• The Cerebra Research Unit: A partnership in childhood disability research
  
  
• Developing foot pain research: The impact of patient involvement on the design of a postal questionnaire and research clinic

• Credibility and the 'professionalized' lay expert: Reflections on the dilemmas and opportunities of public involvement in health research settings
  
  
• 'Feeding' into a research study: Creating the recipe together

• Effective patient and public involvement in research proposals
  
  
• Is user involvement having an impact on research that is funded?

• Defining bullying and developing initiatives
  
  
• Understanding the support needs of BAME families with vulnerable young boys

• Society in science: Why should we involve the public in research?
• Keeping service user involvement in research honest

• User involvement in the ICONS: Identifying Continence OptioNs after Stroke study - A model of collaboration

• Engaging young people in science: Youth involvement at the start of the On the Buses study

• Impact: From techniques and measurement to values and philosophy

• Exploring impact: One year on
• Strengthening the evidence base of involvement: Guidance for reporting the impact of patient and public involvement

• Rewriting the agenda: 'Service users' challenging medical models of 'alcoholism'
• 'Nothing for us without us'

• The Research Design Service and the patient and public involvement agenda
• The Enabling Involvement Fund: Its impacts for researchers and service users

• Involving young people with cancer in research: The National Cancer Research Institute's Teenage and Young Adult (TYA) Core Consumer Group (CLG) - A new and evolving model
• Wanted: Young research staff. The employment of young people as researchers

• 'Perfectly placed inspiration'
• How we do it in Wales

• Network patient research partners in rheumatology
• Living with psychosis: Collaborative research designed by mental health service users

• Inclusive way of working in research: Some participatory approaches

• Patient and nurse generated outcome measures in mental health: Will they have an impact on results of a randomised trial?

• About INVOLVE - an information session

• Impact of public involvement on assistive technology design: Experiences and formative evaluation findings
• The impact of PPI on clinical trial design and operations: Can we demonstrate value for money?
• A volunteer's reflections on participating in clinical research trials

• Successfully developing and implementing an effective regional patient and public involvement in research strategy
• Establishing the North West England People in Research Forum
• Improving collaborative support for public involvement in research: Results of a scoping study in the South West of England
• Can training promote a culture of involvement within a research organisation or department?

• Involving lay people in setting the research agenda
• The first all Wales service user and carer led research group: Developing a model of best practice
• SUGAR: Sweetening service user and carer involvement in mental health research

• How can user involvement in mental health research influence health and social care policy?
• Are guidelines following the guidelines?
• Moving beyond involvement: Describing an emerging process of 'research co-production' in a study of support for self care provided by Mental Health NHS Trusts

• A Day at the Races: The story of the LIMBIC project (including DVD)
• Fulfilling Lives, Fulfilling Research (including DVD)

• Young researchers: Our voices, our lives

• From study to strategy: A co-ordinated approach to patient and public involvement in cancer research

• Changing our worlds: Examples of user controlled research in action

• User involvement in the development of a Kidney Research and Education Initiative
• Learning from experience: User involvement in kidney care research

• Leicester, Northampton and Rutland Research Engaging with Patients (LNR REP Forum)
• Developing a code of ethics for patient and public involvement (PPI) in research design

• Service user and carer involvement in mental health service development: How involved is 'involved'?
• The impact of patient and public involvement (PPI) on NHS healthcare services: A review of the literature

• Working together to explore acceptable and unacceptable aspects of psychological interventions
• Eager to be involved

• How do members of the public have an impact on the design of health research? A review of seven key examples
• Patient and public involvement in translative healthcare research

• Folk.us and complexity theory: Is it possible to assess impact of involvement?
• A conceptual model for evaluating the impact of public involvement in health and social research

• Using a focus group to inform research management decisions
• Using a focus group to inform research management decisions

• Crash, collide and bang? Using a community of practice approach to engage service users and develop resilience and practice

• Speaking a language everyone can understand: Developing a culture of patient and public involvement in clinical research

• Involving seldom heard groups in health care and social research
• FACTOR: Involving carers in mental health research
• Rights and responsibilities: Involving children and young people in research
• The contribution of young people as co-researchers

• Step this way for user involvement: How can charities help facilitate lay involvement in research?
• Peer-to-peer community research: Evaluation of Older Persons Rural Community Development Project
• Service user involvement: A route map for those responsible for prioritising, commissioning and overseeing research
• User involvement in health research: A user perspective

• Research in the field of osteoporosis and joint replacement: What do patients think?
• Establishing a forum for people interested in tissue donation for research
• Lay involvement in healthcare associated infection research: How far have we come?
• How to involve service users in researching impact of policy: Developing and evaluating a way to do this

• Service user and carer involvement in mental health training, education and research in West Yorkshire
• Case study: Evaluation of interactive videos for enhancing benefit of hearing aid users
• Innovative ways of following up early breast cancer patients: The experience of the ibreast trial development group
• The role of a research user support worker: Innovation and impact

• Establishing a patient and public involvement strategy at the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford
• Establishing a research interest group: The experience of the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford
• A survey of consumer involvement in studies at the Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit: What can we learn?
• Evaluation of patient research partners' involvement in a meta-analysis of treatments for cervical cancer

• The history of public involvement in research in the UK: A participatory oral history workshop

• Hearing voices, telling stories

• Changing our worlds: Films about user controlled research

• Making links

• Understanding Folk.us

• Coffee mornings and afternoon teas: Sharing experiences of Telehealth from a patient perspective

• Examples of public involvement in research from Japan, North Korea and USA as well as from other countries outside the UK

• Employing photography to capture the needs of often neglected populations

• Count us in! Involving everyone in health and social care research: Next steps

• Hot tips surgery for researchers

• Writing up research for publication

• Training and support: Where next?

• What to do when things go wrong: Developing good practice

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