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  • Presentations from the workshop.

    Presentations from the workshop.

    The presentations from the workshop are now available from slideshare. These are in addition to the recording of Liz Lyon opening the event. Crowdsourcing Lay Summaries: Bridging the Gap in Health Research by Liz Lyon Accessing Biomedical and Health Information by Lee-Ann Coleman .prezi-player { width: 550px; } .prezi-player-links { text-align: center; } JISCPP on [...]

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  • Workshop Speakers

    Workshop Speakers

    At the workshop I managed to record the welcome and introduction to the project by Liz Lyon using a Flip camera, and this is now available from vimeo. Warning: there is flash photography which can be seen in the recording. Liz Lyon opening the Patients Participate! Workshop, Jun 2011 from UKOLN on Vimeo. The Biographies for [...]

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  • After the workshop: a thank you.

    After the workshop: a thank you.

    The project team would like to thank all those who came to the Patients Participate! workshop on Friday 17th June 2011.  We are very encouraged by the level of attendance and engagement during the event.  We are very appreciative of the information and views we have gathered through your input, and we will be producing [...]

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  • The Patients Participate! Workshop

    The Patients Participate! Workshop

    Bridging the Gap between Information Access and Understanding in Health Research 17 June 2011 The British Library Conference Centre We now have more access than ever to scientific papers and summaries of biomedical and health research. Anyone with a computer and an internet connection can read the latest research results due to initiatives like UK [...]

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  • Introducing the Project Partners: UKOLN

    Introducing the Project Partners: UKOLN

    The Open Science at Web Scale report published by UKOLN in 2009, discussed the possibility of engaging the public in science, by extending the science team to include interested volunteers or amateur scientists or citizens. Citizen Science is a term used for projects in which volunteers, including the general public and enthusiasts, engage in research-related [...]

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  • Introducing the partners: The British Library

    Introducing the partners: The British Library

    The stakeholders for Patients Participate! are spread across different communities: patients, charities, funders of research, researchers and policy makers (among others). The partnership that has been put together to carry out the project reflects the diverse interests that are represented in this project. Although all the organisations involved are household names in their own community, [...]

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  • Welcome to the Patients Participate! project blog

    Welcome to the Patients Participate! project blog

    Hello and welcome. The patients Participate! project will be using this blog to announce project news and discuss items of relevance to the project. We hope that you will find it interesting to follow and that you will be able to feed back to our project through the comments on the blog. To learn more [...]

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  • Welcome to the Patients Participate! project blog

    Welcome to the Patients Participate! project blog

    Hello and welcome. The patients Participate! project will be using this blog to announce project news and discuss items of relevance to the project. We hope that you will find it interesting to follow and that you will be able to feed back to our project through the comments on the blog. To learn more [...]

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