National PPI Festival
PPI Ignite network
National PPI Festival
The National PPI Festival is hosted annually in October by the PPI Ignite Network. The Festival sees PPI contributors, Higher Education Institutions, charity and community organisations, and research groups come together to celebrate innovation and progress in PPI across Ireland.
Read about highlights, outputs, and snapshots National PPI Festival 2023, National PPI Festival 2022, and National PPI Festival 2024.
Festival 2025
The fourth National PPI Festival is now in full swing. Taking place from the 1st-31st October! Co-ordinated by the PPI Ignite Network @ RCSI, the Festival launched with a two-day in-person event in RCSI, and continues with a range of PPI focused events.
The theme of this year’s festival is Celebrating our History, Embracing our Future. Keep an eye on our Calendar of Events to see what is happening near you and online. We encourage everyone to get involved whether they have lived experience, are academics, or simply wish to be involved in shaping the future of health and social care research in Ireland.
If you are interested in hosting an event during this year’s festival read our Festival Guidelines for organisers
National PPI Festival
#PPIFestival25 Highlights and Resources
Watch this space...
Watch this space to see resources, recordings, and behind-the-scenes leading up to and during the National PPI Festival 2024.
Join Viveka Guzman, Cliodhna Ni Bhroin, and Fergal O’Brien as they discuss being more than just patients, live from the National PPI Festival Launch.
This event reflected on the evolving role of PPI, for example, the PPI Ignite Network’s Public Advisory Board (PAB) who were centrally involved in planning and delivering the event.
The audience provided their insights on research priorities for pain in IBS and IBD, facilitators and barriers to involvement in this infographic
Jessica Catchpole is a lived experience researcher and PPI lead at the City St George’s University, London and a lived experience peer reviewer for Lancet Psychiatry.
Professor Fergal O’Brien (RCSI) opens this year’s festival launch, followed by Sean Dinneen and members of the PPI Ignite Network, who reflect on the work the network has carried out over the past few years
In part two of the launch, we will here about three research projects that really show the essence of PPI Power, how we can ENHANCE research with co-authoring, and how it all helps us in Learning from Each Other.
In part three of the launch, we see editors and a lived experience researcher share their perspectives. Showing how personal and professional knowledge come together to inform writing and reviewing of papers.