Empowering Early Career Researchers: Insights and Reflections from the 2024 CREATE Workshop and EHPS Conference

In 2024 the CREATE workshop and EHPS conference brought the five of us to sunny Cascais in Portugal. Receiving CREATE and Conference grants gave us, as early-career researchers, the opportunity to participate in the CREATE pre-conference workshop “Empowering Collaboration: Patient and Public Involvement in Health Research”, led by Dr. Anna Levke Brütt and Dr. Elspeth Mathie. Their powerful insights sparked new ideas on integrating patient voices into research and was just the start of the informative and motivating conference programme. Throughout the conference we made new friends, connected with future collaborators, and gained fresh perspectives to fuel our work. It was an unforgettable experience that boosted our careers and deepened our passion for health psychology.