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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 with normal BMI needed for appetite study
ERM ref: 2022-15284-25905   Details  You are between 18-40 years old  You have a normal body mass index between 18.5 and 24.9 kg/m2  You are not taking any medication for chronic...

Engaging with people with anxiety and/or depression with experience in NHS Talking Therapies services
PPI Advisory group The CO-IMPROVE research study is a three-phase NIHR funded project that aims to maintain treatment gains and reduce relapse for patients with anxiety and depression following ...

Would you like to help further our understanding of how we experience different senses?
We are looking for volunteers to take part in a study looking at how we experience different senses (for example, touch and hearing) to help further our understanding of pain conditions like fibromya...

A Study Examining Personal Differences in Sentence Comprehension
In this study, you will complete two language comprehension tasks while eye-tracking recordings are taken. In the first task, you will be required to listen to short sentences and then indicate as qu...

whether online resources make young people more likely to seek support for eating problems.
IRAS ref: 22/LO/0655   What are we doing? We are trying to find out whether online resources make young people more likely to seek support for eating problems.   Who can take part? Young pe...

Are you a South Asian person caring for someone with dementia?
Ethics ref: 15305 We need to speak to South Asian people who care for an Urdu speaker who was diagnosed with dementia at a North West service in the last 5 years. We need to hear about your experienc...

Seeking participants to take part in health supplement research.
Ethics ref: 2023-15359-27115 Hi, my name is Daniil Luzyanin, I’m a Master’s student at the University of Manchester. A team of researchers and I are investigating if Hericium erinaceus mu...

Can you help us improve the quality of student mental health?
Ethics ref: NHS 002074   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 diff...

Investigating online CBT: EEG and emotion processing
Ethics reference 15428   If you are a student at the University of Manchester, you can take part in an EEG study into the brain mechanisms of online CBT.  Study sessions take approximately ...

Are you interested in taking part in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)experiment of memory and emotion?
Ethics:2022-14669-23964 We are interested in exploring which brain regions are involved in specific aspects of memory and emotion function. This study will use functional magnetic resonance imaging (...

Parenting and well-being
Ethics ref: 2023-15899-27139   Are you a parent or guardian of a child aged 2- 18? Can you spare half an hour to answer some questionnaires online?    We want to find out how well pare...

Investigating the feasibility of behaviour change interventions to improve oral health in young adults through digital health technologies
ERM ref: 2022-13950-26408 In this online research study, we are investigating the oral health behaviours of young adults in relation to risk behaviours (smoking, alcohol, diet) that they are exposed ...

Exploring beliefs and attitudes about eating disorders in women in mid-life
Ethics ref: 2023-15781-26628   Description: Participants needed for a research study to help us understand the attitudes and beliefs women in midlife have towards eating disorders.   The st...

Do you experience ringing, hissing or buzzing in your ears? If so we'd like you to take part in our new tinnitus study.
Ethics ref: 2023-15415-27028   We are a group of hearing scientists from The University of Manchester who are looking for people aged 40 and older who experience tinnitus (ringing/hissing/buzzin...

Are children’s actions influenced by others?
Ethics ref: 2021-11045-17831   Are children’s actions influenced by others?   We are looking for families with children aged 5-6 years, to take part in an online research project to h...

Eurolens research - volunteers (aged 40-59) required for multifocal contact lens study
ERM ref: 2022-15153-26116 Are you aged 40-59? Would you be interested in trying multifocal contact lenses? If yes, we need your help. Eurolens Research (The University of Manchester) needs volunteers...

Study on exclusion from services during a mental health crisis
Ethics ref: 2022-14237-25047 In the UK everyone should be able to get the care they need for a mental health crisis.  But this is not always the case. Recent research shows that about a third of...

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...

Do you work in a North West memory service? Help us improve memory service access for British South Asians
Ethics ref: 15299   We need to speak to staff of North West memory clinics and memory services about their experiences of working with British South Asian service users. We need to hear about an...

Do you have asthma? Are you interested in digital health?
IRAS ref: 312455  22/NW/0137 PARTICIPANTS REQUIRED   For a study looking at a new digital health tool which is designed to help guide people to take their inhaler effectively. We will be lo...

Are you interested in the effects of pollution on health and wellbeing?
Ethics ref; 2022-14762-26354 Are you interested in the effects of pollution on health and wellbeing? PARTICIPANTS REQUIRED We are investigating the effects of indoor and outdoor pollutants on the br...

Can self-injury be addictive? Exploring the potentially addictive characteristics of non-suicidal self-injury
Ethics ref:  2022-13590-24927   Warning: discussion of difficult and potentially triggering subjects of self-injury   Details: This research project (based in the Division of Psyc...

Have a baby under 24 months? Interested in taking part in research?
Ethics ref:  2020-10804-17344   We are looking for volunteer caregivers of children under 24 months (with no concerns about their hearing) to take part in research which will improve how we...

The Effect of Training and Brain Stimulation on Visual Search Performance
Ethics ref: MODREC (Application No: 2140/MODREC/22   We are looking for individuals to take part in a study investigating whether we can enhance cognitive performance by applying&...

Advice needed from autistic people via a (very short) web survey!
Ethics ref: 2022-14337-25062   I’m Eden, a trainee audiologist and researcher. Some autistic people have mentioned that they sometimes struggle to hear and understand what’s being sa...

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....