Sue Banton
I have recently retired as Director of STEPS, a charity for people with lower limb conditions which I co-founded 33 years ago. I became involved with research projects through STEPS when I was invited onto the steering committee of a Randomised Control Trial in the 1990s. Since then I have worked with parents, carers and young people in other quantitative and qualitative research projects, both as a member of focus groups and on steering committees. I believe that public accessibility and openness in the research process will help to make research more relevant and effective to the people that matter, patients and their families.
I was a member of INVOLVE for over eight years and I currently have a strategic role in promoting public involvement in research as a member of the Medicines for Children Research Network, the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit and the new birth cohort study, The Life Study. 
