News & Updates

Our latest news is summarised below.

“Research Usually Sits on Shelves, Through the dramatisation It Was Shared” CICADA Stories

Cicada stories was created to examine how citizenship, chronic illness, and ethnicity interact to shape experiences, based on the...

Mixed mental arts to support people with long term fatigue

The CICADA study is working with the team at Tough Cookie, to consider the feasibility of supporting the mental health of people living...

CICADA Stories: using theatre for impact

CICADA Stories, performed at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London, on September 20th 2022, was an opportunity for us to share some of our study...

Sharing methods and findings of the CICADA study

Several members of the CICADA team were invited to present at this years BSA Medical Sociology conference at Lancaster University. The...

Manchester charity Europia are helping CICADA to capture pandemic voices from E.European communities

The CICADA study has been actively engaging with charities and organisations across the UK to capture the pandemic experiences of people...

CICADA Stories, at Bloomsbury theatre

The CICADA research study based at University College London, has been listening to the pandemic stories of people from across the...

The practical challenges of intersectional research: Prof. Rivas lectures in Krakow

Carol was an invited speaker at the Intersectionality, Research, and Action International Summer School (IRAISS) in mid-July. This...

Co-Create workshops

We are starting our co create workshops - there is still space to join us on 15th July. We are using creative co-design methods to work...

The CICADA-ME survey

More than 4000 people took part in our firstwave survey and more than 3000 in the second wave. Preliminary results suggest the importance...

British Sociological Association, Medical Sociology conference 2022

This years BSA medical sociology conference will take place at Lancaster University. Three members of our team will be presenting...

Research workshops

We have completed our Phase I workshops and met with 108 study participants to understand how things have changed. The CICADA study is...

CICADA Protocol paper is published in JMIR

Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic to Improve the Health, Social Care, and Well-being of Minoritized Ethnic Groups With Chronic...