Researchers at Cardiff University would like to recruit people aged 18 and over, from a South Asian background and living with type 1 diabetes to take part in their study. They hope to explore the experiences of the South Asian voice in the diagnosis and management of type 1, to inform future research and clinical practices. 

An international group of diabetes researchers and clinicians have established a global database of new cases of diabetes in patients with Covid-19 – called the CoviDiab Registry Project. It comes off the back of initial observations that Covid-19 could potentially trigger diabetes and the urgent need to know more.  

Researchers at Ulster University would like to recruit women with type 1 or type 2 #diabetes, who are experiencing/have experienced menopause or perimenopause symptoms to take part. They hope to identify the gap in knowledge about how peri/menopause can affect diabetes, and vice versa. Findings from the study could help inform future services and support for women. 

Researchers at Hertfordshire University would like to recruit people aged 18+ living with type 1 diabetes, who have been diagnosed in the last five years and have been using continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) and glucose technologies for at least six months.

The study seeks to understand how people newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes adapt to the use of blood sugar monitoring devices, and whether this impacts on their relationship to food and eating behaviours. 

Taking part will involve attending an online interview which will take up to one hour.  

Researchers at the University of Brighton would like to hold a focus group with people aged 16-24 who have been living with type 1 diabetes during their years at secondary school/high school and who find diabetes difficult or frustrating. The study aims to find ways to help support young adults with diabetes.

Researchers at Kings College London would like to recruit people 18 years and older, who have:

• been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes for more than 6 months
• access to the internet and a smartphone/laptop/tablet/PC
• experience of diabetes-related distress

to take part in a study. Diabetes distress is what some people feel when they're overwhelmed with the relentlessness of diabetes.

Researchers at Liverpool John Moores University would like to recruit people:

•    aged 18+
•    who are living with type 2 diabetes and a heart condition (such as angina, heart attack or coronary heart disease)
•    who speak the English language and can give informed consent to take part in a study.

Researchers at a pharmaceutical company would like to recruit parental caregivers of children (between the ages of 8 and 21) recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (2 years ago or less). 

This is to take part in a study focused on understanding how caregiving may impact different aspects of their everyday lives, including productivity, any emotional and psychological impacts, and overall health-related quality of life.  

 Researchers at the University of Surrey would like to recruit people aged 14-18 with type 1 diabetes to take part in a study that will help increase self-compassion and teach people skills and techniques to be more kind and caring to themselves.

Previous research has shown that self-compassionate acts and being kinder to ourselves can increase our mental and physical wellbeing. 

Researchers at the University of Roehampton would like to recruit people aged 18-65 years, with prediabetes (HbA1c between 39-46mmol/mol) and without prediabetes, to participate in a study that aims to investigate the effects of seaweed extracts and a Mediterranean diet on health and blood sugar levels.

The study has three arms: