The MELD Project
Dr Konrad Wagstyl & Dr Sophie Adler
The MELD Project
Understanding MRI - part 2
Physics, Imaging Support, qMAP-PD and PLORAS teams
In 2020, members of the Physics, Imaging Support, qMAP-PD and PLORAS teams from across the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (WCHN) came together to deliver a multi-disciplinary public engagement project. Together with volunteers who participate in the Centre’s research, they co-created an animation to explain a core aspect of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Find out more about the project here!
Becoming
Madeleine Moses-Payne
Becoming
A project exploring how teenagers develop their sense of self has been funded by the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging Public Engagement Innovation Fund and a grant from the Arts Council.
Find out more about the project here!
Understanding MRI - part 1
Physics, Imaging Support, qMAP-PD and PLORAS teams
A collaborative project to co-develop an animation with research participants
In 2020, members of the Physics, Imaging Support, qMAP-PD and PLORAS teams from across the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (WCHN) came together to deliver a multi-disciplinary public engagement project. Together with volunteers who participate in the Centre’s research, they co-created an animation to explain a core aspect of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Find out more about the project here!
The Hearing Brain Project
Dr. Emma Holmes
The Hearing Brain Project
In September 2020, Dr. Emma Holmes launched a series of focus group sessions to empower people with hearing difficulties to contribute to her research at the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging at UCL. The project aimed to develop an accessible animation for describing a new set of sounds.
Find out more about the project here!
WCHN Public Engagement Pilot Fund
Dr Michael Moutousiss
This project aimed to start a process to help inform and adapt Dr. Moutousiss’ translational neuroscience research so that it is more relatable to real life and more useful for potential beneficiaries.
The funding supported the creation of an ‘expert by mental health experience’ steering group. The group consisted of key stakeholders such as people with lived experience as carers or past users of psychological therapies, as well as Mental Health Trust User research advisors. Through a series of meetings, the group helped improve the protocol for the research study ‘Mechanisms behind choosing to disengage from psychological therapy’.
Awarded March 2019
My Aphasia Online
Kate Ledingham
Kate’s project aimed to gained the views of stroke survivors on a questionnaire used in the PLORAS group’s research, in order to optimise its administration both in person and online via our website. The measure asked people to self-report their language abilities at different time-points post-stroke. Only participants are able to tell the group how they perceive their language now in comparison with their pre-stroke abilities, and PLORAS will used this information in conjunction with neuroimaging and standardised language assessments to develop predictions of language recovery post-stroke. The PE Grant Scheme enabled Kate to run discussion groups with stroke survivors to gain their perspectives on the measure, to improve its accessibility, ease of use and acceptability to people with and without aphasia.
Awarded March 2019
Externally Funded Projects
The Public Engagement Team also support the awarding and delivery of externally funded projects.