The Coventry Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC) has a vision to create a research environment that is open, creative, and dynamic. The HDRC will help Coventry City Council become more research-active and evidence-based in its decision making about how resources are used to tackle health determinants.
Current Opportunities
Public Voice Group
We are on the lookout for committed individuals to join our Public Voice Group.
Is this for you? Do you...
- Live and/or work in Coventry?
- Understand local issues?
- Want Coventry to thrive?
- Care about improving the wellbeing of people from Coventry?
- Have connections with local groups?
- Know the challenges and can offer solutions?
- Want to discuss issues that matter to you and your community?
- Time to commit to meetings every three months?
- Have access to send emails and receive electronic documents?
How we will do this
The first meeting will be held at 10:00 on Thursday 11th July 2024, where you can share your views and find out more about the group.
Find out more
Please register your interest for the meeting by Monday 8th July. Contact Jessica Weeks Tel: 024 7697 6681 or coventryhdrc@coventry.gov.uk
Citizen Social Science Training
Residents that take part will receive mentoring from Coventry University and gain:
- Training on designing and conducting community research
- 1-to-1 support and supervision in researching something of importance to them
- The chance to meet and learn with a range of people from their area
- Becoming part of the HDRC team and learning about the wider impact on them and their community
- Compensation for their research
- Experience for their CV
Participants will attend a number of learning sessions throughout July and early August, before collecting data and finalising their own research project ready to present to Coventry City Council leaders.
Please register your interest by contacting Jessica Weeks Tel: 024 7697 6681 or coventryhdrc@coventry.gov.uk
What is Public Involvement?
Public involvement will ensure that research is done ‘with’ or ‘by’ people in Coventry, and not ‘to’, ‘for’, or ‘about’ them. Public involvement in the HDRC will help ensure that the public rightly have a voice in a collaboration that may affect them. Involvement will also help research to be meaningful, relevant, and impactful, and should provide positive experiences and outcomes for the public involved. This means we need to involve people in Coventry as part of the research team, together with our collaborators. Through our work, we also plan to contribute to the international evidence-base that informs practice in public involvement.
Why is Public Involvement in the Coventry HDRC important?
The HDRC is committed to involving the public so that our research can best impact on health determinants in Coventry. Enabling and achieving good public involvement means we can better serve our community, as the public have a right to be involved in research that could affect them. Public involvement will help our work to be more meaningful, ethical, and relevant, and means we can better learn from the skills, expertise and ideas held among the public.
Public Involvement Standards in the HDRC
The work of the Coventry HDRC will be guided by six UK standards for public involvement:
Inclusive opportunities
- Working together
- Support and learning
- Governance
- Two-way communication
- Impact and evidence
You can read the Coventry HDRC Public Involvement Principles here.
NIHR
The NIHR Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC) Coventry is part of the NIHR and hosted by Coventry City Council.
Visit the NIHR website