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Community partnership in critical-care research
- Riham LotfiCommunity Partner at Imperial College London
Key points
- Community partners in research can talk about the negatives as well as the positives of their experience.
- Researchers listen to community partners and give them flexibility.
- Community partners work almost like a co-production team and have been granted the role of core researchers.
Riham Lotfi, Community Partner at Imperial College London, shares her experience of patient and public involvement in critical-care research. She discusses the importance of flexibility, mutual learning and making space for both positive and difficult experiences. The interview explores co-production and the value of recognising community participants as partners in the research process. Riham reflects on how lived experience can strengthen research and help ensure that questions and projects remain connected to the people they aim to serve. She highlights the benefits of working together and building research with communities.
This interview took place at the PCCS Annual Scientific Meeting 2026 in London.
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Good morning. My name is Riham Lotfi, and I have been engaged with patient and public involvement and engagement for almost five to six years now. We're working alongside researchers, and it gives us pride and it gives us an opportunity to talk about the negatives as well as the positives that we can share. The good side is that they listen to us. They give us flexibility. We are almost like a co-production team together. We have been granted to be core researchers as well. So it is from the community and to the community, and it's not done only by themselves. So we are together in this research.
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Riham Lotfi. “Community partnership in critical-care research.” The Paediatric Video Journal, 7 November 2026. https://paediatricvj.com/videos/community-partnership-in-critical-care-research-lotfi/
This interview is educational content intended for healthcare professionals and is not medical advice. Views expressed are those of the speaker. © The Paediatric Video Journal. All rights reserved.