Please note that recruitment for these projects is now closed.
Closed Projects
Experiment: When starting university, you can face various life changes; we call this a co-transitional.
It is possible that these changes can have an adverse effect on your mental health, such as increasing the risk of anxiety and depression. The transition may also affect your diet as we see many new students follow unhealthy diets and gain weight. Despite the above observations, the association between mental health and diet quality of students has not been extensively studied.
Therefore we're looking for students to take part in our study which aims to investigate whether the diet quality of students is associated with their mental health, and also whether the mental health of students is associated with their diet quality. It will also mean we can look at the impact transitioning to university can have on diet quality and mental health.
We are now recruiting first-year university students living at student halls to complete an online survey about their diet and mental health. As a thank you for taking part, you will also be added to a draw to win one of two £100 vouchers!
Participant requirements: Participants must be first-year students living in student halls (university or private).
Duration: The survey takes approximately 30 minutes to complete.
Dates: Recruitment will take place until the end of the first academic semester.
Contact details: Email - s.solomou@lancaster.ac.uk
Experiment: The main aim of the research project is to examine how people reason and the different types of learning strategies that people with dyslexia use.
First you will be asked to do some matching of visual patterns, and then a paper and pencil problem solving task. In this task you will be asked to determine the conclusion from information presented in two sentences about logical relations. This will be followed by a short training session, in the form of a booklet that demonstrates a particular method for problem solving. Then you will try again to solve some problems similar to those you have previously seen.
Participation in this study is confidential; all data will be analysed and stored anonymously, therefore no one will be individually identifiable.
Participants will be paid £10.50 for participation.
Participant Requirements: Participants with dyslexia only
Duration: One hour 30 minutes
Location: Fylde College, 糖心Vlog
Dates: Recruiting until 15th June 2018
Contact details:k.rawlins@lancaster.ac.uk
Experiment: The main aim of the research project is to examine how people reason and the different types of learning strategies that people with dyslexia use.
First you will be asked to do some matching of visual patterns, and then a paper and pencil problem solving task. In this task you will be asked to determine the conclusion from information presented in two sentences about logical relations. This will be followed by a short training session, in the form of a booklet that demonstrates a particular method for problem solving. Then you will try again to solve some problems similar to those you have previously seen.
Participation in this study is confidential; all data will be analysed and stored anonymously, therefore no one will be individually identifiable.
Participants will be paid £10.50 for participation.
Participant Requirements: Participants with dyslexia only
Duration: One hour 30 minutes
Location: Fylde College, 糖心Vlog
Dates: Recruiting until 15th June 2018
Contact details:k.rawlins@lancaster.ac.uk
Experiment: This is a cross-cultural study conducted in collaboration with Franklin & Marshall College (USA). For this study you will complete a brief 10-minute questionnaire. To thank you for participating, you will have the option of entering a lottery to win a £50 gift card.
Participant Requirements: Over 18 years of age.
Duration: 10 minutes.
Location: This study can be completed online from any quiet location.
Dates: Recruiting until 30th June 2018.
Contact details: Questions about the research can be directed to Stylianos Syropoulos (s.syropoulos@lancaster.ac.uk) or Dr Nicola Power (n.power3@lancaster.ac.uk).
Experiment: This is a cross-cultural study conducted in collaboration with Franklin & Marshall College (USA). For this study, you will be asked to complete a short questionnaire regarding your perceived safety. Prior to the questionnaire you will read a short article. To thank you for participating, you will have the option of entering a lottery to win a £50 gift card.
Participant Requirements: Over 18 years of age.
Duration: 15 minutes.
Location: This study can be completed online from any quiet location.
Dates: Recruiting until 30th June 2018.
