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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.

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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 reserch

Avoiding tokenism – supporting meaningful PPI

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Evaluating PPI

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Planning inclusive PPI

Ethnicity inclusion in health research training

This online training with NIHR Cambridge BRC, NIHR Oxford BRC and NIHR Oxford Health BRC is for East Anglia and Oxford research staff ONLY. We will re-run these sessions later in 2025/26. Please complete the Expression of Interest form to receive the registration link once this is finalised. If you are based in East Anglia and have any questions email Georgina.norris3@nhs.net or if you are from Oxford email: Rachel.Taylor@ouh.nhs.uk or Cora.Reillymcgeown@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk

You can download some of the questions raised from the previous two sessions

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.

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

Please complete an expression of interest form to be added to our spreadsheet to hear about our next session once programmed. This is likely to be early 2026.

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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