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Patient and Public Involvement Event organisers encourage community to get involved in ‘powerful showcase’ for 2025
28th November 2024
NHS Research Scotland (NRS) will proudly host a powerful showcase next year championing the essential drive to ensure patients and the public play a part in the research that affects them
Taking place on Tuesday 11 March 2025, the Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Event is set to bring together public partners, professionals, researchers, and policy makers to share, shape, and celebrate PPI in research across Scotland.
It is the second consecutive year of the national conference providing an interactive, inclusive platform for showcasing activity, initiatives, and successes across the whole of Scotland. Due to the overwhelming demand last year, expressions of interest now being welcomed with the full programme and registration opening early next year.
The event will take place at the Stirling Court Hotel — part of the University of Stirling Campus — and will coincide with the third anniversary of the launch of the Shared Commitment to Public Involvement in health and social care research.
NRS alongside the Chief Scientist Office (CSO), and other leading organisations and partner nations, believe the Shared Commitment is helping to drive up standards in health and social care research.
The event provides an opportunity to showcase activity across Scotland, with further opportunities to learn, network and collaborate. To ensure the event captures the diversity of activity across Scotland, opportunities to submit ideas for oral, speed, poster and workshop sessions are now being encouraged with a deadline of Wednesday 18 December.
- Abstract submissions are welcomed for poster display, speed presentation (5 minutes) or oral presentation (10-15 minutes)
- Workshop proposals (1 hour) encourage more in-depth exploration of PPI topics. These are designed to be more interactive sessions that promote knowledge transfer, skills development and collaborative learning among all participants and workshop facilitators. These should be delivered in collaboration with colleagues or potentially across different organisations, with involvement of public partners strongly encouraged
The programme is expected to bring together speakers from NHS, academia and third sector, public contributors, and early career researchers — all united in ambitions to improve the quality of PPI in research.
Deadline for submissions is Wednesday 18 December with successful authors being notified in early January. If you have any queries on the event, please contact communications@nrs.org.uk.
