Research Volunteering

NOTE: All research involving human participants requires approval from an ethics committee. Research involving NHS staff or patients requires approval from an NHS research ethics committee; all other research involving human beings, including University of Manchester staff or students, must have approval from one of the University's ethics committees.

Before any requests for research volunteers are published on StudentNet, they will be checked to ensure the appropriate ethical approval has been obtained.

Healthy participants needed for a disposable cap study
Ethics ref: 23803 The University of Manchester is looking for healthy volunteers to participate in a study where you will be asked to make surgical caps and place them on mannequins. Should you choos...

Investigating How Melanopsin Activation Influences Mood in Daily Life
Ethics 23368 Details: We are investigating how different light levels affect mood in real-world settings. Research suggests that light exposure influences sleep, appetite, and mood regulation, but m...

Do you want to help researchers understand the views of women who attend breast screening?
Ethics ref: 21649 Researchers at the University of Manchester are inviting you to be part of an interview study looking at the views on the offer of dietary weight loss advice and services when...

Volunteers Wanted
MMU study Volunteers Wanted STUDY OVERVIEW Prosthetic rehabilitation is where part of face (i.e. ear, nose) is rehabilitated with a facial prosthesis made from a silicone rubber which is colour matc...

Healthy controls aged 40-65 needed for investigation into motion perception in PPPD (STARDUST project)
IRAS: 327698 The opportunity consists of two afternoon data collection sessions. These sessions will take roughly 2-3 hours for the first session and 3-4 hours for the second session. Participants mu...

An Eye Tracking study on Fluency and Context in Recognition Memory
Ethics ref: 12952 Description We are seeking healthy volunteers to participate in a study investigating recognition memory. During the task, yo...

Female participants needed for menopause and skin ageing research
Ethics ref: 2025-22520-41493 We would like to learn more about how the skin composition and stiffness change with age and menopause. Healthy female, White Caucasian volunteers aged 18-28 or 45-55 wit...

Volunteers needed for an fMRI study investigating neural representations of memory failures
Ethics ref: 22874 We are looking for volunteers to participate our study using functional magnetic resonance imaging(fMRI), a brain imaging technique, to investigate brain activity during true and fa...

Exploring Dual Process Theory in Creativity
Ethics ref: 2025-19227-40817 We’re looking for UK undergraduates to join a 30-minute online study exploring how cognitive abilities affect creative thinking. Conducted by Jia Song, a PhD s...

An EEG study on fluency and context recognition memory
Ethics ref; 12952 We are seeking volunteers to participate in a study investigating the relationship between language and recognition memory. You will view a series of words presented on a com...

18-44-year-old native English speakers needed for hearing study.
Ethics ref: 21468 Participation involves a variety of hearing tests (and earwax removal, where required) during a single two-hour test session at the University. Full details are available at https:/...

Your mental health matters!
Ethical approval from Southern Health NHS foundation and the University of Southampton Calling all students enrolled at the University of Manchester! Please complete the nation student ...

Eurolens Research – Are you a spectacle wearer? Would you like to try contact lenses for the first time in a relaxed, supported environment as part of a clinical study? (ref 734)
Ethics ref: 21387 Study Design This study will investigate the role of a support coach in the success and satisfaction of new contact lens wearers. In addition to providing important clinical da...

a feasibility study in patients with psoriasis
IRAS 335248 We want to find out if MOVE SMART, new lifestyle programme for patients with psoriasis, can help psoriasis and other conditions linked with psoriasis. MOVE SMART has been developed ...

A qualitative investigation into Self Harm and Wall Punching
Ethics ref: 21256 Have you punched a wall or an object before? We are looking to speak to men, in a 60 minute interview, about their thoughts and experiences of wall or object punching. The in...

Exploring the effect of dynamic background on face emotion recognition
Ethics ref 21073 We are seeking volunteers to participate in a study investigating emotional recognition. In the eye-tracking experiment, background clips will be presented first, followed by fa...

How does our skin barrier change with age and what is the impact of ethnicity and UVR exposure?
"HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS OF EURASIAN, SOUTH ASIAN, FAR EAST ASIAN AND AFRICAN BACKGROUND AGED 18-30 OR 65+ are required for a research study to investigate the decline of human skin barrier function with ...

Invitation to participate in a study to improve hearing tests.
Invitation to participate in a study to improve hearing tests. We are conducting a study that aims to compare different hearing tests. This study will take up to 2 hours and will be performed ...

Volunteers needed for an EEG study investigating how the brain and memory change with age
Ethics 21884 We are looking for healthy older adult volunteers (55+ years old) to participate in a study using electroencephalography (EEG), a safe, non-invasive method that measures electrical field...

Volunteers needed for an EEG study investigating neural representations of memory failures
Ethics ref: 20119 We are looking for volunteers to participate in our study using electroencephalography (EEG), a safe, non-invasive method that measures electrical fields produced by brain cells, to...

We are looking for participants to measure effects of light exposure on mood in everyday life.
Ethics ref: 18265 Mental health conditions are on the rise and there is an urgent need to find alternative methods of treatment for conditions such as depression. Devices that measure light exposure ...

We are recruiting adopted people to help us understand how early life experience impacts the brain and behaviour
Ethics ref: 17962 Why are we conducting this research? We would like to learn more about how early life experience influences the brain, behaviour, and the immune system later in life. W...

We are looking for healthy volunteers to take part in our study
NHS REC ref: 23/YH/0121 IRAS ID: 322779 We are conducting a research study to investigate the reasons why brain tumours grow, by comparing samples from samples from patients with different typ...