Between 12 – 17 July 2026, five eyeYPAG members, three parents and our eyeYPAG facilitator attended the iCAN SUMMIT – a week long meeting for the international Children’s Advisory Network. Children and young people attended from all over the world, including South Africa, Mexico, Spain, France, USA, Poland and England, 72 children and young people […]
On Saturday 20 June eyeYPAG helped co-deliver UCL200 Child Health Science for All. Eyes and Vision Station At our ‘eyes and vision’ station we had two epic researchers with us from the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, sharing their research with children and their families: Dr Ameenat Lola Solebo who shared her Citizen Science project teaching […]
On Sunday, 28 June, eyeYPAG members walked the Eye to Eye route to raise funds for Moorfields Eye Charity. We teamed up with the Moorfields Patient Experience Team who run the Moorfields Youth Forum, and together we raised £1,805 thanks to the generosity of our families and friends who sponsored us!
Blog by Jumera, Last month at EyeYPAG we started our meeting with introductions and sharing our favourite things and least favourite things. It was really nice because some members came back that we had not seen in a while 🙂. We also heard updates from previous research projects. One of these was the CLEARVIEW project, […]
Blog by Jasmine, Our second eyeYPAG meeting of 2026, in March, was a busy one! Group development We started by meeting our visitors for the ‘Shaping research for children with Stargardt’s Disease’ session. We then discussed our future eyeYPAG plans such as: The UCL200 family festival, where we will have an eyes and science table […]
By Eleri Our first meeting of the year was on 17th January 2026, it was a huge success! All about us. . . We started our session by reminding ourselves of our co-production ethos. We always want to make sure everyone feels listened to and understood and this is stated in said ethos. This was […]
In our most recent eyeYPAG meeting on the 15th of November, we started (as usual) with an icebreaker : What are you most excited for this holiday season? The answers varied from the simple joys of M&S festive gingerbread cookies to reminiscing of happy family memories of sledding and snowball fights! Everyone is very excited […]
Our latest meeting was a huge success, many of our members first time seeing each other since the incredible iCAN conference in Montréal, Canada this last July. We stared off the meeting but introducing any new faces and retelling the favourite parts of our summer. This then lead on to a 2 hours workshop from […]
ERDERA Conference, Day 1 😀 Hello, I am Leo, along with my brothers Tyler and Ryker, we are part of the Eye-YPAG group that went to the ERDERA conference in Athens. If there are any words you possibly don’t understand, we have a glossary at the bottom of the page. The words there are the […]
Our April meeting was packed with learning and giving advice. Berni Graham held the second session of our training as interviewers in qualitative research projects. We went over what we had learned in the first session – open and closed questions, body language, and that consent can be withdrawn at any time. Then we talked […]
