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.

Online survey participant
Ethics ref 21960 Undergraduate Students: Do you have 10-15 minutes?Want to be involved in a study?Curious about the impact of your social comparisons? The study:o    Looking for undergradua...

How the eyes shape our world
Iras 278995 PARTICIPANTS REQUIREDfor a genetic and imaging study investigating the fovea,         the unique area at the back of our eyes that give us sharp, central vision. We ar...

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...

Eurolens Research – Are you a spectacle wearer? Would you like to try contact lenses for the first time in a relaxed, supported environment as part of a clinical study? (ref 734)
Ethics ref: 21387 Study Design This study will investigate the role of a support coach in the success and satisfaction of new contact lens wearers. In addition to providing important clinical da...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...