Dr Emmy Racine

 Dr Emmy Racine is Academic Co-Lead of PPI Ignite Network @ UCC and a Lecturer in the School of Public Health at UCC. She has extensive expertise in Public and Patient Involvement (PPI) and participatory research methodologies and has led a range of collaborative initiatives to build PPI capacity and strengthen institutional policies and practices, including the development of the UCC PPI Payment Policy. Her work focuses on embedding PPI and participatory approaches within undergraduate and postgraduate education, including the development of accredited PPI educational modules. She completed her PhD in 2020, which examined the methods and impact of PPI in clinical trials.