PPI IGNITE NETWORK
Festival 2024
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.
FESTIVAL 2024
Connect, Collaborate,
The third National PPI Festival ran from the 1st–31st of October. Co-ordinated by the PPI Ignite Network @ UCC, the Festival was launched during an in-person event in UCC on Tuesday 1 October, followed by a PPI in PhD research symposium. Read the full news article
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.
NATIONAL PPI FESTIVAL
#PPIFestival24 Highlights and Resources
RECORDING
Learning across borders: PPI case studies from Ireland and beyond
PPI Ignite Network Central Office and PPI Ignite Network @ RCSI on sharing learning and knowledge across international borders. Keynotes, PPI contributors and panel discussion.
REPORT
PPI INCLUDES: including refugees and other migrants in health research
Joint report by Doras and the
Participatory Health Research Unit, University of Limerick, on building capacity for refugees’ and migrants’ involvement in health research.
SUMMARY
Creative Communications: Hearing the Voices of everyone
Queen’s University Belfast PPI Network, Ulster University and NIPHRN with PPI contributors, patients, researchers and advocates from across sectors.
RECORDING
Fostering Community Academia Partnerships
PPI Ignite Network @ University of Galway and the Medical University of South Carolina on the Community Engaged Scholars Programme in the US and Ireland.
RECORDING
Voices that matter
RCSI School of Nursing and Midwifery panel with advisory partners on why and how they include patients and the public in research and education.
VIDEO
Training of patients as Research Consultants
Sao Paulo State University, Brazil, empowering older people with chronic illness and community members to become research consultants.
RECORDING
Empowering Youth Voices
The D1 Now Definitive Trial and PPI Ignite Network @ University of Galway on international examples of PPI excellence in health research for young people.
RECORDING
Evaluating PPI Training
Work Package 1 (HRCI, DCU, University of Galway) launched a practical resource to help facilitators evaluate PPI training sessions and events.
SLIDES
Universal Design for Learning & PPI
RCSI PPI Ignite Network Office on the UDL Framework and how it applies to PPI in research through a common goal: agency.
RECORDING
Exploring Sex and Gender in Chronic Pain
University of Galway School of Psychology with Chronic Pain Ireland and the PAINDIFF Network on sex and gender as variables in chronic pain.
PAST FESTIVALS
Previous years
Read about highlights, outputs and snapshots from each Festival.
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