Community Researchers

***LATEST NEWS: Join this Community Researchers programme, deadline for entries 27 July 2025.***

Here at Southampton Collective, we are keen to see communities at the heart of all conversations about Southampton's future and people's lives here in the city. We want to make sure that all decisions and services are reflecting the lived experience of residents and those most impacted.

Between Autumn 2024 and March 2025, we worked with Southampton Voluntary Services to help them deliver Southampton Coproduction Corner. This continued the work that our Director Rebecca was doing previously as project coordinator Sept 2023 til July 2024.

One of the recommendations from the Making Coproduction Meaingful work, was that there should be more focus on supporting people to run and host community conversations. We are now working with University of Southampton to help deliver some training sessions on Hosting Public Engagement Conversations.

Please see the above advert. 

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University of Southampton / Southampton Collective

Community Researchers!

Get reimbursed £25 per hour to learn new skills!

Want to learn ways to get more people excited about research?

We have four places available for our new training course on Hosting Public Engagement Conversations.

When: Two sessions in September 2025 (dates to be confirmed)

Where: Southampton General Hospital, SO16 6YD

Length: Two hours, each session.

You don't need experience in reseach to take part - just an interest in talking about reseach with your community.

Sign up! Email us before 11.59pm on 27th July with 100-200 words telling us why you want to take part: engaged.medicine@soton.ac.uk

Training delivered by Rebecca Kinge (Southampton Collective)