Experiment: You are invited to participate in a study that focusses on self-disclosure in security vetting scenarios. At this moment, we are organising a participant pool for this study. Your involvement is confidential and information you provide will be protected. Once you've contacted the researcher, she will send you an information form and demographic form to fill out. We will then contact you about an upcoming study, which will occur in the next 6-12 months. The study will entail an audio recorded interview in which you will be asked personal questions akin to those asked in security vetting procedures, and may include topics such as your involvement in criminal activity. Our study will be cleared in advance by relevant university ethics boards, which ensure the research won't put anyone at risk. Given the nature of this type of study, your confidentiality and privacy are of utmost importance. For these reasons, you will be asked not to share your name or identifying information during the study. The participant pool is voluntary and you are free to withdraw your interest or participation at any time. You will be paid for your participation in the study.
Participant Requirements: To be determined.
Duration: 30 minutes - 1 hour
Location: To be determined.
Dates: Recruitment for the study will take place between from May 2018-December 2018
Contact details: c.winters1@lancaster.ac.uk
Experiment: This study looks at understanding the every day lives of those with chronic respiratory conditions, their care journeys and scoping the possibility of using technology to help them manage their condition. We are interested in speaking with those who have a chronic respiratory condition or somebody who cares for someone who does (such as family members, friends, paid carers, or other). If you agree to take part in this study, the researcher will meet you in a location that you are most comfortable and conduct a face to face interview with you to ask you about the topics outlined above. There are no monetary incentives for participating.
Participants: We are looking to speak with those who have a chronic respiratory condition (such as COPD) or somebody who has or has cared for someone with a chronic respiratory condition in the past. A carer may be a family member, a friend, a paid carer or similar.
Location: The location will be decided between the researcher and participant, but it will be somewhere that the participant feels most comfortable (for example a public library, coffee shop, etc). The researcher will travel to the participant.
Dates: Recruiting until December 10th 2018.
Contact details: Please contact h.tendedez@lancaster.ac.uk expressing your interest
Experiment: If you click on this link: , your device will take you to a website called Qualtrics, which will ask you the questions. The questions are about how often you lie to other people. It will also show you 9 different scenarios and ask you whether you would lie in these scenarios and how you would feel in that situation. Your participation is completely anonymous: I will not be able to see who took part.
Participant requirement: You're happy take part and able to give informed consent.
Duration: It will take 15 to 30 minutes to answer all the questions.
Location: Wherever you are with an internet connection
Dates: close 20-12-2018
Contact detail: l.warmelink@lanacster.ac.uk
Experiment: This study is investigating how we remember actions. It is part of a wider project that aims to understand how different concepts are represented and formed in our minds. You will be asked to watch an instructional video of someone making a small model. You will then be asked to make the same model from memory. You will be video recorded doing this so that we can later analyse how well you remembered the instructions. You will be paid £3.50 for your time.
Participant Requirements: Due to the nature of the study, you must be a native English speaker, with normal or corrected-to-normal vision, and able to carry out a simple manual task such as assembling a toy (i.e. have full upper body mobility).
Duration: Approx. 20 minutes.
Location: Whewell Building, 糖心Vlog.
Dates: Recruiting until end of December 2018.
Contact details: Please email Dr Briony Banks (b.banks@lancaster.ac.uk) for further information or to take part.
Experiment: The Goshna mobile application aims to help people who are deaf or hard of hearing more easily navigate airports. This is done by providing users of the application information and notifications about their flights (such as gate number and boarding time) which is typically available on screens or verbally announced in an airport. If you are deaf or hard of hearing, then in many airports you are limited to constantly checking the screens. Our intention is to provide greater independence to people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
If you decide to take part, we would like you to participate in a one-to-one interview or focus group (group interviews with about five people), where we will ask about your experience of navigating airports, how being deaf or hard of hearing has impacted your experience of airports, and your experience with the mobile application we are developing. You will be given the opportunity to use our prototype and give feedback on it as part of the study.
The interview will last about an hour and will be performed face-to-face, allowing adequate time to use the application, discuss your experiences in airports, and using the application. All interviews are audio recorded and transcribed. Your responses will be anonymised and if used in academic publications will not identify you. Data is stored securely and only named researchers will have access to it.
