Improving Health and Wellbeing for People in Local Communities
July 3, 2025
A call for people with experience of community-based projects to improve health and/or wellbeing. Deadline for interest 31 July 2025.
We are committed to involving patients, carers and all people who use health and social care services in our activities.
“Public involvement in research is research ‘with’ or ‘by’ members of the public rather than ‘to’, ‘about’ or ‘for’ them.”
We work in partnership with members of the public from our local communities in our projects, our research themes, and on our central committees. Regular opportunities to be involved are available.
The Strategy is underpinned by the key principles of Co-Production.
Our Strategy includes the following sections:
The Strategy will be reviewed Annually by a Strategy Group to ensure that ARC WM achieves its strategic aims.
NIHR ARC WM host monthly online PPI sessions for those interested in learning more about PPI in health and social care research. These one-hour sessions allow for informal discussions amongst like-minded people, and feature a 20 minute overview of a PPI-related written piece, and a 40 minute broad discussion of reflections among attendees.
Further talks are planned for later in 2025 and will be announced in due course.
If you would like to receive calendar invites for forthcoming PPI Lunchtime talks, please fill in this short form.
Email: M.T.Skrybant@bham.ac.uk
Tel: 0121 414 6026
Magdalena is the Public Involvement Senior Manager for NIHR ARC WM. She is responsible for the operations of Public Involvement and is the dedicated contact for public contributors and staff in ARC WM in all matters relating to public involvement and engagement.
Emma has 24 years of work experience in Health and Social Care mostly within the Mental Health sector. She is a qualified Social Worker and has worked in both the Voluntary and Statutory sector. Her work has mostly involved areas of Community Development, Social Inclusion, Co-production and Equality and Diversity.
Email: Sophie.Staniszewska@warwick.ac.uk
Sophie is Professor of Patient and Public Involvement and Experiences of Care and is based at the University of Warwick (staff profile).
Email: C.Jackson.7@bham.ac.uk
Caroline leads Public Involvement for the ARC National Priority Programme for Adult Social Work & Social Care, which has a dedicated Public Involvement Group. Caroline also supports a number of research projects in ARC WM’s Social Care Theme. Her interests include: participatory work, lived experience and the voluntary social care sector engagement in research.
Email: s.pius@bham.ac.uk
Shilpa has recently joined ARC WM as a Public Involvement Officer. Before this, she was part of the PPIE Team at Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre, following five years working within the Research and Development department at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.
Her role is to support the PPIE Team at ARC WM to ensure the smooth delivery of strategic objectives, helping to coordinate activities, streamline processes, and foster a collaborative environment that enables impactful and inclusive research.
A call for people with experience of community-based projects to improve health and/or wellbeing. Deadline for interest 31 July 2025.
The SURGE (Same day and URGEnt care) Workforce Research Partnership are looking for members of the public who would like to shape research priorities in same day and urgent care research.
The July 2025 seminar will take place online on 4 July 2025, on the topic of behaviour that challenges in children with an intellectual disability.