PPIE event marks Social Responsibility commitment
28 Jul 2017
The Centre for Engagement and Involvement hosts celebration event.
The Faculty's public engagement and involvement (PPIE) work has been celebrated at an event hosted by the Centre for Engagement and Involvement attended by more than 80 collaborators from the local community.
Professor Mahesh Nirmalan, Vice Dean for Social Responsibility commented: "Meaningful public engagement should lead to better Science by providing new and additional perspectives to the hitherto, single minded researcher."
The event focussed on the 'Partnerships and Perspectives' of PPIE with talks from students who discussed their experiences of PPIE and Dr Caroline Sanders, Senior Lecturer in Medical Sociology, who looked at the past, present and future of partnerships and collaboration.
Sarah Collins, who is responsible for communication in the Division of Medical Education, led a session in which guests learned circus skills with the Manchester-based theatre company, Box of Tricks, to explore new ways of engaging the Arts to promote involvement and engagement.
Sarah said: "This was a fun, inspiring and stimulating day. The achievements of all the award winners were truly impressive and just go to show how essential and vibrant the work of the Faculty’s Social Responsibility team is."
The University's Director of Social Responsibility, Dr Julian Skyrme, described the event as engaging and interactive: "It was really pleasing to see so many collaborators with the Faculty’s work from the local community have their contribution recognised – this was our 'inspiring communities' strategy in action!"
The presentation of this year's Outstanding Contribution to PPIE Awards took place in recognition of the commitment and positive impact made through involvement and engagement activities.
Winners and highly commended nominees were:
Student
- Winner – Katie Walwyn-Brown (Engaging the public in immunology research)
- Highly commended- Michael Daniels (Public engagement with science)
Staff
- Winner – Ann-Louise Caress ( Championing PPIE in nursing, midwifery and beyond)
- Highly commended – Jo Pennock (Innovative means of engaging public with immunology research)
- Highly commended – Claire Planner (PRIMER: Primary Care Research Engagement Resource)
Group
- Winner – HIDDEN: the future of young caring
- Highly commended – 100,000 genomes outreach work
- Highly commended – MRAG (Multi-Morbidity Research Advisory Group)
Public Contributor
- Winner – Fred Walker (Dementia awareness raising and fundraising £45,000 for Alzheimer’s Research UK)
- Winner – Tracy Millington (COVER project, a study involving the use of medical skin camouflage for self-harm scarring in a women's prison)
Special Award
In the memory of Neal Sinclair (Co-production work in development of smartphone apps for mental health services) Neal played a key role in both the Careloop and DEPEND research projects until he passed away in April 2017. Neal's sister, Janet accepted the award on his behalf.
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