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UCL Beacon Bursary awarded to expand Radiation Reveal project

14 December 2022

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Researchers from UCL Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering and CRUK RadNet City of London have been awarded a UCL Engagement 2022 Beacon Bursary enabling them to expand their Radiation Reveal project and collaborate on a new series of podcasts with RadChat.

Lead applicant, Dr Jamie Dean, commented:

We are delighted that the Radiation Reveal project was selected for a UCL Beacon Bursary. The Radiation Reveal project started as a CRUK RadNet City of London initiative to bring together young people who have been treated with radiotherapy and radiotherapy researchers for a series of workshops. The project expanded to include lab tours and focus groups where young people provided input on researchers’ future research ideas. The Beacon Bursary award will enable us to team up with the RadChat Podcast to produce a series of Radiation Reveal podcast episodes. This will bring our dialogue between young people treated with radiotherapy and UCL radiotherapy researchers to a large international audience of healthcare professionals and highlight the cutting-edge research being conducted at UCL to improve the lives of patients treated with radiotherapy.

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Teenagers and young adults (TYAs) diagnosed with cancer often find themselves too old for children’s services but among the youngest in adult services. This project will build on the public engagement project, Radiation Reveal, which highlighted that less is known about radiotherapy compared to other cancer treatments, and that TYAs highly value but often lack peer support.

The team will bring together TYAs and radiation researchers funded by CRUK RadNet City of London to co-produce a special series of the podcast RadChat with the aim of increasing awareness of radiotherapy, TYAs experiences of cancer, impactful PPIE and to promote UCL’s cancer research to new audiences outside of the academic domain.

Lead Applicant: Dr Jamie Dean

Co-Applicants: Dr Catarina Veiga and Dr Lisa Whittaker (KCL)

UCL Engagement (previously the Public Engagement Unit) is based in the Office of the UCL Vice-Provost, Research, Innovation & Global Engagement (OVPRIGE) within Library, Culture, Collections & Open Science (LCCOS). Our team takes a collaborative approach to enabling brighter ideas through deeper connections. We focus on equipping UCL to listen and respond to community need, locally and globally.