Participatory Research projects
Find out about Participatory Research projects that have been awarded in previous rounds.
2024 projects
| Project Title | Awardees | Description |
|---|---|---|
| From Voices to Data: Developing Refugee Research Skills with University-Community Partnerships |
Heather Bullen; Dr Caroline Hands
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This works with a grassroots refugee organisation: Asylum Link Merseyside (ALM). The project will centre on equipping 6 volunteers/service users to become community researchers, alongside 4 ALM staff. They will work with experienced University researchers to develop research/evaluation skills and tools to evaluate three weekly wellbeing groups. |
| Adapting the Dementia Inequalities Game to children and testing it in primary school education |
Dr Clarissa Giebel; Dr Megan Readman; Dr James Watson; Dr Megan Polden; Prof Mark Gabbay; Emma Williams; Jacqui Cannon; Dr Nashwa Ismail
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The aim of this project is to adapt the Dementia Inequalities Game for children (aged 7-11), and to produce the game for testing with children and people with lived experiences of dementia. |
| Patient Evaluation and development of the “My Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS) Passport” Digital App. |
Dan Carr; Anita Hanson
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We have already created the “My SJS Passport”. This is a paper booklet to record critical information on their condition. We will now be beta-testing an app version. |
| Post-traumatic embitterment disorder in authorised firearms officers: a participatory-focused grant application. |
Dr Chloe Brennan
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I will establish an advisory group of UK Authorised Firearms Officers (AFOs) to guide the development of a grant application aimed at understanding the neural underpinnings of post-traumatic embitterment disorder (PTED) in AFOs. |
| Writing retreat: the REACHE project (Research Engagement And Collaborative Health Enquiry) |
Helen Marshall; Carolyn Lees
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We will co-write a journal article which details the REACHE project, previously funded by this grant in 2023, and disseminate and share this project in a peer reviewed journal. |
| CLEAR – Clear Language and Engaging Resources |
Peter Waitt
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The Enhancing Research skills Among uNiversity stuDents (ERAND) project aims to enable selected students from Gulu University and Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) in Uganda to start building the career path in research, and establish a students’ research peer network. |
| Exploring the power dynamics between women and healthcare professionals involved in the co-production of research in reproductive health and childbirth |
Dr Abi Merriel; Dr Carol Kingdon
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Our aim is to explore the power dynamics, benefits, barriers and facilitators of optimal PPIE in NIHR funded reproductive health and childbirth (RH&C) research. |
| Sex worker oral health: understanding research priorities and the acceptability of oral health outreach with students |
Janine Yazdi-Doughty; Gemma Ahearne
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The primary aim of the project is to understand the oral health priorities of sex workers in the North West of England and their engagement with dental care. The secondary aim is to create a national framework / advisory document that outlines considerations for sex workers oral health and makes recommendations for oral health improvement activity including student outreach opportunities. |
| Why is it important to listen to women and families when waters break early in pregnancy? A listening event and formation of a new PPIE Group |
Laura Goodfellow; Dr Angharad Care
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We would like to hear the lived experience of women and families who have faced early Preterm prelabour rupture of membrane (PPROM) and how they interpret the new observational study data. Additionally, we want to understand what the most important follow up questions are to the women and families. |
| CASPAR Follow up Focus Group |
Elizabeth Medford; Dr Angharad Care
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The CASPAR study explores the use of a new medical device that assesses whether cervical stiffness assessments can help predict the outcome of Induction of Labour (IOL). With this HLS public engagement grant we would like to organise two follow up focus group in Spring 2025. |
2023 projects
View the report from our 2023 projects.