Clare Jinks

Keele University

Professor Clare Jinks has 20 years of experience of working with people and communities in applied health research. She first asked two people with lived experience of knee pain to join a project management group and set up a knee pain forum (2005-7) to develop and deliver knee pain prevention research. She was a founding member of Keele University School of Medicine People and Communities group and co-wrote the departmental public involvement policy (2006-8). She was departmental lead for public involvement (2008-12). The public involvement group now has over 150 members. Whilst a member of UK Chartered Society for Physiotherapy Charitable Trust Scientific Panel (2009 - 2013) she developed involvement guidance for applicants. At the same time, she was regional involvement lead for the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) West Midlands Research Design service, holding two regional symposiums about public involvement in research, establishing a public involvement bursary scheme and making 10 awards (2008-12). Her early work featured in the NIHR’s Case Studies in Primary Care Research (2014) as two of nine national examples of research shaped by lived experience. She continues to embed meaningful involvement in research, most recently co-leading the International Change Osteoarthritis Narrative Initiative (COAN), bringing together researchers, people with lived experience and health care professionals to develop priorities for OA research. She has published about public involvement methods and impact as well as showcasing public involvement in design and delivery of OA research (with people with lived experience as co-applicants or co-presenters at conferences).