My journey into research as a person with eczema
January 24, 2025
I’d had enough of being stuck in limbo with my eczema. I felt like there was not enough educational material out there for people with eczema, and a lot of the questions I had about my condition remained unanswered by healthcare professionals. So, I googled ‘eczema trials’ to see what research was taking place in …
When the answers from health research are not what you want to hear
July 19, 2024
When the answers from health research are not what you want to hear, how do you make sense of them? Negative reactions, disagreement with the findings or disengaging with the research team will not make the results of a clinical trial change or disappear. But I have experienced all those responses when sharing results, which …
Addressing the Eczema PSP priorities with citizen science
May 2, 2024
In 2011, the Centre of Evidence Based Dermatology (CEBD) at the University of Nottingham worked with the James Lind Alliance to run an Eczema Priority Setting Partnership (PSP) exercise. The aim was to identify and prioritise uncertainties around how best to treat and manage eczema. Over 500 individuals took part. The exercise identified 14 priority …
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 …
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 …
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 …
50 at 50: PRIMIS – Transforming primary care data
December 4, 2020
Alongside the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the School of Medicine, a small but important team within the School is celebrating a significant birthday itself in 2020. Over the past 20 years PRIMIS has become the leader in extracting knowledge and value from primary care data, helping to achieve better health outcomes across the UK. The PRIMIS team produces highly effective and …
My BMedSci research experience: a peek into academia
March 26, 2019
It was Friday afternoon, on a turbulent 45-minute bus ride from Derby to Nottingham…whilst my friend complained about motion sickness from the perilous swerves, I exclaimed with unintended passion “now imagine the neonates!” That awkward split-second was when it dawned upon me: my BMedSci* Honours Year research project, in Academic Child Health in the School …
