PPIE Outputs
Advertising unhealthy food to children: How much is too much?
Check out our animation on advertising unhealthy foods.
Healthier Eating in Pregnancy
Check out our infographic for a guideline to healthy eating while pregnant.
Weight Stigma: A Barrier to Health Equity
HWPRU researcher, Dr. Simon Russell, writes an article drawing on our recent research to argue that the academic community has a role to play and a responsibility to act. Read the article on Page 12
Patient and Public Involvement Portfolio 2017-2022
Check out our portfolio of our Patient and Public Involvement from our previous Obesity Policy Research Unit work.
Our Strategy
Our overarching aim is to frame the voices of the public and people with lived experience of issues relating to weight (including healthy eating, being active and stigma) at the heart of our research by integrating patient and public involvement (PPI) throughout everything we do.
We will aim to conduct meaningful PPI at all stages of our research, by working with children, young people and adults with relevant lived experience. These public members will provide valuable input in conceiving and planning work, co-designing methods and public-facing materials for the studies, interpreting study findings and producing creative outputs as part of a broad dissemination strategy.
The public members we work with will help us ensure the wording of our dissemination materials is appropriate and widely understood.
Read our full PPI Strategy.
Key Principles
Along with our PPI co-leads we have identified the following key principles for undertaking all our PPI activities:
- To use person-first and inclusive language.
- To ensure communication with contributors and the public uses language that is accessible for broad and diverse groups.
- We will use non-stigmatising images in any outputs related to weight, eating and physical activity in line with the UK Association for the Study of Obesity guidelines.
- To incorporate EDI principles in everything we do by striving for fairness of opportunity, to recognise, respect and celebrate difference, and to create welcoming environments. EDI university networks will be extended to public contributors. These networks provide guiding principles to creating safe places for people with shared identities and backgrounds to connect and make positive changes together.
- To co-design and produce in a way that authenticates input from public members.
- To frame the lived experiences of people with issues relating to unhealthy weight and the mechanisms by which it develops (e.g., food insecurity, poverty or disadvantage) within our work. We aim to move beyond weight change, and highlight the wellbeing of people living with excess weight as an important outcome.
Payment and recognition
We reimburse all PPIE activity in line with NIHR guidance and in accordance with our institutional Travel and Expenses policies.
The PPIE payment policy can be found here.
The NIHR Policy Research Unit in Healthy Weight is part of the NIHR and hosted by UCL