This blog is written by a few of the Centre collaborators to date – Elaine, Sarifa, Dave & Niccola – we’ve each written part of this update. Find out more about each of us at the end of this blog. Whether it is co-production, co-creation, or co-design, what is important to the UCL Centre for […]

Congratulations to all of our funded projects for our recent Beacon Bursaries and Train and Engage rounds. We had some fantastic applications, and both panels were forced to make some tough decisions in deciding where our limited funding could go. We are delighted to be working with colleagues from every school at UCL on these […]

Today we (you, me and everyone else who wants to be involved!), are launching the UCL Centre for Co-production in Health Research Pilots. Exciting times! Doubly exciting because today is the start of National Co-production Week ‘Nothing about us without us’ brought to you by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). As you may already […]

Flavia Schechtman Belham is a PhD student in the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, and a fantastic project leader from our Train and Engage program. In this blog entry, Flavia discusses her project working with older communities and poetry, to discuss neuroscience.  At the 3rd year (of 4) of my PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience, I […]

The Train and Engage fund is now open for applications from anyone who has completed our PhD training programmes. The fund gives applicants a chance to try out engagement and put their learning to good use with public, patient and community groups. This week we spoke to Erika Aquino, PhD student at the UCL Institute […]

Dr Briony Hudson and Dr Caroline Shulman from Pathway and The Marie Curie Palliative Care Research department, University College London, collaborated to create an important Public Engagement opportunity for people who are homeless in London. This project was supported by a Beacon Bursary grant, which are now open for applications. Briony’s project began with her […]

This is a guest post by Rachael Frost and Pushpa Nair from the UCL Centre for Ageing Population Studies sharing learning from their project Engaging with mental health in very late life. This project was funded by a UCL Beacon Bursary. Getting frail older people involved in research can be challenging. Mobility issues, sensory impairments, and potentially some cognitive impairments, […]

How do we connect with communities around us, and how do we maintain those relationships? On the 29th November the Public Engagement Unit hosted a Public Engagement Network meeting on community partnerships. We had really excellent and lively discussions around the benefits, challenges and best practice associated with doing this kind of work, which we […]