Category: Research

  • Ask About Asthma

    Ask About Asthma

    This week (9-15 September), as many young people are heading back to school after their summer holiday, NHS England is suggesting that teachers, employers and government workers #AskAboutAsthma. The goal is to raise awareness of the experiences of those with asthma, and to suggest techniques to put in place to help children and young people…

  • Going Bananas with R

    Going Bananas with R

    One of my many tasks in preparation for my PhD is to get my head around the statistical computing programming language, R, which will have a considerable part to play in my upcoming research projects. R supports data analysis and data visualisation, with the help of a huge number of extension packages. I have included…

  • Trauma-Informed Approaches: Lessons for Autism Research

    Trauma-Informed Approaches: Lessons for Autism Research

    This article discusses themes of mental health and trauma. I have recently been working through a course about trauma-informed design [1]: the technique of reducing user stress and re-traumatisation through thoughtful experimental and system design. It occurred to me that many of the design choices suggested could apply to making a safe research environment for…