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Opportunities
24 opportunities found
Share your thoughts about a mental health toolkit for people diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
Location: UK wide
I want to create an accessible, personal, and culturally relevant mental health kit.
Help shape a children’s health study
Location: UK wide
Parents & 18–30s with no PICU experience: 1-hour online session, w/c 26 Oct. £27.50 paid.
Managing Microbiomes: Understanding the use of at-home test kits for vaginal infections
Location: UK wide
Be part of a new patient representative group for a study looking at vaginal symptoms
Hearing loss, wellbeing and music
Location: UK wide
We are recruiting people with hearing loss to participate in a focus group interview.
Opportunity for military connected families to shape how we include people in research
Location: East of England
We are researchers in the NHS want to connect with the military community.
Share your experiences of either Coeliac Disease / Ankylosing Spondylitis/ Narcolepsy/ Hypersensitivity to abacavir drug used for HIV treatment
Location: North West
Discuss your experience with master’s level students who are studying to be NHS blood scientists
Share your experiences of a Kidney Transplant or Chronic Kidney Disease
Location: North West
Discuss your experience with master’s level students who are studying to be NHS blood scientists
Share your experiences of treatment for a lipid disorder for example Familial Hypercholesterolaemia.
Location: North West
Discuss your experience with master’s level students who are studying to be NHS blood scientists
Shaping Sepsis Research Together
Location: North West
A workshop for people with experience of sepsis or serious infections
Evaluation of a novel mechanical ventilator to enhance patient safety and pandemic preparedness
Location: UK wide
The aim of this research is to test this new ventilator on patients for the first time.
Help us define what “accessible” greenspace really means – online focus group for people with mobility issues
Location: All of England
Share your experience of getting to, and around, parks and green spaces near you
Improving the Statistics Behind Health Research: Public Partners Wanted
Location: UK wide
Your input is needed for a funding application and to guide the project's future direction
Have you fractured your thigh bone near a hip or knee replacement?
Location: UK wide
Participants wanted to help us improve care for future patients
Patient & Public Involvement Activity – Social and Community Integration after Hip Fractures
Location: East Midlands, London
We want to work with people who have had a hip fracture or their family/friends/carers
Advisory group for a urology community ultrasound study
Location: All of England
Help shape an NIHR-funded study on guided ultrasound in community urology clinics.
Help improve patient information about chest infections and antibiotics
Location: Wales
Have you had a chest infection or COPD flare-up in the last 12 months? Join a workshop.
Survey Exploring Views of Public Involvement and Engagement in Research Using Animals
Location: UK wide
A survey seeking views on how members of the public might shape research that uses animals
New Alzheimers Treatment — Your View Matters
Location: UK wide
Opinion on a new minimally invasive surgical treatment for Alzheimers
What influences general practitioners’ perceptions of their duty of care to the partners of people with cancer?
Location: UK wide
PhD thesis exploring support for the partners of people with cancer.
Seeking Advice from Patient Experts to Help Shape Myopic Research
Location: All of England
Looking for children with myopia, and their parents, to help shape health economics research.
The Roles of Fears of Compassion and Loneliness in Depression in Older Adults with Experiences of Childhood Trauma – A Mediation Study.
Location: UK wide
Complete a short, anonymous online survey about mental health in adults aged 60+
Help shape research about feeding infants on Nasal High Flow breathing support
Location: UK wide
PPIE group: feeding babies receiving Nasal High Flow breathing support
Neurodiversity and Empathy in Healthcare
Location: UK wide
We are seeking neurodivergent working professionals to help develop a research funding application.
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
