PPI IGNITE NETWORK
Festival 2025
The fourth Annual PPI Festival took 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 continued with a range of PPI-focused events.
NATIONAL PPI FESTIVAL
#PPIFestival25 Highlights and Resources
Resources, recordings and behind-the-scenes from the National PPI
Festival 2025.
PODCAST / VIDEO
Not Just Patients
Viveka Guzman, Cliodhna Ni Bhroin and Fergal O’Brien discuss being more than just patients, live from the Festival launch.
RECORDING
On the PPI Journey
Reflecting on the evolving role of PPI, including the Network’s Public Advisory Board who were centrally involved in planning and delivering the event.
INFOGRAPHIC
Breaking through the Pain Barrier
Audience insights on research priorities for pain in IBS and IBD, and the facilitators and barriers to involvement.
RECORDING
PPI and Lived Experience Work
Jessica Catchpole, lived experience researcher and PPI lead at City St George’s University, London, and peer reviewer for Lancet Psychiatry.
RECORDING
Network Launch (Part 1)
Professor Fergal O’Brien opens the Festival launch, followed by Sean Dinneen and Network members
reflecting on the work of recent years.
RECORDING
Network Launch (Part 2)
Three research projects showing the essence of PPI Power, how co-authoring enhances research, and learning from each other.
RECORDING
Network Launch (Part 3)
Editors and a lived experience
researcher on how personal and
professional knowledge inform the
writing and reviewing of papers.
PAST FESTIVALS
Previous years
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