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 swallowing study
IRAS : 256390 REC ref: 20/NI/0029 The University of Manchester is looking for healthy volunteers to participate in a swallowing study. Volunteers will be offered the possibility to participate in a c...

Validation of a Digital version of the Sydney Swallowing Questionnaire
Ethics ref: 19119 You are being invited to take part in an online questionnaire, which aims to assess your swallowing ability. The questionnaire is the Sydney Swallowing Questionnaire (SSQ). T...

contact lens wearers (aged 8-75) required for single-visit clinical study.
Ethics 20672 Study Design: The objective of this study is to demonstrate the ‘real life’ performance of a range of CooperVision soft contact lens brands compared with similar ...

Healthy participants needed for a swallowing study
IRAS 341596 The University of Manchester is looking for healthy volunteers to participate in a swallowing study. Volunteers will be offered the possibility to participate in a clinical study that inv...

Future research studies in diet and constipation
King’s College London Ethical Clearance Reference Number: LRS/DP-23/24-42020 We are looking for volunteers to complete an online survey to understand how people with constipation view the role ...

Robot perception of human trust - Investigating relevant nonverbal behaviours
Ethics ref: 19826 My name is Joseph Bolarinwa, and I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate (Robotics) in the department of computer science at the University of Manchester. I am writing to you t...

Volunteers needed for an fMRI study investigating neural representations of memory failure
Ethics ref; 20119 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 f...

Healthy participants needed for swallowing study
Ethics ref: 20990 Who? We are looking for healthy people aged over 18 years to take part in our study. What? Volunteers will be visiting our lab for 3 times in total. During each visit, partic...

Volunteers needed for research study on eye-tracking and the perception of randomness
Ethics ref: 13123 We are recruiting participants for an experiment investigating how people determine whether a sequence is random. Anyone 18 or over can take part. If you take part: You will...

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 ...

The relationship between insecure attachment and suicidal ideation in young people: a longitudinal study
Ethics ref: 20452 We are inviting young people to take part in an online study investigating the relationship between feelings of insecurity in relationships and thoughts about life not being ...

Final year nursing students (adult field)
Ethics: Edge Hill ETH2324-0162 What is the study about? There is an increasing interest in genetic and genomics in healthcare. This research willexplore undergraduate nursing student’s understa...

New Research Study for healthy children and young people
NHS REC ref: 23/NW/0182 IRAS: 322680 We are a research group looking to understand more about learning and memory in children and young people. This study is for healthy children and young ...

How does life change when your parent or caregiver has a stroke?
ERM Ref: 17961 We are doing research to understand how children are impacted when someone who cares for them has a stroke. This is part of a doctoral thesis. Were you aged 8-18 when your pa...

We are recruiting people who are not adopted 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...

Can you help us learn more about normal walking patterns and knee function?
Ethics ref: 19496 We are looking for participants to take part in a research study to learn more about how the healthy knee moves and how individuals with no knee problems walk. The results wi...

Can you help us improve the quality of student mental health?
Ethics: Uni of Southampton Researchers are looking to explore the reasons behind students' difficulties with mental health across the years of their study to allow for greater understanding of...

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...

Call for volunteers for a study investigating the effect of probiotic kitchen cleaning products on consumers skin hand microbiome
Ethics ref : 15191 The University of Manchester is looking for healthy volunteers from 18 to 40 years old who have no wounds, eczema, or cuts/breaks on the hand, scabs or any visible evidence of skin...

The role and impact of new technologies on re school childrens language development and outcomes
Ethics ref: 13932 My name is Luca, I'm part of the Cognitive Robotics Lab form the Department of Computer science. Together with the Cognitive Development Lab from the University of Salford, w...

Eurolens Research - are you aged 42+ and finding changes to your close/reading vision frustrating?
Study Design This study will compare the short-term clinical performance of two multifocal contact lens brands, which are designed for use by people experiencing presbyopia (or age-related, reduced a...

Healthy female participants needed for a study of bioactive lipids in lupus
NHS ref: 20/NW/0429 Systemic lupus erythematosus – lupus – is a long term illness that mainly affects younger women. Women with lupus have an increased risk of developing cardiovascular d...

The Psychological Measure of Islamic Religiousness (PMIR) Questionnaire
A PhD research is looking at how good the Psychological Measure of Islamic Religiousness (PMIR), is at capturing Islamic beliefs and practices on physical, mental health and psychological well-being....

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...

Recruiting adopted people aged 18-25 for brain imaging and psychology research
Ethics ref: 17962 We are recruiting adopted people to help us understand how early life experience impacts the brain and behaviour Why are we conducting this research? We would like to ...