We are researching how staff impact patient safety on mental health wards. We would like to invite you to join our Lived Experience Advisory Group. Your insights can shape this study and make wards safer for future patients.
The Lived Experience Advisory Group (LEAG) will have 8-10 members and will meet will 8 times throughout the project (ending December 2027). You will use your experience with mental health inpatient services to advise and consult on all aspects of the study.

This project will aim to understand how people with lung cancer in Scotland experience changes in their functionality and what factors influence how they make decisions to seek or forego help for ill health. We will explore how socioeconomic hardship and/or geographical remoteness might affect these decisions. We will work to empower participants themselves to engage in self-monitoring and decision-making that will help them take positive action to look after their health.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to inform a research project focused on improving how neonatal sepsis is diagnosed and treated.

The team are looking for:
• Up to 6 parents to attend an online workshop to inform the research application
• 2 parents to review and give feedback on the research application.
• They are keen to hear from parents/carers who have experience of neonatal care, particularly those whose baby had sepsis

If interested, please email parentsvoicesforresearch@yahoo.com

We are designing a form and some template emails for sharing information about people’s access needs appropriately and with their consent, and we would like to involve people with access and support needs to help us do this at a workshop on Wednesday 8 October on Zoom.

We are looking for people who have experience of asking for access and support needs when getting involved in research, but who have not been involved with the HRA in the last 2 years.

The Centre for Drug Development (CDD) is responsible for taking new drugs (often first in human) into early phase clinical trials.

We’re looking for people who are passionate about clinical trials and making them better for patients. By working with us, you could help develop tomorrow’s cancer treatment and help us make sure everything we do is patient centred.

We are recruiting people who live in Sheffield to take part in research on the commercial determinants of health. These are business activities, such as the making and selling of goods and services, that can positively or negatively affect people’s health. We undertaking workshops with residents to find ways of talking about the commercial determinants of health which are easy for the public to understand. You don’t need to have any prior knowledge of this topic to take part.

We are applying for a small grant to carry out a pilot study assessing whether ashwagandha (a herbal supplement) may positively impact muscle health and quality of life in older people, and whether a larger trial of this would be feasible. We are looking for 1-2 older people (aged >65 years) who have noticed some muscle weakness recently (e.g. difficulty getting up from a chair or opening heavy doors) to give us feedback on the project idea, outcomes and how to maximise engagement.

We want to learn from women who have had experience of injecting low molecular weight heparin after the birth of their baby to prevent blood clots, with planning a clinical trial, which plans to test heparin injections to an oral blood thinning medication after delivery.
A focus group on TEAMS is planned, where we will discuss with you:
• your experiences of injecting heparin,
• the proposed trial planned,
• what improvements can be made,
• and what concerns you would have in taking part.

Your insights will help shape the research design.

The research is about improving fall prevention room services in the UK.

Your role will involve giving opinion on leaflets design, on interview questions, accessibility and taking part in piloting interviews – all of it of part of it (depending on your preference).

No experience in research is needed. I am interested in your opinion on my design to ensure that my research is accessible to public.

I am an Occupational Therapist in Leeds currently completing an NIHR pre-doctoral fellowship. My work is looking the use of personal technology (mobile phones/tablets etc) to help people with mild traumatic brain injuries/concussion.

I am looking for people who have had or cared for someone with a mild traumatic brain injury/concussion to provide their views and experiences.

The information and perspectives gathered will shape future research including a PhD research project.