AI-Multiply PPIE: Sharing, Connecting, Shaping the Future Event – 10th March 2026

This event offered a chance for PPIE professionals from across the region to come together, exchange

best practice and explore the impact of PPIE within our project. It aimed to open the work to a wider audience,

spark new connections and create fresh opportunities for future PPIE collaboration and involvement.

Welcome

Professor Mike Barnes (Co-Principle Investigator)

PPIE – From Paper to Practise

PPIE Aims and Plans – Olivia Grant – (PPIE Co-Lead)

Olivia tells us of the plans and process of designing and securing funding for the project and the importance placed on PPIE from the outset.

Shared leadership: PPIE in research management Victoria Bartle – (PPIE Co-Lead)

Victoria shares the creation of the PPIE Management group and it’s role in designing and delivering the PPIE in AI-MULTIPLY.

Creative Methods

Artwork and Animations – Elizabeth Alice Remfrey (QMUL PhD student) and Grainne Colligan (Social Action for Health SAfH)

Patient Informed Forum Theatre – Claire Hills-Wilson – (Independent creative methods specialist) and Victoria Bartle

Claire and Victoria talk us through the challenges and highlights of creating a piece of Forum Theatre within an AI study.

I Poems – Fiona Cammack – PPIE Mgmt group

Fiona explains the purpose, benefits and experience of using I Poems as a qualitative research method.

Co-Production

PPIE in Unusual Spaces – Sue Mountain – (PPIE Mgmt group)

Voices of Reflection

ECR sessions – Giorgia Perry – (PPIE contributor)

Giorgia shares her experience of attending the ECR sessions

Upskilling PPIE contributors – Madhia Sajid – (PPIE contributor)

Madhia speaks of her experience and learnings from being part of the AI-MULTIPLY PPIE group.

Skills in Action – Samina Begum – (PPIE contributor)

Samina tells us of skills she has developed from this project and how it has helped her to develop as a PPIE contributor.

From Evaluation to Publication – Duncan Reynolds – (Research Fellow QMUL)

Duncan explains the plans and progress of our PPIE evaluation.

Panel Discussion – Madhia Sajid, Samina Begum and Duncan Reynolds

The audience poses questions to the panel

What the Future Holds

Impact of PPIE – Victoria Bartle and Fiona Cammack

Victoria and Fiona tell us about the Impact of PPIE within AI-MULTIPLY and pose questions to the audience of how to further develop and implement these findings.

Advancing PPIE together – Panel Discussion – Nick Reynolds, Mike Barnes, Olivia Grant, Victoria Bartle, Elizabeth Alice Remfrey, Grainne Colligan

The audience poses questions to the panel

Closing – Nick Reynolds – (Co-Principle Investigator)