Research Conversation: Creative ways to facilitate public involvement

Research Conversations are hosted by People in Health West of England. They are informal and designed to give researchers and public contributors a chance to interact. Public contributors are encouraged to ask questions of the researcher presenting.

About the event

Jamie Eastman will share an overview of the evidence for applying creative and arts-based approaches to facilitate public involvement in health and public health research. He’ll then introduce his study, which focuses on creativity and public involvement in public health evaluation, a project informed by realist methodology. Sharing initial theories ahead of findings, the audience will be invited to corroborate or contradict these drawing on experiences or ideas of their own from public contribution and patient and public involvement.

Input requested from attendees

Jamie says:

In the realist approach it’s helpful to test one’s initial theories (IPTs) and invite feedback before moving onto data analysis. With luck I will have some data by April/May and will be starting to arrange and look for patterns informed by these initial theories. Some help from others with PPI experience, who may join this talk, with refining before I go deep into analysis could prove very useful.

About the speaker

Jamie is a PhD student with PHIRST South Bank studying barriers and facilitators to PPI and the role of creative methods. He has a Masters in Creative Health, and is experienced in field as an independent evaluator of local authority programmes designed to achieve community wellbeing through strength-based approaches and asset-building. Jamie is conducting a realist evaluation of what works for whom and in what circumstances with regards to creative and arts-based approaches to facilitating PPI in public health evaluation research. Jamie is also an experienced Social Prescriber and Health Coach working for NHS Primary Care Networks in South Bristol.

Join the event

Zoom link: https://bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96675762299?pwd=aU4xNvTroIJOU2UbbfBVLGi1JlIR0e.1

MeetIng ID: 966 7576 2299

Passcode: 483983