Pain Stories Lab

See below for details about how to hear more about paediatric pain and have your say (this is not PSL specific!) Pediatric Pain Letter details are below, worth a follow!

Sharing Daily Moments of Chronic Pain Over the summer we ran an activity where we asked those living with chronic or persistent pain to take part in a unique creative opportunity to share a moment from their day. We had a diverse …

Through art, text, and photography, our competition revealed how persistent pain shapes daily life. Congratulations to the winners — and thank you to all who helped turn lived experience into insight. Read more: criisp.uk/2025/10/23/s...
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Do you know that the Pediatric Pain Letter is pubished three times a year? We are always looking for submissions so please do let us know if you have any insights, critiques or fresh insights on pediatric pain. We would love to hear from you! pediatric-pain-letter.org/information-...

The deadline has now been extended for our creative competition for those with lived experience of chronic pain. Share your moment today uniofbath.questionpro.eu/t/AB3uySWZB3...

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The deadline has now been extended for our creative competition for those with lived experience of chronic pain. Share your moment today uniofbath.questionpro.eu/t/AB3uySWZB3...

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Reminder: take part in our creative competition if you have lived experience of chronic pain! We'd really love to hear from you.
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A digital poster with a soft, calming background invites people aged 16 and over with lived experience of chronic or persistent pain to take part in a creative project. The text encourages participants to share a moment from their day in any creative form—such as a photo, collage, drawing, painting, video, poem, song, or short story. Submissions will be showcased as part of the CRIISP research project. A QR code and a link to the submission form are included, along with the deadline: 11:59pm on Monday 25th August 2025. Contact email: painstories@bath.ac.uk.

🎨 Live with chronic pain and 16+?

The CRIISP research project invites you to share a moment from your day, through writing, art, film or photography. Embrace your creativity!

🗓️ Deadline: 25th August
🔗 Submission and more info: uniofbath.questionpro.eu/t/AB3uySWZB3...

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The Pain Toolkit Academy Courses, are ideal for the ‘curious’

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Are you 18-25 years and want to help us with a creative online study, please see below for info. People living with chronic or persistent pain as well as those who do not are welcome to take part. See below link for more details! www.painstorieslab.org/romantic-rel...

Happy Pride Month from the Pain Stories Lab!

Let's continue the celebration of LGBTQIA+ voices in academic research.

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Are you a girl aged 11-18 years looking for an opportunity to gain skills and help to design research about period pain? We are looking for young people to join our team as a research advisor. If this is you or you think that your young person might be interested, email painstories@bath.ac.uk

A Linguistic Analysis of Future Perceptions of Parents of Adolescents With Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and Parents of Pain‐Free Peers Background Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a chronic pain condition which typically affects a body extremity and occurs more frequently from the onset of adolescence. Parents of adolescents...

Check out Amy Parkinson's paper - looking at diffs in words used by parents of adols with CRPS & parents of pain-free adols when talking about their child's future.Parents of adols with CRPS used: more neg emotion & anger words, fewer certainty & friend words
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Image of a young person wearing make up with a title of more than my pain: finding identity. Background of a poster at an exhibition.

Amazing to see Tess Rugg's fabulous images of research entry being displayed at the Viuce Chancellor's Engage awards at the University of Bath yesterday. Amazing work on identity in young adults living with pain. Keep following us for updates on Tess' fab PhD work! @ruggstickles.lol

UK-based healthcare professionals, we need your help designing resources to help children and young people manage musculoskeletal pain and get better use out of primary care.

@campainstudy are running an e-Delphi study: forms.office.com/e/8...
10 minute survey, spread the word!

This is an advertisement of a study with the University of Bath and Pain Stories Lab logos at the top. It reads: 18 to 25? Want to share your perspectives in a creative online study? We're looking for young people who live with chronic pain and those who don't to take part in our study to understand how they think about romantic relationships in the context of chronic pain. Participation will involve: answering some questions about you and completing a short story writing activity. It should take 15 to 20 minutes. To take part or if you have any questions, DM this page or email painstories@bath.ac.uk. This project has been approved by the University of Bath Biomedical Sciences research ethics committee, reference 10209 12369. End date 31/12/2026

Hey Bluesky!

We've got a new study that you might be interested in.

We'd love to hear your perspectives - whether you have relationship experience or not.

Visit painstorieslab.org/romantic-relationships for more info or DM us!

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Hello! We are the Pain Stories Lab, based at the University of Bath. Our lab research focuses on better understanding how children, young people and their families make sense of and experience pain (their stories). By understanding these stories, we can help to improve people's lives.