Research User Group Newsletter Keele University RUG Summer newsletter 2018 | Page 32

NEWS IN BRIEF
Patient and Public Involvement and
Engagement is going global - in fact, two
members of the team will be spreading the
word in Sri Lanka at the end of July. The
Medical Research Council (MRC) has funded
a £200,000 research partnership which
will establish a register of infant, child, and
adolescent twins in Sri Lanka. The register will
create a foundation for future research into
mental illness within low and middle-income
countries. Adele Higginbottom and Steven
Blackburn will join colleagues Professor
Athula Sumathipala, Christian Mallen and
Tom Shepherd at the three day conference,
working with Prof. Sumathipala on a pre-
conference workshop on PPIE.
RUG member and Arthritis Research UK
campaigner Christine Walker has been
featured on the charity’s latest campaign
around ‘Aids and Adaptations,’ Christine
spent a day with a professional film crew
at her home to demonstrate the day to day
difficulties of living with arthritis. You can read
more about Christine’s journey, and watch the
video, on the Arthritis Research UK website
https://www.arthritisresearchuk.org/support-
us/get-involved/campaign-with-us/current-
campaigns/care-and-support/aids-and-
adaptations.aspx
LINK group member and Haywood Hospital
volunteer Patricia Callaghan has joined the
committee of the Haywood Foundation.
You can read more about Patricia here: http://
www.haywoodfoundation.org.uk/
This year, the PPIE team are focussing
on three main themes - Dissemination,
Diversity and improving standards. In
line with this and following on from the
Annual Meeting in 2017, the LINK group
have put together a Dissemination Toolkit for
Knowledge Mobilisation and the Promotion of
Innovation, to aid researchers in sharing their
research findings with wider audiences.