Community Research Champion

Are you interested in improving and promoting health and care research in your community? Become a Community Research Champion and help to make health and social care research more inclusive and effective.  

Health and social care research helps us to find new treatments and to ensure they’re safe and effective, diagnose conditions better and earlier, and prevent illness and look after ourselves.  

However, research participation doesn’t always reflect the different groups in our communities, those most affected by a health condition, or how different groups respond to treatments. This is where Community Research Champions can help!  

What is a community research champion? 

Community Research Champions are members of the public, patients, and carers, who want to make a difference in developing better health care and treatment. 

They help spread the word about research in their communities, help health and care staff understand patients’ experience of research, and find out about people’s awareness and views towards health and social care research. This could be through finding out about existing groups, services or places in their community, 1-to-1 conversations, or group workshops. What champions do can be shaped by them and be flexible to their local area. 

A Research Champion does not need any prior experience or knowledge about health and social care research. Free training and resources are provided by National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) to all Community Champions so that they have the knowledge and tools they need for the role. 

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This is a very flexible role that can take into account your own interests and community connections. We'd encourage you to contact us if you have an interest in health and care research in Peterborough and we can go from there!