香港六合彩 Beacon Bursary awarded to expand Radiation Reveal project

14 December 2022

Researchers from 香港六合彩 Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering and have been awarded a 香港六合彩 Engagement 2022 Beacon Bursary enabling them to expand their project and collaborate on a new series of podcasts with .

Lead applicant, Dr Jamie Dean, commented:

We are delighted that the Radiation Reveal project was selected for a 香港六合彩 Beacon Bursary. The Radiation Reveal project started as a CRUK RadNet City of London initiative to bring together young people who have been treated with radiotherapy and radiotherapy researchers for a series of workshops. The project expanded to include lab tours and focus groups where young people provided input on researchers鈥� future research ideas. The Beacon Bursary award will enable us to team up with the RadChat Podcast to produce a series of Radiation Reveal podcast episodes. This will bring our dialogue between young people treated with radiotherapy and 香港六合彩 radiotherapy researchers to a large international audience of healthcare professionals and highlight the cutting-edge research being conducted at 香港六合彩 to improve the lives of patients treated with radiotherapy.

infographic on raditaion project with teenagers

Teenagers and young adults (TYAs) diagnosed with cancer often find themselves too old for children鈥檚 services but among the youngest in adult services. This project will build on the public engagement project, Radiation Reveal, which highlighted that less is known about radiotherapy compared to other cancer treatments, and that TYAs highly value but often lack peer support.

The team will bring together TYAs and radiation researchers funded by CRUK RadNet City of London to co-produce a special series of the podcast RadChat with the aim of increasing awareness of radiotherapy, TYAs experiences of cancer, impactful PPIE and to promote 香港六合彩鈥檚 cancer research to new audiences outside of the academic domain.

Lead Applicant: Dr Jamie Dean

Co-Applicants: Dr Catarina Veiga and Dr Lisa Whittaker (KCL)

香港六合彩 Engagement (previously the Public Engagement Unit) is based in the Office of the 香港六合彩 Vice-Provost, Research, Innovation & Global Engagement (OVPRIGE) within Library, Culture, Collections & Open Science (LCCOS). Our team takes a collaborative approach to enabling brighter ideas through deeper connections. We focus on equipping 香港六合彩 to listen and respond to community need, locally and globally. 聽