Centre for Public Engagement (CPE)

Our four main areas of focus are:

• Education – we deliver education programmes and develop learning tools and processes to facilitate Public Engagement in the learning environment.
• Research – we undertake work to further investigate and promote the involvement of service users in health, social care, education and research.
• Service Improvement – we work with service providers at all levels of health and social care and the education sector to ensure that public engagement is thoroughly and effectively embedded to improve the effectiveness and relevance of services and the representation of the public.
• Workforce development – we evaluate, develop and augment the skills of the health and social care workforce, creating an evidence base for professional development around patient and public involvement.

The Centre for Public Engagement can help with:

• Collaboration and advice on public involvement in your research projects
• Teaching or training your staff and service users in best practice
• Involving seldom listened to and complex condition cohorts
• Organisational and strategic involvement and engagement projects
• Service improvement initiatives
• Developing participative and co-production methodologies across the four areas of our activity
• Developing outcome measures for PPI

• Professor Mary Chambers – Director
• Duncan Barron – Patient and Public Involvement Lead
• Sally Brearley – Patient and Public Involvement Fellow
• Francesca Taylor – Research Associate