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Online PPI training for researchers

Our Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) team run regular online training sessions for researchers who are new to PPI or who want to build their skills.

Sessions are free for students and staff from the NIHR, NHS, UK universities, public sector institutions and registered charities based in the UK. Researchers from commercial organisations are welcome to attend for a nominal fee.

When registering, please make sure you use a work-associated email address e.g. .nhs.uk, .ac.uk etc.

Contact our PPI team if you have any questions.

You can also find a list of other training opportunities, including Good Clinical Practice and Edge training for CUH staff.

Training Sessions

Click on the relevant boxes below to reserve places on individual sessions or fill in an Expression of Interest form. Please note our next online training will be late (Autumn) 2026.

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Introduction to Patient and Public Involvement for researchers

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Building and maintaining a PPI group

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PPI Toolkit: Ways to involve the public in research

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Using PPI to help communicate your research

Avoiding tokenism – supporting meaningful PPI

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Evaluating PPI

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Planning inclusive PPI

Image of a poster for Inclusivity training May to June 2026 for research staff linked to any NIHR BRC

Inclusivity training for BRC affiliated research staff

Six NIHR Biomedical Research Centres: Barts, Birmingham, Cambridge, Moorfields, Oxford and Oxford Health in collaboration bring to you a series of engaging online training sessions with experts and researchers to help embed inclusion in your research.

  • Ethnicity Inclusion training with Prof. Shaun Treweek
  • Socio-economic Disadvantage Inclusion training with Dr Heidi R Green
These sessions are for: 
Research staff affiliated with any NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), including our partners Barts, Birmingham, Cambridge, Moorfields, Oxford and Oxford Health BRCs (NIHR Cambridge BRC, includes East Anglia research staff).

Please complete the Expression of Interest form to receive the registration link for  sessions from May to June 2026.

If you are based in East Anglia and have any questions email Georgina.norris3@nhs.net or if you are from Oxford email: Mili.kalia@ouh.nhs.uk or  training.ohbrc@psych.ox.ac.uk

All-day PPI training

This in-person Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) training session is for East Anglia (EA) research staff ONLY and held in Cambridge.

Our next session will be on Wednesday 2 September 2026 from 9.30am to 4.00pm @ the West Hub, Cambridge.

Although free, please note a non-attendance fee of £100 will apply as places are limited.

Please complete an expression of interest form to receive a link to register. Please note London is not in East Anglia.

If you have an questions please email: georgina.norris3@nhs.net

The NIHR Cambridge BRC is part of the NIHR and hosted by Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with the University of Cambridge. We are at the heart of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Europe’s largest health research area.

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13 May

Patient & Public Involvement Showcase is back! This year’s FREE event is bigger & better because we’re teaming up with our partners from across the region. Find out the latest research happening in East of England on 16 June @CUH_NHS! Book: http://bit.ly/NIHREoEPPI26Events

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8 May

Are you a health researcher in East England? Have you used PPI to benefit your research? Tell us about it here (deadline 26 May) & you could be selected to present your research in a poster or short talk at the East of England PPI Showcase, 16 Jun #NIHR20

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8 May

Our PPI Showcase is back! This year’s FREE event is bigger & better because we're joining up with our East of England teams!

📅When: 16 June
📍Where: Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre @CUH_NHS
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⏰Time: From 9.20
🖱️Book: http://bit.ly/NIHREoEPPI26Events

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7 May

⏰ Three days left to apply to present at the Cambridge NMAP Research Conference by midnight this Sunday!
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Share your work, meet & learn from colleagues across the region. 
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7 May

Join us for our East of England Patient & Public Involvement (PPI) showcase on 16 June @CUH_NHS. A FREE event for members of the public & researchers to celebrate how PPI impacts #research. There will be talks, posters & a light lunch. Book http://bit.ly/NIHREoEPPI26Events
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6 May

From Wells-next-the-Sea to Southend-on-Sea, are you a health researcher in East England? Tell us how PPI improved your research https://bit.ly/4tLXWgI by 12pm 26 May & you could be invited to present a poster or short talk at the East of England PPI Showcase @CamBioCampus 16 Jun

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