Public and Community Involvement and Engagement (PCIE): A How-to Guide

1. Contents
2. Introduction
   1. Introduction
   2. An overview of ARC KSS
   3. Who can help you with PCIE?
   4. Terminology and PCIE
3. Why and When to do PCIE
   1. Why and When to do PCIE
   2. Why involve members of the public in research?
   3. Why do members of the public want to get involved in research?
   4. When to get members of the public involved?
4. How to do PCIE
   1. How to do PCIE
   2. Communication and Accessibility
   3. Budgeting
   4. Planning for involvement and engagement
   5. How to recruit members of the public
   6. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)
   7. Approaches – different options for undertaking PCIE
   8. Facilitating meetings and Group dynamics
   9. Ethics
   10. Feedback
   11. Impact and Evaluation
5. Examples/Case Studies
6. Appendix/Useful tools

Acknowledgements: We would like to thank our Theme Public Advisors Karin Webb and Sarah Giles and our Board Public Advisors Jason Grant and Michelle Gardener, along with researchers Alice Tunks, Jane Povey and Richard de Visser, who co-designed this guide with us.