Find out about upcoming events and view materials and recording from past events
We host workshops and webinars on current themes to help develop the community engagement field and generate new ideas and partnerships. We also share materials from externally planned workshops that are relevant to Mesh users. If you would like to use Mesh to share resources and learning from an event that you are planning please contact us.
2023
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6 Feb 2023
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E-book launch! This e-book explores approaches taken by engagement practitioners, engagement scholars, social scientists, and researchers to promote listening and responding to community voices in research processes. It seeks to understand the challenges that obstruct meaningful integration of community voices in research design and responsiveness to expressions of needs and aspirations for change, in low-and-middle-income countries. The Research Topic draws experience from numerous majority world countries and explores multiple global health challenges and research approaches |
2022
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13 Oct 2022 Webinar: Community Engagement with AMR: Responsive Dialogues in practice |
To address antimicrobial resistance (AMR), community engagement needs to be combined with stakeholder engagement across sectors. The Responsive Dialogues approach provides guidance for this, generating practical steps to tackle AMR at community and policy level. This webinar included speakers from Malawi-LiverpoolWellcome Trust in Malawi and Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Thailand, who shared insights from two country pilots.
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22 Sept 2022 Webinar: Voices from the Pandemic: COVID-19 experiences in Asia
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Jointly hosted by Mesh and CONNECT, this webinar introduced digital diaries - short films and photographs - created by community members in Nepal, Indonesia and Vietnam reflecting on their experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Speakers, including a film maker involved in the project, described the practicalities and challenges of engaging with communities and reflected on how the digital diaries method can be an empowering tool. |
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Dec 2021 - July 2022 Webinar Series: Community Engagement within Research Uptakein partnership with our sister hub ARCH
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If research is to deliver its maximum impact and positively change health outcomes, findings from health research should be translated into recommendations that are relevant to communities and can be implemented within policy and practice. ARCH and Mesh are working in partnership to present a new webinar series exploring the role of community engagement within the process of research uptake. Webinar 5: Sexual and Gender Rights | 21 July 2022 |
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18 May 2022 Taking relationships seriously: Findings from a realist review of community engagement
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Watch this webinar on the REAL Community Engagement Realist Review where the research team shared some of their fascinating findings. The REAL project aimed to provide more conceptual clarity around how engagement works in practice and looked at published papers and engagement work within malaria research in low- and middle-income countries. The review highlights some key relationship and power dynamics at the heart of engagement work and a range of factors that enable and constrain it. |
2021
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Webinar Series: Community Engagement within Research Uptakein partnership with our sister hub ARCH
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If research is to deliver its maximum impact and positively change health outcomes, findings from health research should be translated into recommendations that are relevant to communities and can be implemented within policy and practice. |
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Workshop Series: Connectors in Engagementin partnership with Eh!woza and Interfer in South Africa
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Connectors supports discussions about the key role that engagement professionals, creatives, community groups and other organisations play in bridging the gap between research and communities. These ‘Connectors’ often have unique skills and experience, existing ways of working with the public, and can be essential in a successful engagement project. We hosted a three virtual workshops in 2021 with the aim of identifying challenges and opportunities, generating new ideas and enabling new collaborations. |
2020
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Workshop: Trusting, Collaborating and Listening - Engaging Public and Communities with Vaccine Studies
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A theme area has been created following a four day Mesh workshop exploring public and community engagement with vaccine research. This area shares videos, exercises, projects, links to published literature, and many free guidelines and tools. It explores the topic through four themes:
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Webinar: Engagement at a distance - Sharing Lessons from experience
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Webinar: Public Engagement and Involvement in Health Research: How well are we doing?
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This webinar from July 2020 was organised through a collaboration between the International PPI Network, the NIHR Global Health Programme and Mesh.Speakers asked how well do we really 'do' public engagement and involvement in research in different parts of the world? The UK has a long history of these type of activities, but do they provide the benchmark for best practice? Researchers in South Africa are making significant efforts to tackle the nation’s health challenges and community engagement plays a critical role, but are they approaching it the right way? What can we learn from each other to help us improve? |
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Webinar: Why is it important for health researchers to engage school students?
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Launching the Mesh School Engagement theme area and Research In Focus lecture series, Dr Alun Davies, Schools Engagement Lead at KEMRI | Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya, outlines the goals, methods and outcomes of school engagement as a “win-win” engagement approach for both researchers and students. This lecture draws on experiences and reflections from KEMRI | Wellcome’s School Engagement Programme and from an international practitioners workshop held in 2018. Visit our School Engagement theme area for futher resources across a range of approaches and methods |
2018
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Taking it to the Next Level: How can we generate leadership and develop practice in engagement?
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2017
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Evaluating Community Engagement: Workshop
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It’s Complicated: Navigating scientific complexity in public and community engagement
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2016
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Ethics and Politics of Community Engagement in Global Health Research
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The Art of Health: Exploring creative engagement with health research
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2015
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Global Food Matters: An appetite for engaging with research |
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