“We are not hard to reach, but we may find it hard to trust” …. Involving and engaging ‘seldom listened to’ community voices in clinical translational health research: a social innovation approach
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Public involvement in clinical translational research is increasingly recognised as essential for relevant and reliable research. Public involvement must be diverse and inclusive to enable research that has the potential to reach those that stand to benefit from it the most, and thus address issues of health equity. Several recent reports, however, indicate that public involvement is exclusive, including in its interactions with ethnic groups. This paper outlines a novel community-led methodology – a community sandpit – to address the inclusion of ethnic groups in public involvement in research, reports on its evaluation, findings, legacy and impact. Through detailed planning – thinking through and taking into account all stakeholders perspectives in the planning and design of the sandpit, relationship-building, co-design and co-delivery between the Public Programmes team based at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust and the Greater Manchester Black and Minority Ethnic Network - the community sandpit was held in July 2018. Fifteen community organisations took part in the two-day event, as well as six researchers, and six creative practitioners. Six community-based partnership projects were seed-funded; four of these received additional funding from other sources also. Evaluation of the sandpit showed the format to be well-received by all: it levelled power relationships between community organisations, health researchers and research infrastructure; it developed capacity amongst researchers about the accessibility, role and potential of community organisations. Described as “not another community seed fund” by community partners, the sandpit offered community partners, equitable avenues for collaboration within Greater Manchester translational research and led to the formation of the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Research Advisory Group (BRAG Vocal Website information, -
https://www.wearevocal.org/opportunities/black-asian-and-minority-ethnic-research-advisory-group-brag/
, 2021). The method has the potential to be replicated elsewhere to support inclusive public involvement in research and inclusive research. Public involvement in “bench to bedside” research (from laboratory-based research to clinical practice) is increasingly recognised as essential for relevant and reliable research. To enable the findings from health research to meet the needs of those who stand to benefit from it the most and to ensure that differences in health and disease are reduced as much as possible, public involvement must be diverse and inclusive. Recent reports, however, indicate that public involvement is exclusive, including in its interactions with racially minoritised groups. This paper outlines a novel community-led methodology – a community sandpit – to address the inclusion of ethnic groups in public involvement in research, reports on its evaluation, findings, legacy and impact. Through detailed planning – thinking through and taking into account all stakeholders perspectives in the planning and design of the sandpit, relationship-building, co-design and co-delivery between the Public Programmes Team (now Vocal) based at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust worked with the Greater Manchester Black and Minority Ethnic Network - the community sandpit was held in July 2018. Fifteen community organisations took part in the two-day event, as well as six researchers, and six creative practitioners (artists with experience of working with the public on socially engaged projects to engage them in areas such as science). Six community-based partnership projects were seed-funded; four of these received additional funding from other sources. Evaluation of the sandpit showed the format to be well-received by all: it levelled power relationships between community organisations, health researchers and research infrastructure; it increased researchers knowledge and insights about the accessibility of community organisations and of how they might work effectively with them. Described as “not another community seed fund” by community partners, the sandpit began the process of levelling the playing field for collaboration between Greater Manchester translational research and local community organisations and led to the formation of the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Research Advisory Group (BRAG) (Vocal Website information, -
https://www.wearevocal.org/opportunities/black-asian-and-minority-ethnic-research-advisory-group-brag/
, 2021). The method has the potential to be repeated elsewhere to support inclusive public involvement in research and inclusive research.
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