The Insights Group

About the Insights Group

Our public engagement programme aspires to test new ways of engaging and involving the public with fundamental biology, including through working with a public panel. This is modelled on a patient and public involvement (PPI) approach, more commonly used in clinical settings.

The Insights Group advises on how HDBI research is conducted and communicated.

Publications and evaluation

• Exploring the challenges and opportunities of public engagement with fundamental biology (Development, September 2022)

  In this brief Perspective, we provide an overview of our public engagement approach, exploring its challenges and opportunities, and outline our longer-term plans. We hope that by sharing our experiences we will encourage and enable others to organise similarly experimental public engagement, even if their research is very fundamental or potentially controversial.

• Interim External Evaluation (Sarah Jenkins, Jenesys Associates Ltd, June 2023)

  This report is based on interviews with five HDBI consortium members and three Insights Group members. It was written to inform the consortium’s plans following a trial period for the Group.

For more information about the Insights Group, please contact us: hdbi-pe@bio.cam.ac.uk