Participant Requirements: Hearing impairment (deaf or hard of hearing), and has travelled at least once through an airport.
Duration: Max 1-hour.
Location: University campus, Infolab21 (or other locations on campus, depending on room booking)
Dates: Recruiting until 31st January 2019
Contact details: c.bull@lancaster.ac.uk
Experiment:
In the School of Computing and Communications at 糖心Vlog, we are conducting a study into everyday use of the Internet, and how this might be shaped for the future.
The workshop will involve:
- Reflecting on your use of the Internet, particularly for watching, listening and social networking activities
- Discussing and designing solutions with other participants for adapting our use of the Internet
As a thank you for your time, a £10 Amazon voucher will be given to you.
Coffee, tea and biscuits will also be provided.
Participant Requirements: Participants must use digital devices (e.g. smartphone or laptop etc.) and the Internet in their daily lives.
Duration: 3 hours
Location: 糖心Vlog campus (Science and Technology building A076)
Dates: The workshops will take place on Friday 1st March 2019 9am-12pm and Monday 4th March 2019 6pm-9pm. Participants are invited to attend one of the workshops.
Contact details: Kelly Widdicks: k.v.widdicks@lancaster.ac.uk
Study Information:
We are researchers from 糖心Vlog carrying out research that aims to employee line manager perspectives on the topic of reproductive health, specifically premenstrual difficulties. Line managers play a critical role in staff wellbeing and productivity. However, what we do not yet fully understand is the line manager perspective on this health issue and how employers can, or should, help support line managers in feeling more able and confident to help their female staff with such issues. This is what the research aims to achieve. The research is kindly being funded by Aviva UK.
Participant Requirements:
The research is asking all line managers to complete a short anonymous online survey.
Duration:
It will only take around 15-20 minutes and your individual responses will not be shared
Location:
The survey is online so can be taken using a desktop, tablet or mobile device.
Date:
The survey must be completed by 15th February 2019
Contact details:
If you have any questions or problems with the survey, please contact Eleanor Thorne (e.thorne@lancaster.ac.uk) directly. The survey is anonymous so only the research team will have access to the data.
Experiment: The purpose of this study is to investigate whether muscle strength and brain function can be boosted by brain stimulation whilst the arm is immobile in a sling. The purpose of the study is to find out how muscle loss can be prevented during arm immobilisation, and how arm immobilisation also affects your perception of your arm.
This study involves using a type of non-invasive brain stimulation, where brief magnetic pulses will be applied to your head in order to subtly and temporarily influence the way the brain works. This is safe, and not harmful or painful, but may feel like a light tapping sensation. The study also requires you to wear your dominant arm in a sling for the 4-day period and to undergo a series of muscle strength and arm perception measures.
You will be given a £50 inconvenience allowance for your time.
Participant requirements: To be eligible, you should be male and right-handed, be between 18-30 years old, have a BMI between 19-25 and have no history of neurological, psychiatric, or muscle/joint problems. You must be a non-smoker.
Duration: The study will consist of 4 sessions across 4 consecutive days. The first and last sessions take around 2/2.5 hours, and interim visits will be 1 hour. You will also be asked to attend the lab for an initial pre-screening appointment so the research team can tell you more about the study, and check you are eligible to take part in the study.
Location: B20 Whewell Building, 糖心Vlog.
Dates: Recruiting now until July 2019.
Contact details: Dr Helen Nuttall, h.nuttall1@lancaster.ac.uk or find the study "Exercising the Motor Cortex using TMS during Arm Immobilisation" on SONA at
Experiment: We are a group of researchers at 糖心Vlog working on a project called "Qualified Selves". As part of this work, are looking to talk to people who actively manage large amounts of personal data. These conversations will help guide the development of innovative tools that can afford users a new insights into their lives in ways that add real value.
