Introducing undergraduate students to cancer Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) (2025)

Eight teams of students from Bioscience and Business & Marketing modules led by Professors James Brown and John Fahy delivered clear, actionable marketing strategies, branding, and social media posts to strengthen the PPI group’s communication with key audiences and stakeholders in the regional and local communities. The strategies have already supported the recruitment of new PPI panel members, with the panel currently at seventeen members.

The mission is to engage and inform students, and our wider community, about Public Patient Involvement (PPI). Students from health and business work collaboratively to apply their complementary skills in a real-world setting to benefit the community we live in. Working to aid our community partners (as clients), benefits the clients and students gain practical experience and learning from direct engagement with our community partners, while delivering a professional service to support the clients mission

Public and Patient Involvement (PPI) group, University Hospital Limerick, 

final year undergraduate students at UL - 4th year Bioscience and 4th year Business Studies,   

PPI Cancer Research Group

The PPI partners gave positive feedback “We were so impressed with the very professional quality of the students work”

The students involved also gave positive feedback on the process “was a real highlight of our final year applying what we’ve learned in a meaningful, real-world setting with an amazing team”