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19/12/2025

📣 We’re taking a break from 19 December 2025 to 6 January 2026 and won’t be monitoring our social channels or email inbox during this time.

Wishing everyone a restful end of the year and a very happy start to the new one.

01/12/2025

📅 Tomorrow!

Join us 1-2pm on the 2nd of December to find out more about the Greater Manchester Respectful Research Charter and how its principles can lead to more equitable, trusted and longer-term research partnerships.

🔗 Register here: https://zurl.co/2pJAC

24/11/2025

Are you a community leader in Greater Manchester (GM)?

Join these free webinars to find out more about the GM Respectful Research Charter and its principles – including how to influence research priorities based on what your community needs.

🔗 Find out more & Register here for the session on the 2nd of December: https://zurl.co/frnd7

21/11/2025

📣 The North West has one of the UK’s highest rates of liver disease, but not many people know about it.

In Liver Talks, Jade, Kevin and Rucksana share their experiences of not knowing they were at risk, how they wish they had been told and the kind of personally, and culturally relevant advice they needed.

Co-produced with people at risk of liver disease, community groups and health researchers, this animation is part of a free training resource for health care professionals. Liver Talks provides an opportunity for healthcare teams to discuss and reflect on strategies for having effective conversations.

👉 Learn more & download: https://zurl.co/1sDZk

19/11/2025

📣 “We want you to have your say, we want you to be involved in help to address health inequalities and shape the way that we do research”

Find out more about how laboratory research can benefit you and the importance of having your say in health research with Mon from Wai Yin Society and Dr Fozia Ahmed, NIHR Manchester Clinical Research Facility and NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre EDI Lead.

Find more opportunities here: https://zurl.co/ENE8v

13/11/2025

Find out more about the Greater Manchester Respectful Research Charter and how its principles can help you advocate for your organisation's best interests and secure fairer partnerships from the start.

Join this free webinar:

🗓️ 02/12/25, 1pm to 2pm
🔗 Register here: https://zurl.co/ie1Fd

12/11/2025

📣 “For me it’s the little things that no one really thinks about that make a big difference.”

Mehar shares how living with photoaggravated atopic dermatitis (PAD) has shaped daily life, identity and community.

Read her blog to find out more: https://zurl.co/Y35FB

Find out Mehar’s experience of living with photoaggravated atopic dermatitis and being involved in My Skin & Sunlight.

10/11/2025

📣 How do we build equitable partnerships in research?

The Respectful Research Charter sets out 5 guiding principles co-produced with local community organisations and researchers:

1. Community leadership
2. Respect for community values
3. Embedded research in communities
4. Use accessible approaches
5. Mutually beneficial relationships for all

Read more here: https://zurl.co/lpCUu

Creating equal partnerships and collaboration between researchers and the voluntary sector.

07/11/2025

📣 How do we create respectful and equitable partnerships between researchers, community organisations and communities in Greater Manchester?

Join this free webinar to find out more about the Greater Manchester Respectful Research Charter and how its principles can help you.

🗓️ 02/12/2025

🔗 Register here: https://zurl.co/d2PXi



& African Health Network (CAHN) Applied Research Collaboration Greater Manchester (ARC-GM) Manchester VCFSE Leadership Group Greater Manchester

07/11/2025

All About Alopecia shows what’s possible when people with lived experience and researchers work together. It’s about community, confidence, and making research more relevant to people’s lives.

Find out how we worked with people with alopecia to shape it and how it made a difference: https://zurl.co/ddxUC



Alopecia UK - Charity Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre The University of Manchester

06/11/2025

After 17 years of dedicated leadership, Director Bella Starling is moving on to new challenges.

We’re so grateful for Bella’s vision and care, and wish her all the best in her next chapter.

In this blog, she shares her reflections on her journey with Vocal.

Read it below 👇

She shares her reflections as she begins a new chapter

05/11/2025

📣 Communicating effectively about research is crucial to making it more accessible.

Find out how in this guide co-produced with the Black and Asian Research Advisory Group: https://zurl.co/7rrdv

📩 Read below to learn more.

Communicating effectively about research is crucial to make it more accessible to everyone.