Patient & Public Engagement activities 2011-2025
The interaction with patients as witnesses and teachers has grown into teaching for research, naive GP’s and practice nurses, and exploring the power of stories to communicate the most difficult aspects of clinical trials.
NIHR Barts Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Cardiovascular Public and Patient Advisory Group
• Are you a heart patient/member of the public interested in heart research?
• Would you like to have a say in the heart research we are doing and in related activities?
Many of our group members have personal experience of cardiovascular involvement with or treatment at Barts Health NHS Trust or the William Harvey Research Institute (WHRI). The group’s membership includes two business executives, an educationalist, and three retired persons. Activities group members have taken part in have included commenting on research grants and posters from a lay perspective and taking an active part in the planning of events such as Barts Health Clinical Trials Day, Let's Talk Hearts (free heart talks we run for the general public) and Barts and Queen Mary Science Festival. Membership of the group is also open to interested lay members of the public as well as patients.
2021 marked the 10th year of the NIHR Barts BRC Public and Patient Advisory Group. Many thanks to all our group members past and present for all your help.
If you are interested please contact Jane Batchelor at j.batchelor@qmul.ac.uk
*National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), part of the Department of Health which promotes better understanding of research for patients, public and researchers; The NIHR Barts Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) is one of a number of research centres across the UK funded by the NIHR.
Barts Health NHS Trust International Clinical Trials Day* celebrations
International Clinical Trials Day events are held worldwide around 20th May to celebrate the anniversary of the first clinical trial by James Lind in 1747 into the causes of scurvy on board the HMS Salisbury. Read more
Interested in finding out more about James Lind and how clinical trials can help with clinical research? Read more
Past activities
June 2025
PPAG members assisted with this year's Barts and Queen Mary Science Festival.
Lots of science themed activities are still available on the Science Festival website.
April 2025
PPAG members assisted with the planning and running of a Let's Talk Heart talk at the Idea Store Whitechapel.
PPAG members assisted with this year's Barts and Queen Mary Science Festival.
Lots of science themed activities are still available on the Science Festival website.
January 2024
PPAG members actively contributed to a presentation on public engagement at the Derek Willoughby lecture theatre.
PPAG members and placement students learning about public engagement ran an exhibition stand at the FMD Industry Day celebrating PPAG activities. QMUL Industry Connect Day - Cardiovascular and Metabolism [PDF 1,837KB]
Barts and Queen Mary Science Festival - this was virtual in format with many science themed activities still available on the Science Festival website.
Festival of Communities - in person event at Queen Mary University of London's Mile End campus/Stepney Green Park. Activities at this year's Festival of Communities included exhibition stand and workshops by Let's talk hearts and Trials Connect.
In both years PPAG members took part in and helped out at the Barts Health Research Matters Evening and local exhibition stands.
2017
May activities included a Let's Talk Hearts talk on Barts Bioresource, an information stand at Barts Health Research Matters evening with staff/volunteers on hand to answer queries and a stand in the Barts clinical area with staff from Barts Bioresource.