The Public Involvement and Engagement in Health and Care Resaerch unit focuses on addressing inclusion, co-production and diversity in research, with specific expertise relating to the involvement of populations often under-represented in research studies.

Our activities fall into the following areas:

• Inclusive involvement in research
  - Engaging and involving diverse communities, including those who are marginalised and under-served
  - Participatory and creative methods
  - Improving the evidence-base of public involvement – feedback and evaluating impact
  - Coproduction
  - Public co-applicants,  co-researchers and collaboration with the Public Involvement in Research group (PIRg)
  
  
• Involvement with children and young people (CYP)
  - Training and supporting CYP’s involvement in research through the Herts YPAG
  - Inclusive involvement of diverse CYP as co-applicants and advisors in specific projects
  - CYP-led and co-produced research
  - CYP’s participation in health and care services

• Involvement with older people
  - Care home residents
  - Dementia and family carers
• Involvement with under-served communities
  - People with Learning disabilities and autistic people
  - Mental health service users and carers
  
  

For more information about the research unit please contact  Professor Julia Jones.
For more information about the Public Involvement in research group (PIRg) please contact Sonya Prime.