Data research Archives - Patient Experience Research Centre

You and Your Health Data: Results of our Great Exhibition Road Festival activity

11 July 2024

In this blog post, Dr Kirsten Bell, Senior Research Fellow in Anthropology in the Patient Experience Research Centre, Imperial College London, shares the results of our interactive stall ‘You and Your Health Data’.

This year at the Great Exhibition Road Festival, the Patient Experience Research Centre (PERC) hosted a stall called ‘You and Your Health Data’. Moving beyond routine health data collected by the NHS, we were interested in exploring public attitudes towards sharing health data of different types: research data, data from health apps, and internet browsing data. Each of these types of data either directly or indirectly provide valuable insights into people’s health.

Involving parents to inform research into pre-school wheeze

Halle Johnson

24 May 2021

This entry is part [part not set] of 0 in the series Case studies

In conversation with: Dr Hanna Creese, Postdoctoral Research Associate working within the Child Health Unit, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London

What is your research about?

Our research explores pre-school wheeze. A third of preschool-aged (1-5 years) children experience wheeze, making them cough and/or have breathing difficulties. The number of preschool children in the United Kingdom (UK) who suffer or die from wheeze attacks is higher compared to that in other European countries. Recurrent wheeze can last throughout childhood and be an indication that the child will develop asthma.