{"id":17563,"date":"2014-08-20T15:38:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T15:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.invo.org.uk\/?page_id=17563"},"modified":"2016-07-08T09:41:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T09:41:40","slug":"social-media-for-active-public-involvement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.invo.org.uk\/find-out-more\/how-to-involve-people\/social-media-for-active-public-involvement\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media for active public involvement"},"content":{"rendered":"
The use of social media as a way to involve people in research is a relatively recent development, so we brought a project advisory group together to consider the opportunities and the challenges of using social media in this way, and to develop guidance.<\/p>\n
The group:<\/p>\n
Guidance on the use of social media to actively involve people in research<\/a><\/strong> Examples of projects using social media for public involvement<\/a><\/strong> The guidance and examples are the first step in helping people to navigate this new type of interaction, and we will look to renew it over time. If you are using social media to actively involve people in research, especially if you are using a type of social media not mentioned in this guidance, please contact us at involve@nihr.ac.uk<\/a>\u00a0and tell us your story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The use of social media as a way to involve people in research is a relatively recent development, so we brought a project advisory group together to consider the opportunities and the challenges of using social media in this way, and to develop guidance. The group: did a scoping exercise to look at the information … <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":784,"featured_media":0,"parent":20086,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.invo.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.invo.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.invo.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.invo.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.invo.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.invo.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17563\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.invo.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.invo.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe guidance provides examples of ways in which different types of social media are currently being used to involve the public in research, the benefits, challenges, risks and ethics of using social media for involvement, and some top tips and things to think about.<\/p>\n
\nThe examples give full details of projects in which social media has been used to involve members of the public.<\/p>\n