ICPHR member Dr. Tina Cook from Northumbria University/UK and colleagues were recently awarded a grant by JISC to set up a knowledge base pilot project for participatory research projects in the health field. The project is a cooperation with Sheffield University, Kings College London and the University of Cambridge in the UK and the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Berlin/Germany. There is currently no technological way of capturing and representing the impact of participatory research (PR). Focusing on participatory health research, this proposal brings together people with expertise in participatory, inclusive and action research, community engagement and impact analysis with technology designers to develop an open, online, interactive CERIF database.


Read more

The Third Annual Working Meeting of the ICPHR was held from 10-12 May 2012 at the Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Coimbra in the city of Coimbra, Portugal. The meeting was preceded by Peer IV, a major conference on peer education and participatory research with youth. Several new initiatives were launched at the meeting to generate common position papers on key aspects of participatory health research and to provide syntheses of current practice. Minutes and pictures of the meeting to be posted soon!