Dawn Richards, PhD
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Dawn Richards, PhD
@dawnrichards.bsky.social
Living life with #Arthritis along for the ride. Posting & passionate about #Research, arthritis, #PatientEngagement, #PPI. Opinions my own.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
We'll be talking about the 4 power themes in this paper researchinvolvement.biomedcentral.com/articles/10...., and sharing some anonymous real examples - including how more equitably share power on research teams that include patient/public members. #PPIE #PPI #PatientEngagement #CoProduction 2/2
The ultimate power play in research - partnering with patients, partnering with power - Research Involvement and Engagement
Background Patient and public involvement (PPI), also called patient engagement, patient partnership, or consumer involvement, holds potential to change approaches and outcomes in research and healthc...
researchinvolvement.biomedcentral.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Thank you for this- it’s beautiful.
November 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
As a woman in science, I can identify with so much of this at different points in my career. Thank you for sharing.
November 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Beautiful!
November 14, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Congratulations! 🎉
November 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Thank you- haven’t read this before. So appreciate reading about the women in science who came before me.
November 8, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Reposted by Dawn Richards, PhD
Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant but neglected, a heroine t...
www.thelancet.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM