Inclusion Gloucestershire is a disabled people’s organisation that exists to facilitate inclusion for people who face disabling barriers, every day and in every way. We recognise, that no two people ...
Research Engagement Volunteer
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Volunteering • Project role (Temporary)
Contact person
Paul Tyrrell
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To assist the Research Coordinator with participant engagement, recruitment and study promotion across the county.
Summary of the Role
We are looking for volunteers with lived experience of disability to help the research team. The role will involve working on Inclusion Gloucestershire’s bi-annual survey called the ‘Big Survey 2026’. A survey that aims to find out the main areas that are important or are causing unhappiness for disabled people in Gloucestershire.
Main Tasks:
The main tasks of the Research Engagement Volunteer include, but are not limited to, the following:
Participant Engagement:
- With the Research Coordinator and/or on your own, engage with new and existing participants in person and online to build connections and trusted relationships in order to widen participation in the Big Survey. This will include people with lived experience of disability and those with other protected characteristics such as being LGBTQ+, those from communities minoritised by ethnicity and others.
- Along with the Research Coordinator attend meetings in person and/or online to promote the survey
- Promote the benefits of research engagement and impact to participants.
Data Collection:
- Visit settings that potential participants attend to provide support to those who need it to complete the survey.
- Under guidance of the Research Coordinator ensure that consent, data protection and other ethical processes are followed in the collection of data.
- Adapt your communication and take a flexible approach so that the support you provide and any research methods are accessible to disabled people.
- Maintain participant confidentiality.
- Along with the Research Coordinator, conduct additional research if required such as focus groups or interviews with disabled people either online or in person.
- Take a positive and friendly approach to build a rapport with participants.
What we are looking for:
- Good organisational skills
- Commitment to work for the duration of the project.
- An understanding of research methods
- Strong and positive networking skills
- Comfortable presenting at meetings online and in person
- Strong commitment to the principles of user-led organisations.
- To be a patient person who aims to make a difference.
- An understanding of the issues affecting disabled people
- Passionate about using research as a tool for social change
- Ability to travel across the county
- Familiar and confident with the use of social media in a business context
- Reliable, trustworthy and able to handle confidential information
- Good communication skills, ability to easily build rapport with people and to communicate confidently with a range of people from different backgrounds.
- Experience of supporting or working with people facing a range of disabling barriers
What we can offer you:
- Mandatory training in:
- Health and Safety
- GDPR
- Safeguarding
- There are also opportunities to become involved in the wider work of Inclusion Gloucestershire.
Related to
About Inclusion Gloucestershire
Inclusion Gloucestershire is a disabled people’s organisation that exists to facilitate inclusion for people who face disabling barriers, every day and in every way. We recognise, that no two people will be affected by disabling barriers in the same way.
Our Vision is to help people achieve an inclusive society that values, respects and includes disabled people everyday and in every way.
Our Model:
We are user-led and our model places ‘experts by experience’ at the centre of what we do.
They are people who have experience of living with a disability or mental ill health and who know what works for them and what doesn’t.
Every project we work on involves our experts by experience, who are fully supported in what they do.
Being user-led means that the majority of our Board, which makes the important decisions about how we are run, have lived experience of disability. The majority of our staff team are also disabled, so have valuable insight into life with a disability.