This project is dedicated to bringing to life the overlooked history of local South Asian and other ethnic minority groups from South Shields affected by dementia.

The Unmasking pain (UP) team is making a start on producing a unique Creative 10-Footsteps programme for living well with pain, utilising our amazing UP artists, scientists, health workers and pain liver participants to guide our way.

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At Live Well with Pain, we know that living with persistent pain can impact on every aspect of your life, even to the point where it feels like it has become your life. Self-management looks at all these parts of your life and offers ways to make changes so you can get more out of your life. It’s about discovering new ways to deal with the effects of pain on your life, learning new skills, and ‘taking back control.’

The latest Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing Newsletter should have arrived in your inbox this morning!

The latest Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing Newsletter should have arrived in your inbox this morning!

Supported self-management is an approach to chronic pain that involves shared decision making, co-production of treatment, and equipping patients with the skills to manage their pain outside of clinical consultations.

The Marketing and Communications Office has arranged for Fiona Lethbridge, Senior Press Manager at the Science Media Centre, to visit the University.

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Nature is often the best chemist.

Nevrargenics Ltd is a UK-based neuroscience company (spin out of Durham university chemistry department, CEO Professor Andy Whiting) specialising in the discovery and development of novel medicines for the treatment of neurodegenerative disease, such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Multiple Sclerosis, Motor neuron disease (MND), and other neurological and psychiatric diseases.

Are you an ECR looking for constructive feedback on a research idea or proposal for funding (e.g., an internship or PhD proposal, a fellowship application, internal or external grant funding) that is related to health and wellbeing (broadly construed)? If so, the Wolfson Research institute for Health and Wellbeing (WRIHW) is running a couple of ‘pitch to peers’ sessions in December.