Marking the Third Anniversary of the Shared Commitment to Public Involvement
The NCCPE is proud to be one of the original 13 signatories of the Shared Commitment to Public Involvement.
Here, NCCPE Co-director, Paul Manners, tells us why signing the commitment was important to us, and shares a public involvement project that the NCCPE co-led.
We're pleased to join the Health Research Authority and NIHR to celebrate the third anniversary of the launch of this important commitment. We happily agreed to become a signatory as the values set out are keenly aligned with our own:
"Excellent public involvement is inclusive, values all contributions, ensures people have a meaningful say in what happens, and influences outcomes".
We regularly work in partnership with other organisations on this important initiative, to help drive up standards in health and social care research. We also meet regularly with other signatories, and love learning from colleagues about how they are implementing the commitments in their own work.
A particularly important project for us in the last 12 months – very much in the spirit of the Shared Commitment – was a project funded by CaSE (the Campaign for Science and Engineering), called the People’s Principles for Public Involvement in R&D, and delivered in partnership with NatCen.
It worked with members of the public to explore the extent to which they felt agency and ownership in the UK’s research system. The participants generated important recommendations and good practice principles focused on public involvement in R&D as a whole.
