Welcome
Collaborate for Research is a platform designed to connect students with experienced academics and clinicians for research projects, audits, and quality improvement projects. The website facilitates meaningful partnerships, allowing students to gain valuable insights and hands-on experience while contributing to innovative research in the medical field. By fostering these connections, Collaborate for Research empowers the next generation of healthcare professionals to develop their portfolios.
How does it work?
Collaborate for Research makes it easier to find people, ideas and opportunities in research.
Whether you are a student looking for your first research opportunity, a researcher looking for enthusiastic collaborators, or someone with a particular skill you can offer, our platform is designed to help you connect.
1. Create your profile
Join the Collaborate for Research community and tell us a little about yourself.
Share your background, research interests, skills and what you are looking to get involved in.
Your profile helps other members of the community discover you and understand how you could collaborate.
2. Explore
Browse the opportunities and ideas shared by our community.
You can:
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Browse research projects and ideas
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Find experts with specific skills or experience
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Discover events
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Connect with people who share your interests
3. Share your ideas
You don't need to have a fully developed research project to get started.
Have an area of research you're interested in? Post your idea.
Looking for someone with a particular skill? Check our networking pages.
Have a project that needs enthusiastic collaborators? Add your project.
Your idea could be the starting point for a new collaboration.
4. Connect
Found something you're interested in?
Reach out to the person who posted it, apply for an opportunity, or connect with other members of the community.
We want to make it easier to move from “I'm interested in this” to “Let's work on it together.”
5. Collaborate
Once you've found the right people, take your collaboration forward.
Whether that's a research project, audit, quality improvement project, systematic review, publication, medical innovation project or something completely new, Collaborate for Research is here to help you find the people who can make it happen.
Who is the site for?
Students and juniors
Find research opportunities, connect with experienced researchers and build your research experience. For students, resident doctors and early-career professionals looking to gain research experience.
Researchers & Clinicians
Share projects, find motivated students and juniors, and connect with people who can bring new skills and ideas to your work. For researchers, academics and healthcare professionals able to supervise and lead projects.
Experts and Collaborators
Share your expertise and connect with researchers who need your skills — whether that's statistics, engineering, data science, design, economics or another area. For people with specialist skills or expertise who want to contribute to research projects and connect with researchers.
Anyone with an idea
Which membership do I need?
What are you mainly joining Collaborate for Research for?
→ I want to FIND research opportunities and gain experience
Student / Junior
→ I want to SHARE a research project or find people for my research and am able to supervise others
Researcher / Clinician
→ I want to OFFER my skills, expertise or experience to research projects
Collaborator / Expert
Not sure? Don't worry — you don't have to fit perfectly into one category. Choose the membership that best describes what you want to do, and you can connect with the wider community from there.
Still not sure?
Tell us what you're looking for and we'll help you find the right place in the community.
Where did the idea come from?
"During medical school, I was lucky enough to work with a fantastic research team. I learned the importance of collaboration in research and enjoyed the personal development that came along with it.
One of my supervisors invited me to a conference where they told me the importance of networking. I met some other doctors at the conference who worked at the hospital where I was based. They expressed to me how consultants would love to do more research but struggle to find a medical student who is interested.
This got me thinking, I knew lots of my peers were keen to improve their skills and were always looking for research opportunities, they just didn't know where to start. This gave me the idea of Collaborate for Research, a website that assists in fostering effective relationships and promotes advances in research, as well as allowing medical students to improve their portfolios. "
Projects
Primary research
Generating new information to advance medicine
Getting involved with primary medical research means actively participating in the process of new knowledge that can improve healthcare outcomes. This could be designing and conducting clinical trials, helping gather data through surveys, or assisting with observational studies.
Audits / QI projects
Enhancing patient care
Assisting with an audit or QI project is a valuable opportunity to engage in the evaluation of healthcare practices and outcomes. It allows the student to apply their theoretical knowledge in a practical setting, understanding the importance of data accuracy and analysis in improving patient care.
Secondary research
Providing valuable insights and contextual understanding
A unique opportunity to deepen understanding of existing literature and trends in medicine. By analysing and synthesising previously published studies, students can enhance their critical thinking skills and develop a more comprehensive knowledge base.
Systematic reviews / Meta-analysis
Enhance evidence based decision making
By evaluating and integrating data from multiple studies, you can develop the ability to discern quality evidence, which is essential for informed clinical decision-making.