Engagement in Research Nuts & Bolts: Specific Approaches for Engaging Patient & Community Partners in Research

There is no "one-size-fits-all" approach to engaging patient, community, or other partners in your research! Rather, there are a variety of engagement methods to suit your study's needs, your research team's capacity, and your partners' interests.

This online training will describe three common approaches for working with patient, community, and other partners in your research: 1) consultative community feedback sessions; 2) advisory boards; and 3) sustained collaboration with partners as Co-Principal Investigators or members of the research team.

The session will cover considerations for choosing these specific engagement methods, as well as concrete processes and steps for implementing each approach. Participation in our Engagement in Research 101 training is not required to attend this session; however, some knowledge of engagement, whether from prior training(s) or personal experience, may foster deeper understanding of the material in this session.

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The Engaging Patient, Community, and Other Partners in Your Research: Online Training Series is a 3-part online training series about engaging patient, community, and other partners in research. You may register for the entire series OR any single training session.

Part 1will focus on the basics of research engagement, providing an overview of patient and community engagement and its benefits, debunking common myths and misconceptions, and providing considerations and next steps for incorporating engagement approaches into your research.

Part 2 will cover specific engagement methods, including consultative community feedback sessions, advisory boards, and working with patient and community partners as members of a research team and/or Co-Principal Investigators.

Part 3 will focus on the nuances of building and maintaining partnerships, outlining best practices for developing and strengthening mutually beneficial partnerships and discussing common partnership challenges and solutions.

This training series was developed collaboratively with patient, community, and researcher partners and is co-sponsored by the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and NC TraCS Institute.

There are a bewildering number of different kinds of graphs. There are conflicting recommendations (always show 0 on the axis, don't show 0 if the data don't include that value…). How do you know what's the right way to plot your data?

This talk will cover principles you can use to understand ways of presenting data and decide what's best for your situation.

Presenter: Jeff Laux, PhD
Research Associate, NC TraCS Biostatistics

Format: ~1 hour talk, 30 min Q&A

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The NC TraCS Biostatistics Seminar Series provides more in-depth discussion of select biostatistical topics for clinical and translational researchers who have basic quantitative training in biostatistical methods. Join us this fall for seminars on power analysis & sample size planning, parameter interpretation in generalized mixed regression models, basic steps in questionnaire development, and choosing the right graphs and tables for your data.

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Mobile Health Intervention in Heart Failure and Diabetes: Lessons Learned

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:

G. Michael Felker, MD, MHS
Professor of Medicine
Director, Cardiovascular and Metabolism Research, DCRI

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Fall 2022 Seminar Series Co-Sponsored by the UNC Gillings Department of Nutrition and the UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center

In-Person Seminar, Emerging Scientific Priorities at the NIEHS, with Rick Woychik, PhD, Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).

Location: 241 Rosenau Hall

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