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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.

03/11/2025

📣 “I feel uplifted after the session.” – Group member

After Cancer & Us: Community Conversations, we worked with people in Manchester, Healthy Me Healthy Communities , and cancer researchers from the National Institute for Health and Care Research Manchester Biomedical Research Centre to create the Community Cancer Insight Group to embed community perspectives into research.

People in the group share experiences and ideas that help shape research guided by community insight and focused on reducing health inequalities.

👉 Read more: https://zurl.co/B5GLF

Listening to what communities need from cancer research

31/10/2025

📣 “[…]even small pieces of information discovered in the laboratory can significantly impact people’s lives, particularly in breast cancer research.”

Dr Bruno Simões studies how breast cancer develops to find better ways to prevent it. For , Temitope invited him to speak with women from Wonderfully Made Woman to talk about his research.

Find more about his work, supported by the NIHR Manchester BRC: https://zurl.co/5GtsC

Find out how laboratory research helps prevent breast cancer.

29/10/2025

📣 Have you ever wondered how researchers decide what to research?

Hear more from NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre supported researcher Prof Michelle Harvie and Colin, who took part in .

Find opportunities to have your say here: https://zurl.co/GV5LC

27/10/2025

📣 “My motivation is trying to find new ways to prevent breast cancer so fewer lives are lost and families keep hold of their mothers, sisters and daughters.”

Supported by the NIHR Manchester BRC, Dr Sacha Howell is leading research to identify women most at risk of breast cancer earlier.

He met with women from Wonderfully Made Woman to talk about how his research can make a difference to different communities.

Find how here 👉 https://zurl.co/umYr1

Find out how laboratory-based research helps prevent breast cancer.

23/10/2025

📣 What does a “broker” bring to community–research partnerships?

The Ideas Fund’s new insights explore how brokers connect communities and researchers, build trust, and keep collaboration moving.

In Oldham, Vocal and Action Together play this role — more than matchmakers, we’re connectors and problem-solvers.

Find more here: https://zurl.co/8ykVj

The Ideas Fund is a grants programme run by the British Science Association and funded by Wellcome.