WE ARE LOOKING FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO:
Work mainly at a desk for 20+ hours per week
Work in hybrid, remote, hot-desk, co-working
Are interested in posture, movement, and musculoskeletal health
WHY TAKE PART?
You will share views that could transform how musculoskeletal risk is identified and prevented in office workers.
You will hear about the latest findings about hybrid working health, and could receive insights on your postural and activity habits at work.

IMAB-Qi is a five-year NIHR-funded study improving how people are supported to take medicines in general practice. We are recruiting one PPI member to join the team, working with researchers to review materials and shape delivery. We are particularly keen to hear from people with links to under-represented communities, including Chinese and wider Asian backgrounds, where cultural perspectives may influence how medicines are understood and used in practice. Flexible involvement.

After surgery for bowel cancer, patients are offered certain chemotherapy types and regimens to reduce the risk of the cancer coming back. However, people may get shorter or longer treatment than recommended, or have their treatment changed or stopped. The study will examine how long chemotherapy is given, how treatment is modified in practice, and whether these patterns vary between patient groups or NHS providers, and whether differences affect survival or toxicity outcomes.

We are looking to interview people with COPD to gain insight into what it feels like to live with breathlessness. The interview can be done online or in-person. It will focus on your experience and feeling around breathlessness and your experience of living with COPD. This will help improve our knowledge and help shape future treatments for COPD.

We have 3-4 meetings per year, lasting 1-2 hours each. These meetings can be completed in-person or virtually, to fit in around your existing commitments/schedule. The purpose of the meetings is to:

• Discuss our wider research strategy, upcoming opportunities, individual studies based on current patient interests/priorities
• Review proposed individual study methodology and wider dissemination strategy
• Provide feedback/letter of support for upcoming grant applications and press releases

We are inviting Nottingham residents to take part in Code-RED, a project exploring how digital technologies shape everyday life. Join a series of interactive workshops between May and June to share your experiences, discuss digital research with university researchers, and help shape future research priorities. No technical background is needed. Participants will be compensated and travel costs supported.

Team VOICE, funded through an NIHR Team Science Award, are looking for a diverse group of 6-8 patients and members of the public to join our Project Advisory Panel and provide valuable insights and guidance into our project development.
We are looking at risk prediction tools in healthcare and how these can be less accurate for people from disadvantaged or minority groups. Your insights can help us make these tools fairer for everyone.

We are a research team interested in developing new ways to involve patients in defining which treatments work best in trials.

We invite you to participate in our study. It will involve attending up to 3 meetings. Each meeting will last around 2 hours and will occur over the months May – August.

Please express your interest to pinpoint@abdn.ac.uk before 30th of April 2026.

We are looking for a member of the public with lived experience to review a proposal looking at the best way to perform Whipple procedures. The review is completed through our online system and will involve reading a paper focusing on the Plain English summary and PPI sections. It would be available to review from 14 May and the review would ideally be completed within 2 weeks. If you are interested please send details of your experience.

We are currently designing a study titled “User Experiences of Using a Self-Tracking Health Mobile App.” The study includes an online survey, try a mobile app, a follow-up survey, and an interview. As a reviewer, you will examine the full process over one week and provide feedback on participant experience, including areas where additional support may be needed, as well as suggestions to improve the clarity of study materials.