Resources for Public Contributors
- Why and How to Get Involve in Research – This Starting Out Guide provides information on how to get involve in health and care research.
- I want to help with research | NIHR – What is Public Involvement in Research and how to get involved.
- Free Training Resources for Public Contributors
- Payment Guidance for Public Contributors This guide is for patients, carers and members of the public thinking about getting actively involved in research (see section 1 for definitions of these terms) and you are being offered expenses and/ or payment for your involvement.
- Easy Read Payment Guidance This is an Easy Read version of a guidance document aimed at patients, carers, service users and members of the public (in this document referred to as public contributors) being offered payment as part of their involvement in health and social care research.
Resources for Researchers
- Payment Guidance for Researchers and Professionals – This guidance (published April 2021) provides information for researchers who need to cost public involvement activities at any stage of the research process.
- Drop-In Sessions – Members of the Midlands PSRC PPI Team deliver Drop-In Sessions to support researchers with general public involvement queries. Support is available at any stage of your research, and at all levels of experience.
Monthly sessions are hosted on Zoom. For more information, and to book onto a Drop-In Session, please click here.
General Resources
- NIHR Guidance to Coproduction (2018) – key principles
- NIHR UK Standards for Involvement
- NIHR Going the Extra Mile – final report and recommendations of the strategic review of public involvement in the NIHR
- Online Training – NIHR PPIE in Action Learning Series. Real-world examples of how patient and public involvement enhances the quality, relevance and inclusivity of NIHR-funded research. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIa1oelW_zJ9Ks13XY8vxfqH-8EK2l0nZ
Midlands PSRC PCIEP Research
- GRIPP2 reporting checklistsLink opens in a new window: tools to improve reporting of patient and public involvement in research.
Useful Tools
- BAME Toolkit Link opens in a new window– This toolkit, developed by our colleagues in Applied Research Collaboration East Midlands, captures best practice and provides researchers with a framework on how to improve the participation of Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups in research.
- The Get-It Glossary Link opens in a new window– an online glossary of health research terms defined in plain English.
- Jargon BusterLink opens in a new window – a glossary of words containing the definitions of some of the terms commonly used in public involvement in research.
Other Useful Resources
Cochrane Training International PPI Network. Learning Live webinar series.
Popay, J & Collins, M (eds) with the PiiAF Study Group. The Public Involvement Impact Assessment. 2014.