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📣 We’re taking a break from 19 December 2025 to 6 January 2026 and won’t be monitoring our social channels or email inbox during this time.

Wishing everyone a restful end of the year and a very happy start to the new one.

📣 “For me it’s the little things that no one really thinks about that make a big difference.”

Mehar shares how living with photoaggravated atopic dermatitis (PAD) has shaped daily life, identity and community.

Read her blog to find out more: https://zurl.co/Y35FB

The Little Things Find out Mehar’s experience of living with photoaggravated atopic dermatitis and being involved in My Skin & Sunlight.

📣 How do we build equitable partnerships in research?

The Respectful Research Charter sets out 5 guiding principles co-produced with local community organisations and researchers:

1. Community leadership
2. Respect for community values
3. Embedded research in communities
4. Use accessible approaches
5. Mutually beneficial relationships for all

Read more here: https://zurl.co/lpCUu

The Greater Manchester Respectful Research Charter Creating equal partnerships and collaboration between researchers and the voluntary sector.

📣 How do we create respectful and equitable partnerships between researchers, community organisations and communities in Greater Manchester?

Join this free webinar to find out more about the Greater Manchester Respectful Research Charter and how its principles can help you.

🗓️ 02/12/2025

🔗 Register here: https://zurl.co/d2PXi



& African Health Network (CAHN) Applied Research Collaboration Greater Manchester (ARC-GM) Manchester VCFSE Leadership Group Greater Manchester

All About Alopecia shows what’s possible when people with lived experience and researchers work together. It’s about community, confidence, and making research more relevant to people’s lives.

Find out how we worked with people with alopecia to shape it and how it made a difference: https://zurl.co/ddxUC



Alopecia UK - Charity Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre The University of Manchester

📣 Communicating effectively about research is crucial to making it more accessible.

Find out how in this guide co-produced with the Black and Asian Research Advisory Group: https://zurl.co/7rrdv

📩 Read below to learn more.

Inclusive communication about research Communicating effectively about research is crucial to make it more accessible to everyone.