Be Part of Research
Research type
Research Database
IRAS ID
372170
Contact name
Tom Wright
Contact email
Research summary
Be Part of Research
REC name
South West - Central Bristol Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
26/SW/0088
Date of REC Opinion
6 Aug 2026
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion
Data collection arrangements
Be Part of Research (BPoR) is a public facing, voluntary, research recruitment registry. It is open to anyone who resides in the UK and is over the age of 18.
Volunteers can resgiter via the online portal at https://bepartofresearch.nihr.ac.uk/.
Data collected and held in the database is minimal: Volunteer Name, Address, Postcode, Date of Birth, Sex, Gender, ethnicity, email address, phone number (optional), health research interest, presence of a long term condition, and its
impact (no specifics on the condition are collected). The collected data are used only for the targeting and sending of study invites.Research programme
Members of the public voluntarily register with the service so that they can be contacted by researchers conducting research in health areas that they are interested in. Volunteers are matched to suitable studies on the basis of their demographic information, location and health interests. Volunteers are then sent an invite email containing information on the study details and how to enrol or retrieve further details. Contacting the study team is then up to the volunteer. The BPoR registry service is free to use for both volunteers and study teams. Study teams do need to be registered with the BPoR service and eligibility is limited to those studies that meet the below criteria: the study is listed on the NIHR Research Delivery Network Portfolio and/or is in receipt of NIHR funding. BPoR is listed as a recruitment tool in their approved Research Ethics Committee application, along with the study invitation email to be sent to volunteers. The study is registered on ISRCTN or ClinicalTrials.gov (for commercial studies, or those not included in the NIHR RDN portfolio) and that the information on those sites is kept up to date.
Research database title
Be Part of Research
Establishment organisation
University of Leeds (via the NIHR Research Delivery Network Coordinating Centre)
Establishment organisation address
Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9JT