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A strong and clear approach to community engagement was written into the HDRC’s delivery plan to ensure that residents and community organisations felt they were meaningfully involved in research rather that it being done ‘to them’.
In November 2024, the HDRC held a ‘takeover event’ to enable young people to feed directly into the setting of research priorities for Bradford Council. At the event, 40 young people from 8 youth voice groups attended and were asked to share their priorities.
Working with and for the communities and citizens of Bradford is a central objective of the HDRC. As part of this, they have co-funded a Youth Ambassadors programme, alongside the Policy and Safer Bradford Teams.
To reduce health inequalities, we need to make research more inclusive. Working with community co-researchers can be a powerful way to approach this and is a great way for members of the public with relevant experience to affect positive change in their own communities.
Meet Irum Durrani, Public Engagement Officer at NIHR HDRC Liverpool. The Public Engagement Officer role was created to bring meaningful community involvement into all research activity at Liverpool City Council, and to mobilise community intelligence into decision making across the council.
Over the last 6 months, the HDRC have developed an approach to work alongside residents, universities, local voluntary organisations and council staff to identify research priorities that respond directly to local needs.
A Research Awareness Workforce Survey was carried out across the whole of the Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) workforce in mid-2023.
They over 200 responses which provided a great picture of the levels and types of research activity that local authority colleagues are involved in, and how they can support colleagues to be more research active.
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