Join Designability’s team as a Lived Experience Advisor

by Fraser Henderson | Oct 2, 2025 | Involvement

Designability are looking for 6 to 8 people with lived experience of disability. Whether you’re a disabled person, an unpaid carer, or a parent or carer of a disabled child or adult, Designability would like to work with you to on designing and running a...

NIHR Patient Engagement in Clinical Development (PECD) Service –Insight Session – Hives (also known as Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria)

by Fraser Henderson | Sep 12, 2025 | Involvement

The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) is pleased to share an opportunity to be involved in the co-design of a commercial research study (that is a study funded by a pharmaceutical, biotechnology or medical device company) into Hives (also known as...

Improving patient experiences of decision-making and consent in radiotherapy treatment for gynae cancer

by Fraser Henderson | Sep 5, 2025 | Involvement

GRACE (Gynae Radiotherapy Consent Enhancement) is a research collaboration between Lancaster and Bangor Universities, funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). They are looking at ways of improving patient experiences of decision-making and...

Call for lived experience (LE) experts to participate in a workshop on LE involvement/collaboration in Mental Health Research  

by Fraser Henderson | Sep 5, 2025 | Involvement

This workshop is part of a bigger research project on Lived Experience Collaborations in Mental Health Research. The project is funded by the Wellcome Trust and carried out by a partnership of researchers from the Centre for Evidence and Implementation (CEI), lived...

Research Study Participation- Eating Disorders: The Role of Pride and Shame in Help-Seeking and Motivation to Change

by Fraser Henderson | Sep 5, 2025 | Involvement

Courtney is a trainee clinical psychologist studying at the University of Liverpool and work in the NHS, who is conducting a study looking at the role of shame and pride in help-seeking and motivation to change in eating disorders/eating disorder symptoms. Courtney is...

Experiences of making sense of unusual beliefs and/or perceptual experiences within secondary mental healthcare services

by Fraser Henderson | Aug 22, 2025 | Involvement

Matilda Fuller is currently studying a MSc Psychology conversion at the University of East London (UEL). She is working on her dissertation research project where she would like to talk to people about their experiences of sense-making of unusual beliefs/ experiences...