The ÖØ¿ÚζSM Participatory Research Seed Fund

Research England’s participatory research funding works to strengthen research outcomes by involving the communities and users of research, to better recognise their experience, needs and preferences, and give greater agency to communities to implement findings.

Enabling us to set up our Participatory Research Seed Fund, we awarded a range of projects involving participatory methods (involving the public as active partners in the research through co-design, co-production and use of lived experience), as well as some ‘citizen science’ projects (where participatory aspects are focused on evidence and data collection/analysis).