We’re Experimenting With a WhatsApp Channel! Can you help?

One of the objectives of PCVS’ Health and Care Research work is to develop some guidance for researchers looking to work with communities in Peterborough. We’re doing this to promote researchers working in ways which centre the communities they are looking to research, and that take the wishes of our community members into account.  

(We’re starting work on this properly soon, so watch this space!) 

In the meantime, there are lots of other organisations that are research active that have already produced their own forms of guidance and best practise, and we don’t want to reinvent the wheel, so we’ve been doing a bit of research ourselves.  

One of the things that’s consistently come up is that not everybody likes being communicated with via email. This guidance from the Suffolk and North East Essex Research Engagement Network mentions it a lot, for example: https://sneeics.org.uk/resources/flipbooks/research-champions-information/ 

If you’re reading this, then you know we here at PCVS like an email, but that doesn’t mean it’s the best for everybody, so as an experiment, we’ve decided to start a WhatsApp channel to enable us to share updates on our community research work, as well as calls for participants from other researchers, and other opportunities in and around Peterborough.  

It’s kind of a test for now; we don’t know if anyone will respond to it or if there are other ways that our communities would prefer to hear about research. You can help us out just by checking it out and interacting with it! 

You can follow the WhatsApp channel by following this link: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VbBoEanCsU9JaCmNx60t 

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