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.

Interview study regarding listening at work recruiting people aged 50 years or older, working at least part-time in a job that relies heavily on in-person communication, and use hearing aid(s)
Ethics Reference: 2025-22445-41854   You are invited to participate in an online interview about how the mental effort of listening at work affects you. The interview will last up to 1 hour and ...

Eurolens Research – do you know a child (aged 8-15 years) that wears contact lenses (ref 760)?
NHS REC ref: IRAS 357884   Introduction: The University’s contact lens research unit, Eurolens Research, is looking for children to take part in a clinical study. Details of the study are ...

We are recruiting people who are not adopted and have been diagnosed with ADHD to help us understand how early life experience impacts the brain and behavior
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...

Have you had a knee replacement and tracked your physical activity?
NHS REC: 24/NE/0090  About the research  In the United Kingdom, approximately 100,000 knee replacement surgeries are performed each year to relieve pain and improve mobility. While we know a l...

Eurolens Research – do you know a child (aged 8-12) who is short-sighted? (ref 757)
Ethics ref: 23893   Introduction: The University’s contact lens research unit, Eurolens Research, is looking for children to take part in a clinical study. Details of the study a...

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:/...

We are recruiting adolescents (aged 13 - 17) who are not adopted and have never lived in local authority care or experienced significant trauma to help us understand how early life experience impacts the brain and behaviour.
Ethics 19192 Details: 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 in adolescence.  We ...

How the eyes shape our world
IRAS ref: 278995 PARTICIPANTS REQUIRED for a genetic and imaging study investigating the fovea,         the unique area at the back of our eyes that give us sh...

Paid participants wanted for Psychology research study.
Ethics ref: 21355 Project to understand how we make social and perceptual decisions.   We are inviting you to take part in a study examining to assess how we make social decisions about other pe...

Genes and Health study
IRAS ref 146051 South Asian people have some of the highest rates of heart disease, diabetes, and poor health in the UK. Living with a long-term illness has a major impact on a person’s quality...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...