How You Recruit Research Participants
Recruit online or in-person research participants for your academic research the convenient way!
Create a Study Advert
Create a quick study advert to advertise your study to thousands of online or in-person participants already on the app!
Recruit Participants for Free
If you need more than 5 free participants, then purchase an add-on to recruit as many participants as you need!
Manage Your Participants
Use the app to manage your participants. See who signed up, their ID, have 1-2-1 chats and more!
Why Recruit Participants With WeParticipated?
We’re CONVENIENT
Find in-person and online research participants from the palm of your hand. Zero platform integrations, zero software plug-ins, just a seamless and pleasant app experience.
We’re BIGGER
We’re the only digital platform to actively recruit in-person and online research participants from the UK, all year round.
We’re STICKIER
Our research participants have lower dropout rates. All research participants have public profiles showing their attendance, holding them to account.
Why Take Part in Interactive Research Through WeParticipated?
We’re CONVENIENT
Download our mobile app and sign up to studies immediately. Zero forms, zero silly questions and zero approval processes. Just log into the app, find a study you like and sign up.
We’re BIGGER
Access the UK’s largest collection of interactive in-person and online research studies.
We’re more REWARDING
Get unique in-app content rewards for taking part in research studies that give you access to a range of interesting research related content.
How You Take Part in Interactive Research
Take part in interactive research studies across the UK quickly and easily!
Check out some of the current and previous research studies posted on WeParticipated here!
Find Research Studies
Use the WeParticipated app to browse the largest collection of on-line and interactive in-person research studies across the UK!
Book Your Place
Find a research study you like and sign up by booking a time slot for when you’d like to complete the study!
Get the Latest Science Updates
Browse and read the latest, and most relevant science news in one place!
How We Make It Possible
The Print Room is where researchers create a quick study advert to recruit in-person or online research participants for their academic research. Simply fill in the study advert template in a few seconds. Then sit back and wait for research participants to sign up!
The Announcement Hall is where you can browse all the adverts for the different research studies that are recruiting participants. Filter through or sort these adverts by what interests you. If you see a study you would like to participate in, simply press the sign up button!
The Common Room is where you’ll find summaries on the latest and most relevant research articles in science.
The Marketplace is where you can access a variety of relevant research and educational material. This can be anything from educational material on your rights as a participant, data art, analysis code scripts and much more!
Impact Tokens are WeParticipated’s internal rewards for contributing to the community. When you participate in research studies or advertise your own studies, you get impact tokens! With these tokens you can unlock all the material that is in the marketplace.
FAQs
We’re sure you have some questions and rightly so! We’re here to provide answers.
How Much Does It Cost to Recruit Research Participants?
For each individual study advert you publish on WeParticipated to recruit participants, you can recruit 5 participants for free.
If you want to recruit more than 5 participants for a particular study, you can purchase the “Unlimited Participants” add-on for just £29.99 and recruit as many participants as you like!
Can I Use WeParticipated for My University Dissertation?
Of course!
WeParticipated was created by UK academic researchers for academic research at any level, including: Undergraduate and Master’s dissertations; PhD research projects; trainee clinicians and full-blown academic research programmes.
Our participants are vetted and provide additional informed consent on the WeParticipated app before signing up to your study, in line with ethical guidance!
Will I Be Paid or Rewarded for Taking Part in Research Studies?
Absolutely!
We’ll give you in-app impact tokens to access research-informed content in the marketplace on different science topics, lifestyles, nutrition and much more.
You’ll also be rewarded by the researcher directly, either with cash, a prize draw or a voucher. Sometimes, researchers will offer you even better rewards, depending on the study! For example:
- A free nutritional plan tailored to your genetic profile;
- Hidden biases and preferences based on implicit tests;
- Access to the latest and most innovative technology in a discipline.
Check out some of the current and previous paid research studies posted on the WeParticipated app by pressing here.
Do I Have to Pay to Take Part in Research Studies?
Nope!
You can take part in as many studies as you like and it’ll always be free.
Check out some of the current and previous research studies posted on the WeParticipated app by pressing here.
What Type of Research Can I Take Part In?
A large variety! You can take part in interactive, real-life, in-person research studies in medicine, psychology, sociology, politics, marketing and much more. These can be through clinical trials, focus groups, medical trials, market research and more.
You can go from doing an experiment in a virtual reality forest, to seeing how your brain behaves when you are playing video games!
Check out some of the current and previous research studies posted on the WeParticipated app by pressing here.
Is WeParticipated App-Based?
That’s right!
WeParticipated is a mobile app that you can download for free on iOS and Android. Use the Google Play or App Store download buttons on our webpage to download the app now!