Imperial College London
Welcome to VOICE at Imperial
Imperial College London became the first collaborator to join VOICE in January 2019, with the ambition to improve and facilitate the way we involve patients and members of the public in our research.
Imperial College London works with the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust to undertake world-class experimental medicine research to improve patient care. At the centre of this partnership is the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), which aims to transform scientific discoveries into clinical practice.
The public, including patients and carers, are at the heart of what we do. Through VOICE, we hope to capture the wealth of experience and valuable perspectives that only patients and members of the public can offer on the way our research is designed and delivered.
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Children’s Creative Superhero Challenge
An opportunity for children aged 8-12 to share their experience of healthcare via this creative writing/drawing challenge.
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Help inform our research on pregnancy and...
This is an opportunity to join an online discussion to inform pre-pregnancy cardiovascular health research
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How to Use SMS Messages in Screening Programmes
This is an opportunity to shape the way in which screening programmes send messages to patients.
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Investigating the differences between men and...
This is an opportunity to shape research exploring why women are dying and suffering more from complications of abdominal aortic aneurysm repair than men.
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Help inform upcoming research on patient outcomes...
This is an opportunity to shape research looking at patient recovery and quality of life after complex abdominal operations
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Understanding the spread of COVID-19
An opportunity to hear from two experts about their research on detecting COVID-19 in the environment and how it spreads between people.
Learn moreCommunity involvement during COVID-19
The Patient Experience Research Centre (PERC) at Imperial College London are developing research to explore and understand people’s views about, experiences of and behavioural responses to the new coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in the UK and elsewhere.
To guide that effort and to help inform COVID-19 research and responses more broadly - for example in mathematical modelling and policy - we launched an online community involvement initiative on VOICE that sought rapid, early insight from members of the public and aimed to establish a network for ongoing community engagement.
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COVID-19: Community Engagement Support Group
Members of this Group will help to support, inform and guide Imperial College London's COVID-19 research, response planning and ongoing community engagement and involvement plans during the outbreak.
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This is where we share updates about our research activity, including how VOICE members are improving the quality and impact of what we do.
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Join our passionate community of members of the public, patients & carers for today. Remember, becoming a member is absolutely FREE of cost & commitment.
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Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (the “College” or “Imperial”) is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information. This privacy notice describes how VOICE at Imperial collect and use personal information about VOICE members during and after their relationship with us, in accordance with the applicable data protection legislation and the College’s Data Protection Policy.
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“We are keen to involve the public in all our health-related research, which covers a wide range of topics.”
- Ageing, e.g. dementia, lifestyle factors
- Big Data & Digital Health, e.g. data science and artificial intelligence, security
- Blood, Heart & Circulation, e.g. stroke, surgical interventions
- Brain & Mind, e.g. brain injury, mental health
- Cancer, e.g. breast cancer, colon cancer, biomarkers
- Children & Young People, e.g. mental health, vaccinations
- Digestion & Gut Health, e.g. IBD, microbiome
- Emergency & Critical Care, e.g. intensive care
- Healthy Living & Wellbeing, e.g. sleep, self-care, living with multiple conditions
- Inflammation & Immunity, e.g. Lupus, vasculitis, chronic kidney disease
- Infectious Diseases, e.g. COVID-19, tuberculosis, flu, HIV, hepatitis C
- Lung & Airway Health, e.g. asthma, COPD
- Medical Innovation, e.g. novel diagnostics, drug discovery
- Nutrition & Metabolism, e.g. diabetes, obesity, hormones
- Pain, e.g. chronic pain
- Public Health, e.g. health surveillance, prevention and protection
- Women's Health, e.g. reproduction, maternal vaccinations, preterm birth
There is often more going on behind the scenes so if you do not see anything of interest among our current opportunities, please get in touch. We may be able to match you up with something that’s in the pipeline, or you may inspire us to do something totally new.
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Explore our latest opportunities and let your insights, ideas and experience shape how we work.
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If you have any questions or queries about opportunities published and managed by VOICE at Imperial, please email us on [email protected].
If you are a staff member or student at Imperial College London and wish to learn more about how the VOICE platform can support your public involvement efforts, visit the For Researchers tab for general information, visit Imperial College’s internal VOICE at Imperial web page for specific guidance or email the team on [email protected] for any other queries.
VOICE at Imperial is managed by several research centres at Imperial College London, including the NIHR Imperial BRC’s Patient Experience Research Centre, the Institute of Global Health Innovation and the Imperial Clinical Trials Unit. Content administrators are on hand to support researchers from their respective centres and members of the public who engage with their opportunities through VOICE.
Meet the VOICE at Imperial team
Philippa Pristerà
Research Associate & Public Involvement Advisor, Patient Experience Research Centre
Halle Johnson
Public Involvement Officer, Patient Experience Research Centre
Anna Lawrence-Jones
Public Involvement & Engagement Manager, Institute of Global Health innovation
Marie Miller
Patient & Public Involvement Coordinator, Imperial Clinical Trials Unit
Get involved in our Opportunities
Explore our latest opportunities and let your insights, ideas and experience shape how we work.
Find out moreGet involved in our Groups
Join a Group to take an active role in a specific topic or project and follow developments as they happen.
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