Your Rheum was set up in October 2016 and is a group for people in the UK aged 11-24 years who have a diagnosed rheumatic condition. Your Rheum provides an easy way for young people to understand and get involved in rheumatology research that is relevant to them. Check out the Your Rheum animation to understand what we do.
Here are some of the activities we have been involved in;
Esen, E., Gnanenthiran, S., Lunt, L. et al. The Your Rheum story: involvement of young people in rheumatology research. BMC Rheumatol 6, 43 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41927-022-00273-z: &
Shoop-Worrall SJW, Cresswell K, Bolger I, Dillon B, Hyrich KL, Geifman N; Members of the CLUSTER consortium. Nothing about us without us: involving patient collaborators for machine learning applications in rheumatology Ann Rheum Dis. 2021 Jul 5:annrheumdis-2021-220454 10.1136/annrheumdis-2021-220454
You must be:
There are three ways you can be involved:
Meetings in 2023
Summer break – we’ll be back soon
Contact us:
The priority of the group is for work funded through BANNAR or for researchers who are members of BANNAR. However, there is capacity to work with researchers outside of BANNAR and so we encourage all researchers to get in touch with us to discuss their project further.
The Group can help you with all stages of your research project from generating research questions, inputting into grant application, through to evaluating the impact of your research. The work of the Group is classed as Public and Patient Involvement (PPI). Complete a researcher application form here.
Email: your.rheum@manchester.ac.uk
Website: www.yourrheum.org
Twitter: @YourRheum
Instagram: your_rhuem
Facebook members group page: Your Rheum
YouTube: Your Rheum channel
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