Helen Roberts

Helen joined Hull York Medical School in 2019 to coordinate patient and public involvement in the Transforming cancer outcomes in Yorkshire research programme. She supports researchers to plan for and undertake meaningful public involvement in doctoral research, developing new grant applications, and running grant funded studies. She has skills in building respectful and inclusive relationships, engaging with diverse people, writing in Plain English, creating accessible information, presenting, organising and facilitating events, budgeting for public involvement, and negotiating the emotional and practical complexity of public involvement.

She manages the Involve Hull public involvement network, which is a large, diverse group of people with personal experience as patients, carers and users of health and care services, with a particular focus on cancer and palliative care. She supports members of the network to get involved in research that matches their experiences and interests, enabling them to have a meaningful voice in shaping our health and care research.