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Opportunities
42 opportunities found
PPI opportunity focused on Schizophrenia or Schizoaffective disorder
Location: All of England
Need for PPI collaborators with lived experience of Schizophrenia or Schizoaffective disorder
Paid opportunity as a Lived Experience Advisor on my PhD about Childhood Trauma & Psychosis
Location: UK wide
I need at least two people who have had psychosis or childhood trauma to give advice on my PhD.
Involvement in research with people who have prolapse and dementia
Location: UK wide
Reviewing and managing prolapse and dementia research
Psychosis and Poetry
Location: UK wide
Developing a research project on the therapeutic potential of poetry for people experience psychosis
Seeking people diagnosed with a terminal illness while on a UK work visa (or caring for family in this position)
Location: UK wide
Two PPIE members required for a Marie Curie-funded project on UK work visas and terminal illness
Diagnostic accuracy and acceptability of optical sensors to help diagnose peripheral artery disease
Location: UK wide, South East
To get views on a new test we are developing to improve diagnosis of peripheral artery disease
Are you 18 to 29, not White British and looking after someone with a serious illness or complex health condition? Take part in an exciting new research project.
Location: UK wide
Ethnically diverse young adults experience's of looking after someone seriously unwell or disabled.
Glucocorticoids in adults with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (GuARDS) Trial Steering Committee
Location: UK wide
Trial Steering Committee Member needed with Critical Care Experience (as patient or carer)
NCTU Advisory Committee Member
Location: East Midlands
Nottingham Clinical Trials Unit is looking for 2 - 3 people to join our Advisory Committee.
Join the MSk Lab’s Patient and Public Involvement Group to share your views to help inform and influence new and innovative research.
Location: London
Opportunity to Join the MSk Lab at Imperial College.
Are you interested in sharing your views on the use of algorithms in medical research and how to make their use more acceptable?
Location: London
Opportunity to join a public advisory group and discuss algorithms in healthcare research
Spinal Cord Injury: how to ensure best care for those with additional speech and swallowing difficulties
Location: All of England
Can you help make this research relevant and important for funders?
Join the Rapid Eczema Trials Citizen Scientist Community
Location: UK wide
Can you help design and support research studies that answer questions about living with eczema?
Seeking help from people with lived experiences of venous leg ulcers
Location: UK wide
We want to find out about venous leg ulcer care and the use of compression therapy in hospitals
Carers (unpaid / informal / family)- can you tell me about your experience?
Location: UK wide
Join a short online discussion to tell me about your experience caring
Supporting women to move more after cancer – a Patient & Public Involvement opportunity
Location: UK wide, Yorks & Humber
Seeking women from culturally diverse backgrounds to shape a PhD study and improve survivorship care
Have you had a chest drain?
Location: East Midlands
We want to understand more about your experience of having a chest drain fitted as part of your care
Preventing diabetes in people living with kidney disease and heart failure
Location: All of England
Can SGLT2 inhibitors prevent the development of type 2 diabetes?
Priority-setting partnership (PSP) in alcohol related liver disease and alcohol use disorder
Location: East Midlands, West Midlands
We are inviting 20-30 people with lived experience of alcohol use and/or liver disease
Investigating the long-term psychosocial impact of risk-reducing mastectomies in women at moderate risk of breast cancer.
Location: UK wide
Be part of the research team, bringing a viewpoint from their experience and advise on the study.
CLARITY: SurgiCaL educAtion to Reduce negatIve appendicecTomY and poor patient outcomes.
Location: UK wide
The study seeks to improve surgeons diagnostic skills to reduce unnecessary surgery for appendicitis
Courage of Compassion ‘into’ practice
Location: All of England
Development, implementation, and evaluation of a system-level framework to improve nurses wellbeing
Improving Representation in Maternity Research: The REPRESENT Study
Location: London, Yorks & Humber
We are looking for women to join us as peer researchers to be involved throughout this project.
Refugees and participation in free mass activity events (parkrun, runtalkrun)
Location: UK wide
We are seeking refugees from Ukraine, Syria and Aghanistan to help develop our research proposal
Co-design of a financial incentive intervention to increase pulmonary rehabilitation referral, uptake and completion in people with chronic lung conditions
Location: UK wide
Share your opinions on using financial incentives to encourage participation in pulmonary rehab.
Professor Simon Bach – Patient perspectives on the use of surgical robots in the NHS
Location: UK wide, West Midlands
Patient perspectives on the use of surgical robots in the NHS
DEveloping a Complex Intervention for DEteriorating patients: a feasibility study for a theory-based behaviour change intervention (DECIDE feasibility study).
Location: London
DECIDE feasibility study.
Independent Steering Committee member NIHR research Project
Location: UK wide
Collaboration as an independent steering committee member for a PPI
Providing peer support for family members and friends of patients treated under the Mental Health Act (MHA): Paid Opportunity
Location: London, South West, West Midlands
We’d like relatives or friends (carers) of people treated under the MHA to support other carers.
Have you ever taken medicines to treat depression, OCD, anxiety or PTSD? Join a research advisory group
Location: UK wide
Help design a research study that aims to develop support for people stopping their medicines
REARSS Study (REsearch into AnoRectal Surgery Sterility)
Location: UK wide
We're interested to explore how we can make perianal surgery more environmentally friendly
Supporting healthy lifestyles among young adults in the workplace
Location: UK wide
Exploring interventions for employers to better support young adults, in diet, exercise and sleep.
Identifying the best ways to deliver health care for people from ethnic minority groups living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other health conditions.
Location: All of England
How can we better support carers of people living with long-term lung condition (COPD)?
Lived experiences of psychosis and physical health conditions
Location: UK wide, London
We are looking for people with psychosis and physical health problems to help design a questionnaire
Huntington’s disease: scoping activities for patients and informal carers to inform research study
Location: UK wide
Scoping activity e.g., workshop, 1 to 1 discussion to prioritise key issues and questions
Parkinson’s disease: scoping activities for patients and informal carers to inform research study
Location: UK wide
Scoping activity e.g., workshop, 1 to 1 discussion to prioritise key issues and questions
ICANEQUAL: a UK-wide multistakeholder partnership to improve liver cancer treatment and care
Location: UK wide
We are looking for patients diagnosed with liver cancer, careers, health professionals & researchers
Experiences of Cancer and Cancer Care amongst Young People from Ethnically Minoritised backgrounds
Location: UK wide
🚨Share your experience to help us improve cancer care & earn £10 voucher🚨
Supporting Mum and Baby relationships during perinatal mental illness
Location: UK wide
Help mums and babies to connect and communicate
C-POP Study Patient Advisory Group Membership
Location: All of England, Scotland, Wales
Recruiting for a diverse group with experience of apical prolapse to work with the C-POP Study team.
Co-developing a smart (AI based) smoking cessation app to support smoking cessation among hard-to-access groups.
Location: North West
Develop a smart smoking cessation app, using AI algorithms to provide just-in-time intervention
Help needed to support us with methodology research
Location: All of England
Support needed for methods research
