"INVOLVE perspectives on learning and development", presented by Sarah Buckland, INVOLVE, at the EUPATI-UK Network Conference on 6 March 2014 in Leeds, UK

1. Sarah Buckland
Director, INVOLVE Coordinating Centre
sbuckland@invo.org.uk
www.involve.nihr.ac.uk
EUPATI-UK Network Key stakeholders
International Conference March 2014
INVOLVE perspectives on learning
and development

2. A national advisory group funded
by, the National Institute for
Health Research (NIHR).
INVOLVE members
 service
users, carers, members of the
public
 people from voluntary sector
organisations
 researchers, public
involvement specialists
 health and social care
practitioners
What is INVOLVE? What do we do?
Promote and support active public
involvement in NHS, public health and
social care research in England to
help improve the quality of research
and so improve the health and well
being of the population.

3. • Involvement
- where members of the public are actively involved in
research projects and in research organisations. Research
being carried out ‘with’ or ‘by’ members of the public rather
than ‘to’, ‘about’ or ‘for’ them.
• Engagement
- where information and knowledge about research is
provided and disseminated.
• Participation
- where people take part in a research study.
What do we mean by involvement?

4. • INVOLVE online resource (2012)
• INVOLVE Conference 2012
• Stakeholder workshop (January 2013)
• Established time limited NIHR wide learning and development
working group (March 2013)
INVOLVE approach to learning and
development:

5. • Planning training
• Planning support
• Carrying out a needs assessment for training and support
• Training and support for research panel members
• Training and support for project advisory group members
• Training and support for steering group members
• Case studies/ examples of learning and development
INVOLVE online resource
(http://www.invo.org.uk/resource-centre/training-resource/)
Content of resource
Offering advice and guidance to help develop training and support
packages specific to individuals (researchers and public) and
organisations own contexts
Purpose of resource

6. • INVOLVE 2012 Conference
- participants identified need for more learning and development
opportunities
- researchers reported having less access to learning and
development than public
- public involvement managers expected to offer learning and
development opportunities for public but felt poorly equipped to
do so
INVOLVE 2012 Conference feedback
- when asked what INVOLVE could do to improve quality of
involvement, learning and development recurring theme for
researchers and public
Growing awareness of the importance and
need for learning and development
opportunities

7. • To initiate and support an NIHR wide approach to ensure all public
involvement activity has integrated learning and development
opportunities for members of the public, researchers and research
support staff as appropriate.
• Support for learning and development to be included in all public
involvement strategies across NIHR partner organisations
• Develop ways to share good practice and progress in meeting learning
and development needs across partner organisations
• Promote regional and sector wide collaborations for learning and
development
Stakeholder workshop (NIHR) – aims and
priorities for a strategic approach to
learning and development

8. • Working group established following stakeholder workshop
• Time limited – (March 2013 – Summer 2014)
• Chaired by Simon Denegri (Chair INVOLVE and Director for
patient engagement and participation)
• Membership from across NIHR organisations and INVOLVE
members
• Reporting back to Department of Health
NIHR wide learning and development
working group

9. • Learner-centred approach to involvement
- Sensitive to context depending on the individuals needs (e.g.
skills, knowledge and experience) and the involvement role
(task undertaking)
• Importance of co-learning (public and researchers learning
alongside one another) and co-production (public and researchers
involved in designing and delivering learning)
• Need for choice about what, when and how people learn
Approach to learning and development

10. • Tools / frameworks - examples to support individuals and
organisations consider their learning and development needs
(website)
• Resources available to support involvement (website)
• Establishing an online forum to share knowledge and support
about the task of reviewing.
• Consideration of the potential value of developing competency
frameworks for involvement in peer reviewing
• Developing framework of essential principles for learning for
involvement
Work in progress -emerging outputs from
learning and development group

11. • Shared interest in learning and
development to support patient
involvement in research
INVOLVE – work in progress
• learning and development for public
and researchers
• developing frameworks, principles
and resources for others to use but
not training courses
INVOLVE and EUPATI – complementary but
different activities