Researchers at University of West London would like to recruit people aged over 18 living with a long-term condition, including diabetes, to take part in a study to help them understand and improve the user experience of mobile health apps in hospital.

Taking part involves a10-minute online survey. Additionally, please contact the researcher if you are also interested in participating in the optional interview. 

Researchers at the University of Bristol would like to recruit people aged 12 to 25 with type 1 diabetes living in England and Wales and/or parents/guardians supporting young people living with type 1 diabetes in England and Wales to take part in an online one-to-one chat. This will help them to learn more about how the way that young people with type 1 diabetes eat and how their feelings about food may be affected by living with type 1 diabetes.

Who: Individuals aged 18-40 living with type 1 diabetes who can attend the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff.

What: Giving two blood samples, one in the morning between 7-9am and another 10-14 hours later, at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff. Eligible participants who successfully donate both samples will be provided with a £300 voucher from Lovetoshop.

Researchers at the University of Liverpool seek the views of people aged 50 years and over, who have been diagnosed with diabetes in the past 12 months, on the acceptability of a potential diagnostic test that identifies whether you would benefit from screening for pancreatic cancer.

In a small subset of individuals diagnosed with type 2 diabetes (around 1%), the diagnosis of diabetes is believed to be an early sign of pancreatic cancer. 

Researchers at Imperial would like to recruit adults aged 18+ with type 1 diabetes to take part in a study to understand how people with type 1 diabetes experience stigma in their day-to-day lives and how this impacts the management and experience of their diabetes.  

More than half of type 1 diabetes is diagnosed in adults but very little is known about how the condition develops. Researchers at the University of Bristol are conducting a study testing blood samples in the UK general population to assess people's risk of developing type 1 diabetes.

To take part people must: 
•    be living in the United Kingdom
•    be aged between 18 and 70 years.

Vaccines remain the best way to protect against coronavirus (Covid), but other treatments called antivirals have now been developed that can be used to treat people as soon as possible after they've been infected.

Researchers at Our Future Health would like to recruit 5 million people aged 18 and over to take part in a new study designed to help researchers discover new ways to prevent, detect and treat common health conditions like diabetes, cancer, and dementia. 

It’s really important that young people and families have opportunities to take part in research. A portfolio of studies currently underway and looking to recruit people across the UK can be found on the British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes website.

Families interested in taking part in any of the studies can contact the relevant research teams provided within the descriptions.

Researchers at the University of Essex would like to recruit people between the ages of 18 and 60 years old living with type 1 diabetes to take part in a study that is aiming to understand whether managing type 1 diabetes differs between men and women. This study also invite people with no history of diabetes to participate, as this could help researchers to confirm whether such gender differences are similar to the trend in the broader population without diabetes.