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 this resource. It was built through interviews, workshops and collaborative sense-making with researchers, practitioners and communities across the UK and globally.
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.
Vocal Collective was commissioned by the Medical Research Foundation to design and test a model for integrating 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'.
Centres for Exchange
Fostering the open and equitable exchange of knowledge, globally.
