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Public Involvement describes the ways in which higher education and research is carried out \u2018with\u2019 or \u2018by\u2019 members of the public rather than \u2018to\u2019, \u2018about\u2019 or \u2018for\u2019 them. In this blog category, you will find out about the different ways in which the Faculty involves the public in our events, projects and training opportunities.<\/em><\/p>\n The Postgraduate Research (PGR) Excellence Awards<\/a> celebrate the contributions and achievements of staff and students in the Faculty’s postgraduate research community. Categories for these prestigious awards include \u2018PGR Student of the Year\u2019, \u2018Best Outstanding Output\u2019 and \u2018Best Contribution to PGR Environment\u2019.<\/p>\n This year\u2019s winner for the \u2018Best Contribution to Society\u2019 in the School of Biological Sciences (SBS) was Jade Pickering, PhD student, for her forward-looking approach in involving the public in her PhD research investigating Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n In 2016, Jade received a Research Involvement Award from Parkinson\u2019s UK<\/a> to help facilitate Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) throughout her PhD. At this time, she was looking to develop a behavioural intervention for people with Parkinson\u2019s who additionally suffer from Impulse Control Behaviours (ICBs). ICBs are usually a direct side-effect of taking the medication that is crucial for treating the symptoms of Parkinson\u2019s itself. To explore the impact of ICBs further, Jade and her team held a focus group at the University (facilitated by Parkinson\u2019s UK<\/a>) with people who have Parkinson\u2019s and their family members. To stay in touch with these volunteers, Jade held teleconferences and maintained contact via email.<\/p>\n Highlighting the benefit of PPI, Jade commented: \u201cThe PPI volunteers were brilliant! They gave us so much feedback including where we\u2019d made the wrong assumptions based on their lived experience, and when we had got things right.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Jade and her team worked with Public Contributors to balance the scientific rationale for the behavioural intervention with the needs of the service-users. As a result of the PPI, the planned study changed quite a lot, with the team focusing on developing a more personalised and patient-driven intervention instead of rushing through to run the trial originally planned. Since then, Parkinson\u2019s UK have been using Jade\u2019s work as a case study for inspiration to other researchers.<\/p>\n You can see some of the outputs from Jade\u2019s focus group here:<\/p>\n In addition to her PPI work for Parkinson\u2019s UK, Jade has:<\/p>\n We are very impressed by Jade\u2019s hard work and dedication to PPI and we wish her a big congratulations on her award. To find out more about Jade\u2019s work, you can follow her on Twitter at @Jade_Pickering<\/a>.<\/p>\n For more information about other PPIE events, training and funding opportunities, you can sign up to our monthly\u00a0digest<\/a>, visit our\u00a0website<\/a>, follow us on\u00a0twitter<\/a>\u00a0or email\u00a0srbmh@manchester.ac.uk<\/a>. 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