6th National Conference
‘Public involvement in research: getting it right and making a difference'
November 11th and 12th 2008
East Midlands Conference Centre
Nottingham
Thank you to everybody who attended our conference in Nottingham and helped to make it such a successful and enjoyable event.
The conference abstracts and presentations will be available on the website shortly.
On day 2 of the conference Judy Scott and Alison Faulkner ran a Single Issue Workshop Payment for involvement in research: helpful benefit rules and systems for avoiding benefit problems. Judy Scott developed a handout for this workshop outlining some helpful information on benefit rules and systems.
INVOLVE’s national conference is an event for everyone who is interested in supporting and promoting public involvement in NHS, public health and social care research. This includes members of the public, service users, researchers, research commissioners and representatives of voluntary sector organisations.
This year the conference will take place over two days. We will start at lunchtime on Tuesday 11th November and finish around 4.30pm on Wednesday 12th November. There will be time to discuss, reflect, network and socialise.
Venue
The East Midlands Conference Centre is a modern and accessible venue near to Nottingham city centre and major road, rail, bus and air links. If you travel by car there are a large number of parking spaces including designated disabled parking bays available at the conference centre.
The conference is now fully booked for new delegates - registration is still open for presenters of a paper, poster or workshop via the Professional Briefings website.
Or presenters can download the registration form and return it to Professional Briefings, Registration Department, 37 Star Street, Ware, Herts, SG12 7AA.
We will be having 8 workshops plus a number of additional single issue sessions, around 40 papers, a wide variety of posters and poster talks and a pantomime!
The Conference programme is now available and further updates will be published on the Professional Briefings Conference website.
These are some of the themes and key issues in the programme:
Knowledge about public involvement in research
- experiences of involvement in research projects or initiatives
- involvement in particular stages of research – e.g. prioritising or reviewing research applications, getting ethics approval, presenting research information and findings
- partnership working – e.g. between service users, researchers and /or practitioners
- involving communities in research including black and minority ethnic communities, children and young people, people with learning difficulties
- learning from user researchers
Debating future directions
- soapbox session – voicing issues
- taking stock more generally – e.g. reflections on where we have got to
- developing strategies for involvement
- policy or practice changes as a result of public involvement in research
- building knowledge and evidence of public involvement in research
- researching the impact of involvement
- planning future directions
Places are limited to 300 and we are now fully booked for registration of new delegates.
The Conference website has information on help with costs for the conference.
If you have any questions please contact Rosemary McMahon at Professional
Briefings Tel: 01920 487672 Email: london@profbriefings.co.uk
Call for presentations
The Call for Presentations is now closed. We would like to say 'Thank You' to all the people who have sent in so many interesting presentations. These will now be considered by the Conference Planning Group on Friday 23rd May 2008 and if you have submitted a presentation you will hear from us shortly after this.
We look forward to seeing everyone at the Conference, and please remember that even if you didn't send in a presentation, or are unsuccessful with your submission there are other ways you can tell us about your work. Perhaps you would consider writing an article for our Newsletter, or submit a project to our Research Project Database
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