One-to-One Advisory Sessions
Talk through your research idea or funding application
Our one-to-one advisory sessions offer tailored support on qualitative methods. These sessions are designed to help you clarify your research design, strengthen methodological coherence, and meet funder expectations.
Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) is central to NIHR-funded research. Through our 1-to-1 advice sessions, we support researchers to develop PPIE that is ethical, inclusive and clearly articulated.
Support is available for planned or ongoing research and for proposals at any stage of development.
You can discuss:
- Qualitative and mixed-methods study design
- Research questions, sampling and data collection
- Data analysis planning
- Methodological justification
- Developing meaningful PPIE
- Responding to reviewer or panel feedback
- Ethics
- Qualitative research training plans
- Qualitative expert collaboration
- Designing strong PPIE plans for funding applications
- Identifying appropriate roles for lived experience contributors
- Writing clear plain-English summaries
- Payment, recognition and support for contributors
- Navigating practical and ethical challenges in involvement
- Mock interview support