Paul Chazot won the Fuse Award for Innovative and Creative Communications Initiative at Monday’s ceremony at Durham University for its pioneering project, Unmasking Pain. The project, funded by Arts Council England and ESRC IAA, in partnership with Balbir Singh Dance Company, Leeds Beckett University, Live Well with Pain and Space2, saw artists working alongside people living with pain and pain clinicians to tell a different story about chronic pain management.

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Our Pain Academy will have a stand at the Celebration Showcase Event on the 19th January. If you would like to attend please sign up!

Our Unmasking Pain project, led by Wolfson Fellow Paul Chazot and the Pain Academy, has been nominated for a FUSE Award.

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The Child of the North Report highlighted the challenges and struggles of children in the North, forcing us to think how we can help to better the lives of these children.

Persistent pain is a huge world-wide health challenge. It is the primary reason people in the UK see their GP. The World Health Organisation (WHO) recognised it as a priority disease in 2019. NICE has also recently accepted that current chronic pain medications have limited use, and in fact carry serious safety concerns.

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On 8th December the WRIHW Early Career Researcher’s (ECR) Committee held a networking event for ECRs. 

Join Jonathan Wistow and Luke Telford (University of York) for a fascinating discussion of their new book, Levelling Up the UK Economy: The Need for Transformative Change

Anyone who’s cared for a young child will recognise the signs. They’ve had too little sleep or missed a nap, they’re cranky, tearful, and stroppy, and they can’t or won’t fall sleep. They are “overtired”. But is such a thing really possible – to be more tired than tired?

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