{"id":1561,"date":"2026-06-08T09:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/per\/?p=1561"},"modified":"2026-06-08T09:25:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:25:16","slug":"understanding-patient-and-public-involvement-and-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/per\/2026\/06\/08\/understanding-patient-and-public-involvement-and-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>What do we mean by Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE), and how can researchers and members of the public&nbsp;participate?&nbsp;Find out more about the opportunities for PPIE at the University, and how our researchers are collaborating with patients&nbsp;and&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><s>&nbsp;<\/s><\/strong><strong>the&nbsp;public.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Within health and social care research,&nbsp;PPIE is a standard part of&nbsp;researchers\u2019&nbsp;practice&nbsp;to&nbsp;ensure&nbsp;<s>&nbsp;<\/s>their&nbsp;work&nbsp;responds to the needs of those who are directly affected by it. This blog&nbsp;provides a brief overview of what PPIE&nbsp;is,&nbsp;and&nbsp;shares a resource&nbsp;detailing the ways to get involved with PPIE groups at the University of Exeter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PPIE is about&nbsp;researchers&nbsp;working in partnership with patients and the public to shape research. In universities, this means involving people in decisions about research from the start, valuing different forms of knowledge, and creating open conversations that make research more&nbsp;ethical and relevant to the communities it serves.&nbsp;Activities involving these patient and public perspectives&nbsp;can take many forms,&nbsp;whether these are&nbsp;workshops, one-to-one conversations, surveys,&nbsp;or&nbsp;advisory group meetings. These may happen at&nbsp;different stages&nbsp;of a project, from early idea-building through to reviewing findings and thinking about how&nbsp;results are shared beyond the university.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;University of Exeter&nbsp;hosts a range of PPIE groups,&nbsp;inviting&nbsp;public contributors&nbsp;to&nbsp;share&nbsp;their views, questions, and experiences&nbsp;with&nbsp;researchers. This is an invaluable way to&nbsp;help ensure that research is grounded in&nbsp;real-world needs and concerns,&nbsp;not&nbsp;just&nbsp;academic priorities.&nbsp;Creating open, respectful ways of working helps universities value&nbsp;a&nbsp;range of&nbsp;expertise,&nbsp;strengthening research and its impact beyond the campus.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, we created&nbsp;an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/universityofexeteruk.sharepoint.com\/sites\/PublicEngagementwithResearchPERCommunity\/Lists\/PPIE%20mapping\/AllItems.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interactive tool<\/a>&nbsp;for University of Exeter staff that helps map out existing groups and networks across both our Devon and Cornwall campuses.&nbsp;For a public audience, this information has been summarised into&nbsp;a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.exeter.ac.uk\/v8media\/research\/publicengagement\/Research_Opportunities_for_Patients_and_People_with_Lived_Experience.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PDF<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.exeter.ac.uk\/research\/publicengagement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">available on our website<\/a>, along with a series of case studies, and stories from PPIE participants.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you would like to see how PPIE groups can make a difference \u2013 both in the context of a project, and moving forward to put that research into practice,\u00a0take a look\u00a0on\u00a0our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/per\/sample-page\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blogs page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do we mean by Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE), and how can researchers and members of the public\u00a0participate?\u00a0Find out more about the opportunities for PPIE at the University, and how our researchers are collaborating with patients\u00a0and\u00a0\u00a0the\u00a0public.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2305,"featured_media":1563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - 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