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At a glance<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>

1:1 conversation<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>

The Bournemouth University Public Involvement in Education and Research (BU PIER) Community Researcher Model has been developed by the Bournemouth University PIER Partnership. The approach ensures that lived experience expertise is at the heart of all stages of a project. It enables equitable, diverse, and inclusive involvement.<\/p>\n

The model facilitates connecting and building relationships with community organisations, supporting the involvement of people who might otherwise have been unwilling to engage in organisation led research. It is an effective approach to capturing deep and rich lived experience from people who are currently under-served by health and social care research and is a way of working where everyone involved can learn and grow together.<\/p>\n

The model is based on the principle that people most affected by health and social care research are often the least involved in shaping and informing it. The BU PIER Community Researcher Model \u2018flips\u2019 this, addressing health and social inequalities by building capacity and expertise within communities, supporting the community to address and identify their own solutions to local needs.<\/p>\n

For each project the approach is co-designed with the community organisation, and community researchers, and often evolves over time.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

About this approach<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Useful for talking with<\/h5><\/div>

People with lived experience and people who are currently under-served by health and social care research, including particularly marginalised communities. This approach ensures those connecting and having conversations, and capturing what people want to say are from the same community with shared lived experiences.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Purpose of this type of conversation<\/h5><\/div>

Provide support to community organisations, who in turn support members of their community with lived experience to be community researchers. The model is a stepped approach that facilitates community researchers to have meaningful conversations within their communities and to lead on research.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Type of conversation<\/h5><\/div>

Community led exploration of topics identified by and that matter most to the community.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Training requirements<\/h5><\/div>

The BU PIER Community Researcher Model is supported by BU PIER Partnership in line with the needs of the partner community organisation(s).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Budget requirements<\/h5><\/div>

Costs depend on length and size of project, level of support required. All public contributors are \u2018paid\u2019 in recognition of their time and expertise contributed.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Time commitments<\/h5><\/div>

Depends on length and size of project. All community researcher activities are supported before, during, and after the activity and support is tailored to meet the individual needs of the community researcher.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Community Researcher Model<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Where we’ve used this locally<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>