Tag: Community involvement

My Imperial Global Development Fellows Fund Placement at Imperial

By Menka

Imperial Global Development Fellow 2025, PhD Research Scholar, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research – MAX-MIME, New Delhi, India

About me

I am currently pursuing a PhD focused on determining the association between periodontal disease and Type 2 Diabetes among the urban slum population of New Delhi. My research aims to assess the effectiveness of a behaviour change intervention, based on the Capability, Opportunity, Motivation for behaviour change (COM-B) model, to improve both periodontal health and glycaemic control in underserved communities.

How did I come to be at the NIHR Imperial Patient Experience Research Centre (PERC)?

With agreement from Professor Sophie Day to act as mentor, I was able to apply to and win generous support from the Imperial Global Development Fellows Fund to complete a short-term research placement at the NIHR Imperial Patient Experience Research Centre (PERC), School of Public Health, Imperial College London from January to March 2025.

Why did nobody ask us?! Reflections and findings from co-produced research into children’s vaccine uptake.

In conversation with Dr Helen Skirrow, Lena Choudary-Salter and Habiba Haque

A recap on our research project

Not enough children in the local area around Church Street, Westminster, London where the Mosaic Community Trust is based get their routine vaccines.  We therefore worked together on our project that Lena Choudary-Salter (Mosaic’s CEO) named ‘Why did nobody ask us?!’ to reflect that local parents’ views who live in an area of low vaccine uptake had not previously been listened to.  We have written about our partnership working before. Children missing out on their routine vaccines is a problem not just in Church Street but in lots of areas of London and other urban areas of the UK, which are poorer and have more ethnically diverse populations.

Why has nobody asked us?! Our journey so far to co-produce research.

This entry is part [part not set] of 0 in the series Case studies

In conversation with Dr Helen Skirrow, National Institute Health Research Clinical Doctoral Research Fellow, Child Health Unit, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London. and Lena Choudary-Salter, Founder and CEO of The Mosaic Community Trust

What is “Why has nobody asked us?” about?

“Why has nobody asked us?” aims to explore families’ experiences and perspectives of childhood vaccinations and is a co-production research project between Dr Helen Skirrow and The Mosaic Community Trust. In the UK, children living in poorer areas of big cities like London who belong to ethnic minorities or who do not speak English at home are less likely to be vaccinated however in previous research the voices of these families have often been missing.