Patient Involvement and Public Engagement

Alongside research and education, public engagement is essential for modernising and transforming research. Engaging with and learning from public audiences aids in training the next generation of researchers and clinicians, and helps inform the wider medical and scientific community.

By involving patients and embracing their insight through online or face-to-face events and activities, we can push boundaries and level up standards, increase clinical trial recruitment, and improve clinical practices.

Click the images below to see some of the ways we’re using public and patient engagement to improve the impact of our work and bridge gaps between our research and the wider community.

Meet the team

The CRUK City of London Radiation Research Centre’s Patient/Public Involvement/Engagement (PPIE) strategy and activities are managed by a core committee of representatives from across University College London, King’s College London, Queen Mary University of London and The Francis Crick: 

Our ambitions

Our committees aim to engage with patients, caregivers and members of the public in discussions about radiotherapy and radiation research to: 

• Understand and improve public perceptions of radiotherapy 

• Support the public to make informed decisions about radiotherapy 

• Inform how we design new radiation therapies or improve existing ones, particularly for children 

• Understand mental health issues that arise in patients receiving radiotherapy or their loved ones 

• Communicate widely the advances and novel methods we discover through our cutting-edge radiation research 

• Ensure our research remains relevant and can impact patients’ lives as soon as possible

Our patient and public partners

We are truly grateful to everyone who has supported our work over the years. One-off or ongoing, every input makes a difference and brings our ambitious research a step closer to improving real-world care.

We now want to broaden the depth and breadth of our public engagement and involvement activity so that more people have the opportunity to both learn about and inform our work. If you have personal experience of radiation or radiotherapy, whether as a patient or a parent, carer or loved one, please join our CoL RadNet Public Involvement Network. Through this mailing list, we will share all our involvement opportunities, as well as relevant engagement events and activities. We also hope to share occasional newsletters showcasing, in plain English, the latest advances in radiation research and therapy developments from our researchers and affiliated partners, as well as how your input is helping.

If you would like to know more about our Involvement Network, or have more general questions about involvement/engagement in our research, please get in touch (Mon-Thurs) on: PPIE.radnetcol@ucl.ac.uk.