Boosting study recruitment by engaging with Be Part of Research
March 28, 2024
We were all so excited when the Eczema Bathing Study opened to recruitment on 29 January. It’s the first study to come out of the Rapid Eczema Trials research programme and is trying to find out whether it’s better to have a shower (or bath) daily or just once or twice a week when you have …
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 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 …
We all bathe differently
March 9, 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. The first question we are answering is about bathing, so our citizen scientist Tressa Davey has been looking into …
What is the RAPID Eczema Trials project?
August 23, 2022
Researchers always wear white lab coats? Obviously, that is a stereotype, which is seldom correct. They are generally indistinguishable for the rest of the population. Open minded, curious, careful and rigorous. And with this “citizen science” project, the researchers can be anybody who has lived experience of eczema. Amazement, disbelief and excitement hit all of …
