Epilepsy in English Workshops
Year Awarded
2020
Amount
€32,916
- Organisation:RCSI University of Medicine and Health Science (RCSI)
- Audience:General Public
- Format:Non-formal Education
- Location:Online
- Topic:STEAM
Project Summary
Our project comprises four workshops, with accompanying online resources, aiming to educate, equip and empower contributors to co-create fully-engaged research.
Specifically, our aims are to:
1) Educate contributors about the research process by increasing awareness and understanding of the available literature.
2) Equip contributors with the knowledge and tools to create fully engaged research.
3) Empower and enable contributors to become engaged in basic and translational epilepsy research.
These aims will be achieved through a combination of interactive workshop sessions, alongside World Café-style agenda-setting methodologies, to maximise inclusion, engagement and co-creation, accompanied by complementary online learning resources which will be freely available to all.
The project has been co-created by the FutureNeuro Research Centre, Epilepsy Ireland, DCU PPI Ignite and a person with epilepsy, and builds upon the successful ‘Epilepsy in English’ initiative. Workshops, hosted in easily accessible FutureNeuro third level institute partners, will take place in four distinct geographical locations throughout Ireland which have been identified as having lower STEM engagement. Each aspect of the workshops has been tailored in order to maximise accessibility, inclusion and outcomes for all contributors, including the provision of travel bursaries to enable attendance.
This project will ultimately build an Ireland-wide epilepsy community comprised of all stakeholders, which builds capacity for co-creation of fully-engaged research models that will form a case study that can be applied on a global scale.