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Public and Patient Involvement and Engagement

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People like you have an important voice in research. Find out how you can shape our research and how we do it.

Recognising the part you play


The Faculty of Medicine and the University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust set up the Public Contributor Recognition Scheme in 2021. The scheme is a way for us to personally recognise public contributors to our health research. It is a positive way for us to say thank you to those who give their time and share their personal experiences with us.

All public contributors and community leaders can be nominated to the scheme by the academics, students or medical professionals they have worked with.

The public contributors who attended the Faculty of Medicine Research Conference in 2023. They all look pleased to be at the conference. They are standing outside the University's new Centenary Building, numbered 100. It is a bright and clear day.
Our public contributors who attended the Faculty of Medicine Research Conference in 2023. They are standing outside the University's Centenary Building.


The Engaged Medicine ‘Inspiring Stories’ blog explores the stories behind outreach and patient-public engagement activities of staff and students from the Faculty of Medicine. 

We talk to patients, members of the public and researchers who are working together to tackle some big health and social care problems. The Collaboratively speaking with UoS podcast explores what brought them together, what kept them talking and the tricks they’ve found to make this work fly.

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