We want our community to shape the research we conduct and the education of our students. Community advisers help to bring lived experience and important perspectives into the heart of our programmes.
Incorporating community voices into our research and teaching environment will make a difference to how human emotions, thoughts, and behaviours are understood and help to ensure we produce impactful research that makes a difference.
There are a number of ways you can get involved:
Teaching Activities
These activities usually take place during a teaching session to support the learning topic and development of students’ skills. This will typically involve offering an informal talk about your lived experience as an exert by experience sometimes with a question-and-answer time, and/or group discussion.
Research Activities
These activities involve providing feedback to researchers to support them to develop their ideas, carry out their research, or share their findings. This can take place remotely or via small-group meetings.
Sometimes our community advisers are also part of the research team (citizen science projects).
Advisory Board
We are looking for members of the community to join our Advisory Board. This will involve attending meetings to help shape the future directions of our research and teaching.
Please contact the team for more information: psychcommunity@kent.ac.uk
