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Resource library

Welcome to our resource library and useful links page.

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Sussex REN reports & recommendations

  • Engaging Marginalised Communities: Sussex REN community research report exploring how people from marginalised communities experience the NHS and health and care research, with practical recommendations to improve inclusion, engagement and trust.
  • Mental Health Research Engagement Network report: showcasing five creative mental health research projects focused on women and people who use women’s services from marginalised communities, highlighting effective engagement approaches and lessons for inclusive research practice.
  • Sussex Cancer Research Centre PCIE report: a co developed Public and Community Involvement and Engagement (PCIE) action plan informed by community researchers, to improve participation, equity and trust in Sussex cancer research and services.
  • Sussex REN Impact Report – available soon.
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Resources for health and care researchers

  • Guidance to work with Community Researchers (Research for you and me): A practical, co produced guide supporting health and care researchers to work effectively with community researchers, offering tools, timelines and checklists to embed inclusive and ethical research practice.
  • Guidance Toolkit for inclusion of people with language needs in health and care research in Sussex: Produced by REN partner, Sussex Interpreting Services (SIS) – available soon.
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Guidance & information

  • Webinar: Using lived experience to create research: a practical introduction to how lived experience can inform, shape and strengthen research, with examples of co design, public involvement, and participatory approaches across health and public health settings.
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