Participant in Research Experience Survey

What is it?

The Participant in Research Experience Survey (PRES) has been developed by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).

It measures the experiences of participants in health and social care research.

Why do we deliver PRES?

We ask participants to complete the PRES to understand their experiences of research so that we can improve our delivery in the future and ensure a positive experience for participants.

Feedback helps us to understand what we are doing well, and we can celebrate and share these successes with research staff.

You can read here about how feedback from PRES from one of the COVID-19 vaccine trials running at the NIHR Sheffield Clinical Research Facility was used to make improvements to subsequent vaccine trials running there.

If you are involved in delivering PRES at STH and want to find out more about what you need to do please click here.

PRES reports

2025/2026

Data Studio report - summaries of responses for the multiple choice questions. You can filter the results as you wish (via Trust/quarter/study etc), please note this is not updated in real time.

We will share a summary of all responses on a quarterly basis, but please contact Lucy/Katie to request these if required.

The reports from previous years' PRES are found below:

2024/2025

Data Studio report - Full PRES Report coming soon

2023/2024

Data Studio report & Full PRES Report

2022/2023

Data Studio report & Full PRES Report

2021/2022

Data Studio report & Full PRES Report

2020/2021

Data Studio report & Full PRES Report