Health and Health Inequalities

HIKE: SAFER - Erasing Barriers to LGBTQ+ Participation in Team Sports in the Humber Region Sep 1, 2023 - Aug 31, 2025
The creative research output of Safer is based on Hull research into the lived experiences of Hull’s first LGBTQ+ inclusive sports team, the Hull Roundheads RUFC, and dramatically highlights the cultural barriers to team sports faced by LGBTQ+ youth... Read More about HIKE: SAFER - Erasing Barriers to LGBTQ+ Participation in Team Sports in the Humber Region.

Creative Advocacy in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Feb 1, 2023 - Jul 31, 2023
The Creativity as Advocacy in Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CACAMH) project is a Medical Humanities research project exploring the potential of creative activities as tools for child advocacy within the mental health system. The project respond... Read More about Creative Advocacy in Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

DueCARE: Defining and estimating current and future Unmet palliativE CARE needs in the UK Jul 1, 2024 - Dec 31, 2025
What do we want to find out? We want to understand how many people have unmet palliative care needs in the UK, both today and into the future.

Why is this important? As our population ages, the number of people living and dying with serious illne... Read More about DueCARE: Defining and estimating current and future Unmet palliativE CARE needs in the UK.

Exploring GP referral behavior for serious non-specific symptoms where cancer is suspected Apr 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2024
This is project will be funded through money from the York and Scarborough Trust. To look at the referral behaviour of GPs when faced with a patient with vague symptoms that could be cancer.

The funding would come from York and Scarborough Te... Read More about Exploring GP referral behavior for serious non-specific symptoms where cancer is suspected.

: A Targeted Approach To Reduce Risk of Blood Clotting in MPN Patients Oct 1, 2023 - Apr 1, 2025
A new mechanism has been identified where an intracellular switch, called AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) inhibits the function of constitutively active JAK2V617F protein responsible for disease in many patients with MPNs. Based on this observati... Read More about : A Targeted Approach To Reduce Risk of Blood Clotting in MPN Patients.

Prevalence of cirrhosis and its related complications amongst patients with hereditary haemochromatosis in England Apr 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2026
This is a study with Robert Driver and Simran Singh from York Teaching hospital. The project is about Prevalence of cirrhosis and its related complications amongst patients with hereditary haemochromatosis in England. And we will require the NHS digi... Read More about Prevalence of cirrhosis and its related complications amongst patients with hereditary haemochromatosis in England.

HIKE: Development of a commercial urine test for the earlier detection of endometriosis Jul 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2025

Endometriosis is a chronic incurable condition that is associated with debilitating pain and subfertility. It affects 190 million women worldwide, takes 8 years to diagnose and costs the UK economy £8.2 billion each year in loss of work (predomin... Read More about HIKE: Development of a commercial urine test for the earlier detection of endometriosis.

Occupational stress risk assessment: AACE Ambulance Trust Sep 4, 2023 - Mar 31, 2025
The project aims to explore the root causes influencing occupational stress and subsequent impacts on mental wellbeing amongst staff within the specific area of control rooms in ambulance services. The project aims to examine the range of occupationa... Read More about Occupational stress risk assessment: AACE Ambulance Trust.

RDS Amputation PPI Apr 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2024

Funding for Alice Fearn to attend the EACR annual conference Jun 1, 2023 - May 31, 2024
Funding for travel, accommodation and registration the EACR 2023 Congress, Torino, Italy. Poster presentation accepted

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