This online event will look at some pragmatic mechanisms and opportunities for successfully involving people with lived experience in evidence-informed policy and gain insights from across different research disciplines, policy areas, and geographies.
The discussion will begin with the questions below and will broaden out from there:
· Can we step up work including lived experience in research from practice and local level into national and wider policy?
· How can we bring the voices of those we seek to reach and support into policy without it being tokenistic? How can we do this in a way that is ethical and equitable?
· What skills, capacities and resources do researchers need in order to work with people of diverse backgrounds of lived experience – especially if we want to influence policy?
Running order and invited speakers:
12.00 Introduction Jonathan Breckon CHAIR (Senior Associate, Transforming Evidence)
and Annette Boaz (Co-Director, Transforming Evidence)
12:10 Mbah Patrick Okwen (Team Lead, Effective Base Services, Cameroon)
12:20 Lynn Laidlaw (Patient and Public Contributor, and Peer Researcher)
12:30 Ceri Davies (Director Centre for Deliberative Research, NatCen)
12.40 Panel Q&A
13.00 Audience Q&A
13.25 Summing up + final words from panel
13.30 Finish
In order to attend it is essential to register here on Eventbrite.
