Western Viewpoints — Lessons from the Global Heritage Women for Health Equity Project; Leila Neshat Mokadem, PhD scholar, Robert Gordon University, & CEO, Equity Lighthouse, Jane Ogamba Akadiri, Founder and Charity Manager, Touch of Love Outreach

Creating Meaningful Impact: Inclusive and Equitable PPIE Across Sectors; Amy Connelly, PPIE Specialist, Heriot-Watt University and Public Contributor

Co-production in MRI Research: Experiences from the Eating Disorders and Autism Collaborative; Dr Michelle Sader, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Aberdeen