Since its launch in Autumn 2020, Multiverse Lab has reached over 3000 people across the North East and Cumbria to ask “What is the health or social care breakthrough you hope to see in your lifetime?” This innovative public engagement project aims to make communities’ voices heard.
Multiverse Lab engaged with people through zoom socials, social media and a touring pop-up installation. It visited high streets, community centres and festivals to reach diverse communities across the region, capturing 500 voices through an interactive website. Alongside the most talked about issues, poverty and long-term conditions were raised in relation to many of the different topics.
The top ten most talked about issues were:
The team behind Multiverse Lab are now working to share the results with partners across the region, who will use the knowledge that has been captured in various ways, including using it to shape future health and social care research priorities.
The Multiverse project was commissioned by a collaboration of partners including:
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) - involving:
To find out more download the Multiverse Lab summary report here