HVM was commissioned in May 2020 by the Canal & River Trust to run a short-term stakeholder engagement on the Water Safety Zones proposed on the Lee Navigation. Read the findings report and recommendations here…

The Ada Lovelace Institute has today launched the report of the Citizens’ Biometrics Council. Find out more about our deliberative collaboration here.

On 11th November Which? launched the report of the public dialogue delivered with Hopkins Van Mil (HVM) to collect views on future trade deals. Read more about what people said were the most important aspects of trade deals - from food to digital services.

HVM is working with Demos on a public deliberation about the future of our tax system funded by the Standard Life Foundation. The project is unique in three ways - find out why…

Have you been involved in Public Patient Involvement (PPI) groups? Are you interested in how data is used for planning and research in health and social care? Then read on…

HVM are working with the National Food Strategy on their public dialogues to design and facilitate a series of workshops to deliberate on the priorities and outcomes of the food strategy. The project is supported by Sciencewise and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

Due to Covid-19 restrictions that have prevented us meeting with participants face-to-face, the second round of workshops have been postponed. In the interim, we will be taking the deliberations online - read more to find out how we are taking the National Food Strategy online.

HVM was commissioned in 2019 by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to design, facilitate and report on a small-scale pilot public dialogue on their Digital Environment Programme. The programme was independently evaluated by Resources for Change.

The dialogue participants created recommendations for NERC - read more to find out what they said.

HVM is delighted to work with the National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care (NDG), and continue to work with Understanding Patient Data, on a new public dialogue to gain understanding on how people assess public benefit in the use of health and adult social care data for purposes beyond direct care. This dialogue is being supported by Sciencewise.

From the summer of 2019 to January 2020 the HVM team used deliberative engagement methodologies to explore what people think about organisations and businesses having access to data held by the NHS. Read the Foundations of Fairness report for insight into what citizens think about what ‘fair’ means in this context.

HVM is looking for someone interested in research to support our work.

After 14 years as Director of Research & Engagement Anita is moving to a new challenge….

Today the Royal Society has published it’s iHuman report on neural interfaces, together with HVM’s public dialogue report on a range of engagements with citizens across the country. Find out more here.

HVM is currently working with Understanding Patient Data, NHS England and the Ada Lovelace Institute on a programme of deliberative public engagement sponsored by the Office of Life Sciences (OLS). The topic is fascinating and complex: exploring a fair partnership between the NHS and researchers, charities and industry on uses of NHS data.

HVM is looking for a new approachable, practical and organised freelancer to support our research work. The opportunity is for one-day a week to begin with, starting from September. If you are comfortable talking to and working with everyone from individual community members to policy makers and shapers and have the attention to detail and flare needed to plan the logistics for small and large scale events, then you’ll enjoy working with HVM. Read on to find out more

This Spring HVM has been running a pilot public dialogue for NERC on digital tools to understand environmental change. This article gives a flavour of what we did

HVM is excited to be at Pocket Gamer Connects today and tomorrow. Contribute your views on the future of Neural Interfaces in gaming by reading on.