MS Peer Researcher Training Programme resources
Discover a ready-made training programme to help your MS peer researchers build their qualitative research skills.
What is peer research?
Peer research is a participatory research method. It involves people with lived experience of the issues under study in directing and carrying out research.
It aims to empower people to affect positive change by taking part in research about their own communities.
Peer researchers are also known as community researchers and help generate information about their peers for research purposes. They do this using their lived experience and understanding of a social or geographical community. They may contribute to research design, develop research tools, collect and analyse data, and share findings.
Peer research can also be called user involvement or service user research. For example, when researchers carry it out with users of a specific service as part of an evaluation.
Why use this peer researcher training programme?
We offer a tried and tested set of training resources for you to use when training peer researchers. Queen Mary University of London developed this programme as part of an award-winning peer researcher project we funded.
This training programme helps peer researchers develop an understanding of:
- the peer researcher process and role
- qualitative research design
- qualitative data analysis
- research ethics
How to use this peer researcher training programme
This training programme is designed as four modules. You can deliver all four modules or choose the ones that best fit your project.
You can download the PowerPoint slides for each module. These slides work for both in-person or online training sessions. The Research Training Guide document includes details of the pre reading for each module. As well as practical information for the trainer such as session length and key learning points.
The Training Material Pack includes information and resources to support the learning from the sessions. It also includes the suggested pre-reading which accompanies each session.
You can also find useful materials to help you set up your team of peer researchers. Including a template role description and example payment structure for different tasks.
