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Opportunities
30 opportunities found
Bowel cancer screening in the UK
Location: [Not applicable]
Aged between 50-74? Keen to help shape research on improving the uptake of bowel cancer screening?
Participants Wanted: Language Use and Social Confidence in Autistic and Non-Adults
Location: UK wide
Survey exploring language use and social experiences
JOIN US IN POSTURE, MOVEMENT & OFFICE HEALTH RESEARCH
Location: All of England
Desk-based workers wanted to help shape and join a new study on musculoskeletal health
Can you help improve how medicines are used in everyday care? Join the Patient and Public Involvement team for IMAB-Qi
Location: All of England
Seeking PPI member to reflect cultural perspectives on medicines use, incl. Chinese/Asian background
Effectiveness of and variation in chemotherapy for bowel cancer in England
Location: UK wide
A study on chemotherapy use after bowel cancer surgery and how it affects outcomes
Investigating the Experiences and Perceptions of Breathlessness in COPD Patients
Location: UK wide
Do you have COPD and experience breathlessness? We would love to hear from you.
Code-RED (Co-Designing Responsible Digital Futures with Nottingham Citizens)
Location: East Midlands
Have your say on digital technologies Research in Nottingham through local workshops
What treatment differences matter most to patients?
Location: UK wide
We are seeking Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) partners to help us with a study
Whipple Procedure: Robotic versus Open trial
Location: UK wide
HTA Programme is seeking someone with lived experience to review the above application.
Help my research work better for Parkinson’s!
Location: UK wide
This opportunity will involve reviewing and offering feedback on research design.
Digital tool to improve staff education and patient outcome following major emergency abdominal surgery
Location: UK wide
Can reflection on patient journeys support learning and improvement?
The Health Work Toolbox
Location: All of England
Help us create an online tool to keep people with health challenges working
Community Appointment Days (CADs) for People with a Musculoskeletal (MSK) Condition
Location: UK wide
Expression of interest to join a Patient Advisory Group for a trial on Community Appointment Days.
Help researchers make the air in hospitals safer
Location: UK wide
Have you caught an airborne infection while in hospital? Would you like to contribute to research?
CONNECT: Studying joined up hospital care for people with learning disabilities.
Location: UK wide
Studying joined up hospital care for people with learning disabilities.
Help shape research to improve children’s anaesthetic experiences
Location: UK wide
Help shape research looking at how hospital anaesthetic rooms can better support children.
Help shape a new app for managing chronic fatigue
Location: UK wide
Share your experience to help design a digital tool for managing chronic fatigue.
Trial Steering Committee – Yorquit Study
Location: Yorks & Humber
Volunteer with lived experience of smoking in Yorkshire to help shape health research.
Lifestyle medicine interventions for people with heart failure
Location: UK wide
Share your views to help improve quality of life for people with heart failure.
Young people’s experiences of colds, flus, coughs and sore throats
Location: All of England
Share your experiences of managing coughs, colds, and when to seek help (ages 18–24).
Personality disorders and The Mental Health Act project steering group
Location: UK wide
We are hoping to set up a project steering group to guide a PhD project over the next 3 years
PPIE Group for Paediatric Pleural Empyema Research
Location: All of England
Parents, carers and young people shaping priorities and outcomes in paediatric pleural empyema.
PPI opportunity for a research study on end of cancer treatment for children
Location: UK wide
Inviting young people (age 8-18) to support a study about information at the end of cancer treatment
PPI opportunity for research study on ADHD
Location: UK wide
We are inviting PPI to support a new NIHR research on a new method to select ADHD medication.
Join our User Testing Group for an AI Chatbot Tool
Location: All of England
We are looking for parents and carers to help test an online chatbot-style tool
Have your say on the future of cervical screening in Scotland by joining the AYEScreen Patient and Public Involvement & Engagement (PPIE) team
Location: Scotland
Share your views on HPV self-sampling by joining the AYEScreen PPIE team
Improving the quality of care for people with gout
Location: All of England, Wales
Exploring barriers to good care for people living with gout in the UK
PiLot Study To Assess The AdhereNcE In School Age Children With Asthma (PLANES)
Location: UK wide
Join our PPI group to shape a pilot study on reducing school absences in children with asthma
Inner speech after stroke and its role in memory and attention
Location: East of England, East Midlands, London
We are looking for stroke survivors with ongoing aphasia or who have had aphasia in the past
