I have been a patient champion and a carer ambassador for over 10 years. I am a fervent advocate of ethnicity, diversity and inclusion of the underrepresented and often marginalised groups of our society. I am passionate about participating and collaborating in committees and boards to help tackle and remove barriers to a diverse engagement in research. I enjoy working with researchers as a lay member or as a co-applicant to ensure their research initiatives promise to deliver what matters to people, help reduce health inequalities, and that patients’ and carers’ perspective reverberates throughout the research process.