Research Design Services and public involvement: a national map

November 2009. This report provides details of public involvement in the Research Design Services.

Author: Lucy Simons

The Research Design Services are funded by the National Institute for Health Research to help NHS researchers and those working with NHS partners to prepare grant applications for applied health or social care research. They do this by providing expert advice and support on research design and methodology.

By compiling this map of their public involvement work, we hope to provide a comprehensive description of how the ten Research Design Services plan to promote and support public involvement in research.

We hope this document will be of interest to the Research Design Services and other organisations concerned with public involvement in research.

No. of pages: 48