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Inspire, encourage, support: Senior Investigators leading PPI in research

2014 Conference

Abstract: National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigators are a network of approximately 200 pre-eminent researchers who represent the country’s outstanding leaders of clinical and applied health and social care research. They are selected through a process of annual competition with advice from an independent expert panel.

Patient and public involvement (PPI) has been integrated into this selection process since its inception, with on-going support from INVOLVE. Applicants are asked for evidence of their PPI activities, PPI and patient/public benefit are criteria in assessing applications, and there is a public member on the expert panel.

With PPI embedded in this process, and an annual competition, we have a regular opportunity to review:

  • What we could improve and why
  • How we could deliver this improvement
  • How we would know if this had made a difference
  • We describe how we have worked together to address these questions.

The heart of our work, this year, is a new publication. Nothing that unusual. But both the content of this publication and its targeted dissemination supports our main ambition:

  • To inspire, encourage and support researchers to integrate PPI into their careers – as researchers, capacity builders and ultimately as leaders.

We talk about this process from different perspectives including:

  • What we have learned
  • What distinguishes research leaders for PPI
  • What we hope will change

We’ll also invite people to identify PPI activities they are involved in that either have benefitted, or would benefit, from taking a similar approach.

Authors

Cowan ~ Katherine

Senior Adviser, James Lind Alliance. Katherine Cowan Consulting Limited.

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Ray ~ Mary

National Institute for Health Research Patient and Public Involvement Contributor. Mary has worked in education, social care and health. She has been a public member on two National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) research programme funding panels since 2011. For the last two years she has also been the public member on the expert panel assessing the annual applications for NIHR Senior Investigator Awards.

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Yeeles ~ Philippa

Director of Involvement and Engagement, National Institute for Health Research I(NIHR) Central Commissioning Facility CCF. Philippa joined the NIHR CCF as Head of Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in November 2012. She supports the development of PPI in the work of CCF, an example of which is PPI in the NIHR Senior Investigators competition.

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