Our Projects
We work with Associates and Partners to deliver projects and commissions that make a difference to health and society.
A resource for anyone wanting to begin or deepen their engaged research practice.
Vocal Collective, Mabadiliko CIC and Pivot Collective were commissioned by Wellcome to develop the resource. It was built over two years through interviews, workshops and collaborative sense-making with researchers, practitioners and communities across the UK and globally. It is published under a Creative Commons licence, which means it is free to access, share and adapt.
The Primer is not a toolkit or a checklist. It is a guided journey through four interconnected pathways — why engaged research matters, who to involve, how to do it, and how to know you are making a difference — beginning with an invitation to start with yourself.
Embedding lived experience and practitioner expertise into funding decision-making at the Medical Research Foundation.
Vocal Collective worked with the Medical Research Foundation to design and test a model for embedding lived experience expertise in grant review and funding decisions. Across two live funding calls, we recruited and supported lived experience experts and public engagement professionals, and built a process the Foundation can now run themselves.
The model tested something new: pairing lived experience experts with public engagement professionals as distinct but complementary reviewers, and putting lived experience representatives in the room when funding decisions were made. Feedback was striking. One participant called it a 'gold standard approach'. The full process, templates and tools have been handed over to the Foundation for future rounds.
Centres for Exchange
Fostering the open and equitable exchange of knowledge, globally.
