EPSRC Funding Opportunity: Transforming prediction and early diagnosis in the community

Are we expected to play with outside of the rules? Or are we given the rules in the deferred language that we don't understand? Are we invited to play halfway through the game or or towards the end of the game? Are we only allowed to play certain parts of the game? Are we involved right from the start? Are public contributors, the only people not getting paid for playing. [...] The context in which it operates and the groups that that you want to that you want to work with will look very different, but the values and principles underlying it will be will be the same. [...] And we need to ask who starts the cycle? Who gets to ask the questions? Who decides what is important about the proposals that you want to put to put forward? And are they actually coming from the needs that people have expressed, or what you want to do? And I think you know this is the bananarama rule of patient public involvement in coproduction, because actually, it ain't just what you do. [...] So it's for you to consider who are the most appropriate people that you should be engaging and partnering with in your application and making the case to kind of peer review, and the the panel members. [...] People make the choices that are available to them and it's got to be seen in the wider context of the politics of austerity.