Researchers from the University of Bath's Department of Psychology would like to invite anyone over the age of 18 who has previously experienced a mental health problem to take part in an online research study answering several questionnaires. It doesn’t matter if you...

Over one million people in primary care have actively participated in research studies looking at healthier lifestyle, disease diagnosis and prevention, and management of long term illnesses such as diabetes. Clinical research is the way clinicians in primary care (including...

Pain is a common experience in young people who experience chronic illness, and a burden for many of these young people. Young people who experience ongoing pain report poor outcomes in terms of psychological, physical, social and peer-related functioning. Whilst...

The 2015/16 NHS Research Activity League Table, published by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), shows all local NHS Trusts are delivering clinical research, as set out in the NHS Constitution. The League Table provides a picture of how...

A study, supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network (CRN), has found that bowel cancer patients are more likely to survive in research-active hospitals. Even patients who are not involved in the trials themselves benefit...

Dr Edmund Keogh, a reader in Psychology, discusses whether pain in one individual can affect the pain experiences of another and if pain be socially transferred.  He begins by examining a study,  published in Science Advances, that found the presence...

Researchers from the University of Bath are interested in talking to young people who experience pain and their families to help us understand what it is like for individuals and their families to live with pain and to learn more...

The 15th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs was attended by specialist health professionals and researchers with a remit to help people with special needs through computing. Professor Sarah Parsons, from the Digital Bubbles team, presented the...

Dr Lisa Austin, University of Bath, represented the Digital Bubbles team and their ASCmeIT smartphone application at this this year’s PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) conference in Corfu. The ASCmeIT app allows people with Autism Spectrum Conditions –...

This innovative two-day international conference is being held at University College London, UK on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd July 2016. It is estimated that 14 million people live with chronic pain in England alone. 25% pain sufferers lose their...