{"id":231,"date":"2025-03-19T09:10:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T09:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/nhli\/?p=231"},"modified":"2025-03-21T15:23:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T15:23:19","slug":"stitching-stories-and-crafting-connections-the-women-and-asthma-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/nhli\/2025\/03\/19\/stitching-stories-and-crafting-connections-the-women-and-asthma-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Stitching Stories and Crafting Connections: The Women and Asthma Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><em>Written by Dara O\u2019Hare<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-232 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/nhli\/files\/2025\/03\/Group-crafting-2-opt-002.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Picture the scene. A library in rural Lancashire. Beads, baubles and braids. Sequins, stamps and silks. Children drawing and colouring in. Women sewing and sharing stories.\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s perhaps not the archetypal work setting for an Imperial lab team but on International Women\u2019s Day (Saturday 8 March) that\u2019s where you would have found <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.imperial.ac.uk\/c.lloyd\">Professor Clare Lloyd<\/a>, director of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/lloydlab.co.uk\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Lloyd Lab<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and members of her team \u2013 research manager <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.imperial.ac.uk\/l.yates\">Dr Laura Yates<\/a> and PhD student Minerva Garcia Martin \u2013 deep in conversation with local women and children, while stitching and sewing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Lloyd Lab explores the interactions between resident lung cells and infiltrating inflammatory cells in order to establish how these interactions influence the development and resolution of pulmonary inflammation during a range of different lung diseases, including asthma.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As part of that work, and thanks to a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wellcome.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wellcome<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> public engagement award, the researchers have teamed up with three craft organisations &#8211; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/craftspace.co.uk\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Craftspace<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Birmingham, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/stitchesintime.org.uk\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stitches in Time<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Tower Hamlets (London) and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sewing-rooms.co.uk\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Sewing Rooms<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Skelmersdale (Lancashire) \u2013 to explore the topic of women and asthma through the media of craft and storytelling.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" class=\"wp-image-233 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/nhli\/files\/2025\/03\/Express-collage-1.png\" alt=\"\" data-wp-editing=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The project, entitled Women and Asthma, has been in train for two years under the expert stewardship of <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.imperial.ac.uk\/e.dowell\">Ellen Dowell<\/a>, creative producer of public engagement at Imperial\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/nhli\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">National Heart and Lung Institute<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. However, International Women\u2019s Day marked the fitting start to a year-long series of public events during which the researchers, women with lived experience of asthma, asthma nurses and other healthcare professionals will come together to swap stories \u2013 about living with asthma or researching effective treatments for it \u2013 while edging and embellishing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Using craft as a common language to share stories and experiences is providing a rich seam of material about asthma and deepening understanding and awareness of the relationship between women and asthma.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Part of the inspiration for the project came from the 2022 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asthmaandlung.org.uk\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Asthma + Lung UK<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> report <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asthmaandlung.org.uk\/research-health-professionals\/research-influencing\/asthma-worse-women\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Asthma is Worse for Women<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> which highlights that some three million women in the UK \u2013 more than the population of Birmingham \u2013 have asthma. That asthma is more common and more severe in women than men, and more likely to result in hospitalisation or death. And that many asthmatic women experience changes to their symptoms during times of hormonal change (periods, pregnancy, menopause, hormone treatment).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"wp-image-234 size-large aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/nhli\/files\/2025\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-09-at-20.26.48-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The next workshop will take place in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ideastore.co.uk\/visit-us\/idea-store-watney-market\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Idea Store, Watney Market<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (London) on World Health Day (Monday 7 April), followed by one in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/visitbirmingham.com\/listing\/the-library-of-birmingham\/132155101\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Library of Birmingham<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on 3 May, ahead of World Asthma Day on 6 May. The culmination of these events will be the creation of a large-scale art installation \u2013 incorporating items made by the women at the workshops \u2013 which will visit Tower Hamlets, Birmingham and Skelmersdale in September this year on key dates linked to International Day of Clean Air, World Lung Day and the NHS\u2019s Ask About Asthma campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Speaking about the Skelmersdale event, Professor Lloyd said:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2018As lab-based researchers we\u2019re keen to develop better treatments for asthma and face-to-face interactions put everything in context. And seeing my students who are creative scientifically creating beautiful crafts has been eye-opening and fun. Overall, it is rewarding for us as researchers but also for the public, who have an opportunity to share their stories.\u2019<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">PhD student Minerva Garcia Marin added:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2018I study cell interactions in asthma and through this project I have interacted with lived-experience participants, learning directly from them about their experiences with asthma. It\u2019s inspiring to see how sharing their stories has empowered them and sheds light on how isolating this condition can be. For some, discussing asthma is deeply personal and challenging, but engaging in conversations through crafting has helped create a comfortable space in which to share their stories. Crafting is a great tool that has also allowed me to share details of my PhD project and the research we are doing.\u2019<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" class=\"size-full wp-image-237 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/nhli\/files\/2025\/03\/Express-collage-2.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Follow the project on Instagram at @womenandasthma or at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womenandasthma.net\">www.womenandasthma.net<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Dara O\u2019Hare &nbsp; Picture the scene. A library in rural Lancashire. Beads, baubles and braids. Sequins, stamps and silks. Children drawing and colouring in. 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