Medics Musical 2024 – 9 to 5: The Musical
February 7, 2024
A favourite event in the Medical School’s calendar is a musical theatre performance organised and cast by fourth year medics. This year, we’ve opted for the lovable music featured in ‘9 to 5’ by Dolly Parton; an uplifting story of three women and the overthrow of their self-absorbed boss. Last year’s musical – RENT – …
Could how you wash be affecting your eczema?
February 1, 2024
As leads for the Rapid Eczema Trials project, we are excited to see the launch of our very first study. We hope this will be the first of many studies that have been designed and run by our Eczema Citizen Science Community. This project gives opportunities for people with eczema to design and run high-quality …
Networking with other citizen science teams
December 18, 2023
In October, Kim Thomas and myself (Rapid Eczema Trials co-leads) attended a networking event and workshop for recently funded NIHR Programme Development Grants in Birmingham. The NIHR is the National Institute for Health and Care Research, which is the NHS research funder. The NIHR are the people funding our Rapid Eczema Trials. All the attendees …
Eczema is Different – Reflections on our first Community Q&A
October 20, 2023
At the end of September, we embarked on a remarkable journey, hosting our inaugural online Community Q&A event. The goal was clear: to foster a sense of community among those touched by eczema and to facilitate open, honest conversations about living with this condition. Six incredible individuals, each with their own unique experiences, generously shared …
An Ex-Student’s Guide to MPT
October 19, 2023
Hi, MPT students, I hope you are enjoying your university experience so far. My name is Zouhra Aabida, an ex-MPT student at UoN. Maybe this might sound cliché but joining UoN was the best decision of my life. I will always be grateful to those people who have been part of my journey from the …
CIEL: The Student Committee for Me
October 12, 2023
Hi fellow MPT-ers! My name is Iona, and I am in my final year of reading Medical Physiology and Therapeutics. Amongst the seemingly continuous (although very enjoyable!) MPT work, playing lacrosse and singing in the University choir, I have somehow squeezed in the time to be part of a fantastic group of students in the …
Eczema Care Online – one year on…
August 31, 2023
It’s now been over a year since we first launched the Eczema Care Online website. We thought it was time we gave you an update on how things are going. The Eczema Care Online website has been accessed by over 20,000 people from 157 countries around the world. This is an amazing achievement, but with …
Rapid Eczema Trials: Life of an intern
August 10, 2023
The Rapid Eczema Trials project involves researchers, healthcare professionals and citizen scientists (people with eczema and parents of children with eczema) working together to answer important questions about eczema by designing and running clinical trials together. Being an intern at the Centre of Evidence Based Dermatology (CEBD) is an opportunity that has changed the trajectory …
A new adventure: designing eczema research as a citizen scientist.
May 31, 2023
The RAPID Eczema Trials team involves researchers, healthcare professionals and citizen scientists (people with eczema and parents of children with eczema) working together to answer important questions about eczema by designing and running clinical trials together. Our citizen scientist Kelly Zhang has shared her experience of being involved… Months ago, I was kindly invited to …
Scrub a dub dub, eczema in the tub – what does the research say?
April 21, 2023
Rapid Eczema Trials team have been deciding which questions about washing are most important to people with eczema. But what does research already tell us about eczema and washing? For people with eczema, there are lots of question marks over how to wash. And as it turns out… very little evidence to guide them! As …
