Our team is recruiting participants for a project on building recommendations for documenting and reporting on health research partnerships. This project will involve multiple rounds of surveys where participants will rate aspects of health research partnership on their importance for documenting and reporting on. The potential impact of this project is to inform the development of recommendations that people can use when documenting and reporting on their health research partnership studies for academic publication.
In this project, we define a health research partnership as a collaboration between at least one “researcher” and one “knowledge user/beneficiary” as partners on a health research project. The knowledge user/beneficiary’s defined role includes actively influencing or shaping the health research project. Researchers may include someone who undertakes rigorous study in a topic area in a professional or educational role (e.g., academics, research staff, evaluation consultants, etc.), while knowledge users/beneficiaries represent the people, groups, organizations, or settings, that research is intended to benefit, and/or who can contribute knowledge in decision-making (e.g., healthcare professionals, decision-makers, patients and people with lived experiences, etc.).
If you are interested, we invite you to follow the link below, which will lead you to a pre-screening form. Should you be eligible, you will receive another email invitation with the consent form and the Delphi survey.
Please note that participation is voluntary, and you can withdraw from the project at any time before the results of the project are shared (anticipated: Summer 2026).
If you have any questions or concerns, you may contact me, Dr. Kathryn Sibley, at kathryn.sibley@umanitoba.ca. I am the Principal Investigator for this project, and a Professor in the College of Community and Global Health at the University of Manitoba.
Access the pre-screening form:
https://rcsurvey.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca/surveys/?s=3F89AXN8WLJTLW8N
Eligibility
We are looking for people who meet ANY ONE of the following inclusion criteria:
Knowledge users/beneficiaries who:
· Are decision-makers and have partnered in research, OR
· Are people with lived experience and have partnered in research, OR
· Are health professionals and who have partnered in research, OR
· Are members of organizations in community, health, government, research, or innovation/tech sectors, and who have partnered in research, OR
Researchers:
· Who conduct health research partnerships, OR
· Who study health research partnerships, OR
People who have participated on:
· Research ethics boards, OR
· Editing or publishing for academic journals, OR
· Funding bodies or funding selection committees
Time Commitment
If you are interested, we ask you to participate in three activities:
1. A pre-screening form, which will ask you questions about your identity, working context, and background related to health research partnership, to determine your eligibility as well as to understand the diversity of our participant sample.
(10 minutes)
2. Completing a round of a Delphi survey to review and rate aspects of health research partnerships on their importance for documenting and reporting. The first round was completed in Winter of 2026, and currently we are in the second round.
(1 hour – survey will be open for 3 weeks)
3. Participating in an optional focus group with participants with similar partnership backgrounds as you to discuss health research partnership documenting and reporting items in a shared setting.
(90 minutes)
Compensation
For participating in this project, you may request compensation (i.e., a $30 CAD e-gift card for each component of the project that you complete), including the Delphi survey round, and the optional focus group (A total of $60 CAD). The e-gift card will be sent to the email you provide – all personal information will remain anonymous throughout this process.