Training: Developing inclusive partnerships in Health and Wellbeing

How can you develop and maintain sustainable partnerships across sectors built around mutual priorities, interests and needs? How can you engage and co-develop with communities inclusively? What conversations are needed and what should be explored in the lead up to a partnership agreement? This interactive session will cover different principles of equitable community and collaborative engagement through case-studies, and provide space and support to explore practically how you can apply this to your own context, research and developing partnerships.

Biography

Lewis Hou is founder and director of Science Ceilidh, an intermediary organisation supporting cultural and knowledge democracy. He currently coordinates The Ideas Fund and Highlands & Islands Climate Change Community Network flipping the traditional model of research by directly funding over 35 grassroots communities to lead researcher partnerships - on mental wellbeing, culture and climate change. He is a Fellow of the Young Academy of Scotland as well as a UK Creative Community Fellows, and was recently awarded the Beetlestone Award for leadership and legacy in the science engagement field. He is most interested in how we change practice, systems and policy to support genuine shifts in power to grassroots communities - especially those most underrepresented in these conversations - and he also facilitates a new network Community Knowledge Matters to lead this work - and researchers and stakeholders from across the UK are welcome to join. He also recently wrote a series of blogs with the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement including a piece on the challenge of co-production.

Please note: There are limited places for this session, so places will be allotted on a first-come, first-served basis.