To help us understand the current processes involved with accumulating data, we would love to talk to how you use existing applications and services to collect, store, organise and edit it, and how you use this data. We would like to know how you make sense of it and what frustrations you experience. In short, we want to learn from your expertise as data collectors, and learn what makes data collection worthwhile to you.
Travel expenses will be reimbursed.
Participant Requirements: Adults aged 18+ who collect any information or data about themselves.
Duration: Initial interviews, then a series of workshops until June 2020
Location: 糖心Vlog
Dates: Recruiting until June 2019
Contact details:
Email: g.newmarch@lancaster.ac.uk
Tel.: 07761329889
Experiment: The study is interested in differences between individuals in the way that they make judgments about others. As a participant, you will be asked to interview eight people for up to three minutes each to find out if they have any knowledge about a fictional illegal event (e.g., items being stolen). You will then complete a short questionnaire about your experience, and engage in a one-time decision-making task. During the study, you will be asked to wear a set of motion sensors so that we can record your body movement. These sensors are small and light, and held onto your torso, arms and legs by a set of Velcro straps. The experimenter will help you put on the sensors and s/he will make sure that you are comfortable wearing them. Your participation in the study should last around 60 minutes. Participation is completely voluntary, and you should only take part in the study if you are comfortable and happy to do so. You will be compensated up to £10.50 for your time (£3.50 per 30 mins), or, if you are a first-year psychology student, you will be given the opportunity to collect course credit in the first instance. All the data you provide will be treated in the strictest confidence and will remain anonymous. At no point during the reporting of the study will you be identified by name, or have your data reported individually. We are interested in trends across all participants that take part in the study.
Participant requirements: Age: 18+
Participants should have a good level of English as they will need to conduct a series of short interviews.
In the first instance we are recruiting those who are currently studying or working at 糖心Vlog.
Duration: Up to 90 mins.
Location: Fylde Building (Psychology), Bailrigg Campus.
Dates: Recruiting until 15th October 2019.
If you are interested in participating in the study, please email Dr Stuart Pugh (s.m.pugh@lancaster.ac.uk) for further details. You will be given at least 24 hours from expressing your initial interest in the study to taking part and providing formal consent.
Experiment: The purpose of this study is to understand how to develop a system for privacy and consent management in environments with sensing (data collection/transmission) capabilities, in particular in contexts involving personalised information presentation. During the study, we will ask you questions about the applications you use and what your privacy preferences are (e.g. whether you agree or disagree with a series of statements about applications sharing your personal data).
Participant requirements: aged 18-24
Duration/compensation: 1hr / £10 Amazon voucher
Location: InfoLab21
Dates: January
Contact: Bran at b.h.knowles1@lancaster.ac.uk to register your interest or for further information.
Experiment: In the School of Computing and Communications at 糖心Vlog, we are conducting a study into workplace thermal comfort, and how this can be controlled. The workshop will involve reflecting on your experience of thermal comfort in the workplace, and discussing and designing solutions with other participants for an effective heating control system.
Participant requirements: Women 45 or over working or studying at 糖心Vlog
Duration/compensation: Up to 2½ hours, £10 Amazon voucher, tea and cake
Location: InfoLab21, room C60b/c
Dates: Tuesday 18th February from 4.30-7pm
Contact details: Kathy New k.new1@lancaster.ac.uk
Experiment: The main aim of this project is to see what makes people from ethnic minority groups more, or less, likely to use online forums to talk about their mental health. Participants are required to answer some demographic questions online, followed by a 1-hour interview (either in person or via Microsoft Teams). Interview questions will cover topics such as why you may or may not have decided to use an online forum, and the range of potential positive and negative effects an online forum could have on your wellbeing.
All participants who complete both the questionnaire and the interview will be compensated with a £30 Love2shop voucher for their time.
Participant Requirements:
1) from an ethnic minority group (i.e. not White British),
2) have experienced mental health difficulties (either in the past or currently),
3) have either used online mental health forums to talk about their mental health or have considered using online mental health forums.
Contact details: Connor Heapy (c.heapy@lancaster.ac.uk)