Awards for public involvement and engagement at the Cicely Saunders Institute
29th January 2024
The Cicely Saunders Institute recently won two awards for its public involvement work.
The EMBED-Care team were selected for their work engaging young people about palliative dementia care research at a Science Museum event celebrating the 75th birthday of the NHS last July. The team developed a suite of activities, collectively named ‘the D words’. Visitors were invited to take part in activities including a card game, a wishing tree, and a myth buster quiz, as well as having the opportunity to chat to the research team about dying with dementia.
The Cicely Saunders Institute Public Involvement team also received an award for implementing a co-developed public involvement strategy for palliative care research. The group includes lived experience experts Margaret Ogden, Rashmi Kumar, Pam Smith, Marion Sumerfield and Alan Quarterman and Institute staff Lisa Brighton, Sarah Crabtree, Beka Torlay, Cat Harvey, Halle Johnson, India Tunnard, Tofunmi Aworinde, Jo Bayly, Joana Goodrich, Juliet Gillam, Monica Oancea, Steve Marshall and Catherine Evans.
The group co-developed and implemented a Public Involvement Strategy to strengthen meaningful collaboration with lived experts and community partners, and enrich research at the Cicely Saunders Institute. The strategy has ensured that public involvement is at the core of the institutes research culture, has led to increased diversity of members involved, increased influence at a strategic level and partnerships with other organisations to build local, national and international capacity in public involvement in palliative care.
For more information about public involvement at the Cicely Saunders Institute please email us or visit the website.