Please contact us as early as possible to discuss and plan public involvement in your research project. Please complete our client enquiry form and we will contact you to arrange an appointment.
Our guidance and resources section has information and guidance on the different ways that members of the public can be involved in research including:
Public involvement lead – Tracey Johns (Essex hub)
Responsible for the development, implementation, evaluation and reporting of our public involvement strategy and co-ordinating support and best practice across the region.
Email: tracey.johns@essex.ac.uk Telephone: 01206 874856
Specialist public involvement advisers in five local hubs
Essex Tracey Johns (as above)
Cambridge Andrew Sharpe – Andrew.sharpe2@nhs.net
Bedfordshire Nasreen Ali – Nasreen.Ali@beds.ac.uk
Hertfordshire Annalisa Casarin – Annalisa.casarin@nihr.ac.uk
Norfolk & Suffolk Helen Risebro – h.risebro@uea.ac.uk
If you are a researcher in the East of England region and you need funding to support public involvement in the early development and design stage of your research grant application you can apply for a small amount of funding from the RDS EoE Public Involvement Fund. Here’s an example of the RDS Public Involvement Fund Application Process.
Please contact Tracey Johns for further information or download a copy of the form and funding criteria here.
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