Public insights
One way of helping us to appreciate people's views about our work and our science is through public attitude studies. We get involved in a variety of public attitude studies, very often with partners, as advisers, commissioners, funders or enablers. This work helps to ensure that we are aware of public attitudes to medical research and to take account of public concerns. Insights from this work can also help our researchers understand how best to communicate their work.
Title of public dialogue activities and attitude surveys |
Partners |
Year |
Understanding Patient Data | A task force led by Wellcome and supported by the MRC | On-going |
Research Councils UK Public Insight Research | Led by RCUK on behalf of the UK Research Councils | 2017 |
Led by Wellcome on behalf of a consortium of funders of UK public research including the UK Research Councils |
2015 |
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Led by Genetic Alliance UK with funding from the MRC |
2015 |
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Led by Understanding Animal Research with support from the MRC and ScienceWise |
2013 |
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Developed by the PiiAF Study Group with funding from the MRC |
2013 |
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Public and professional views towards donating human biological samples for biomedical research |
Led by the Strategic Tissue Repository Alliances Through Unified Methods (STRATUM) with support from the MRC |
2013 |
Public dialogue on data openness, data re-use and data management |
Led by RCUK on behalf of the UK Research Councils |
2012 |
Assessing Public Attitudes to Health Related Findings in Research |
Led by Wellcome with support from the MRC |
2012 |
Led by EPSRC on behalf of the UK Research Councils |
2009 |
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Led by the MRC in partnership with Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), with support from Sciencewise |
2008 |
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Public Consultation on the Use of Personal Health Information in Research (PDF, 1.43MB) |
Commissioned by the MRC |
2007 |
Public Consultation on Ageing Research - Research into Public Attitudes Towards |
Led by the MRC in partnership with Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
2006
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Factors Affecting Science Communication by Scientists and Engineers |
Led by The Royal Society on behalf of a consortium of organisations including the UK Research Councils |
2006 |
Commissioned by members of the Coalition for Medical Progress including the MRC |
2005 2002 |
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Public Consultation on Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies |
Run in partnership with Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Department of Health and the Food Standards Agency |
2004 |
Public Consultation on the Use of Human Embryos in Medical Research |
Commissioned by a consortium of organisations including the MRC |
2003 |
Commissioned by the MRC |
2003 |
Consultations responses
Details of MRC written submissions to consultations and inquiries including parliamentary select committees, Government and other organisations are available at Consultation responses.