Researchers at Liverpool John Moores University would like to recruit volunteers, aged 18 or over, to tell us about their experience of being switched to a different brand of their usual insulin (also known as a biosimilar). 

To be eligible, you will need to be a person living with diabetes who has been switched to a different brand of their insulin (for example, from NovoRapid® to Trurapi®, Humalog® to Admelog® or Lantus® to Semglee®/Abasaglar®).

We are conducting this study to understand how people have experienced switches and to inform future practice.

Researchers at Leeds Beckett University would like to recruit adults:

Are you a midlife female living with diabetes? Have you reached that stage of life when you could be peri or menopausal? We would like to learn from your experience.  

Most women don’t know this, but there’s very little research into how menopause affects diabetes - and almost none on how diabetes affects menopause.  

Perimenopause is the years before menopause, and they’re no picnic!

Researchers at Glasgow Caledonian University would like to recruit people with diabetes who have reduced or no sensation in their feet (termed 'neuropathy'), to take part in a study aiming to make personalised 3D-printed insoles to reduce pressure for at-risk feet.

The study involves two visits to our lab in Glasgow Caledonian University. During the visits, you will be asked to walk on a pressure platform and have your foot shape captured using a 3D scanner. This will be used to create custom 3D-printed insoles. 

Researchers at University of East London (UEL) would like to recruit psychological professionals (qualified or in training) with experience of working with young people (aged 16 to 25) living with type 2 diabetes to take part in a study that is exploring clinicians’ views, perspectives and experiences on their clinical work. 

They hope that the findings could contribute to the development of tailored psychological care for young people with type 2 diabetes and to spark interest in this under-researched area. 

Have you been diagnosed with diabetes? Would you like to help shape how diabetes clinicians communicate with people about food and eating?

A study is being conducted by a team of researchers at Warwick Medical School, the University of Birmingham, and Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust. The purpose of this study is to better understand people’s experiences of communicating with diabetes clinicians about food, weight, and disordered eating, and to co-produce communication guidelines for clinicians.

Researchers at the University of Hull would like to recruit people from an ethnic minority background who have had NHS bariatric surgery to take part in a study that aims to understand experiences of NHS care during and post-bariatric surgery. This will help close a gap in research and aim to improve the experiences of care received by people from ethnic minority backgrounds.