Rebecca’s poster
21st of June, 2025
Rebecca won the University of Reading’s Doctoral Researcher Conference 2025 Research Poster Prize (Judges’ Choice), for her poster entitled: The ‘Gold Standard’ birth: How unmet birth expectations shape maternal mental health.
The People’s Choice Award
21st of June, 2025
Susie triumphed at the University of Reading Doctoral College PhD Conference. She entertained the audience with her research presented as a bedtime story. Title: The tale of the Outpatient Hysteroscopy Quest: understanding pain and promising change.
The Bladder Biome Project
21st of June, 2025
We are supporting Live UTI Free with the Bladder biome Project. The study aims to contribute to improving our understanding of recurrent UTI, with the ultimate goal of helping to change the ways in which recurrent UTI is diagnosed and treated.
The Global UTI Project
21st of June, 2025
We are also working with Live UTI Free on The Global UTI Project. The Global UTI Project is the largest scale study of its kind ever to be undertaken with the goal of capturing patient experiences from all over the world, and demonstrating the widespread nature of the problem.
The MicroplateDX Study
21st of June, 2025
We are working with Live UTI Free to ensure the patient perspective is central to research development. Alongside MicroplateDX’s development of a new susceptibility test for UTI, a Patient Advisory Group and focus groups ​​are being established to incorporate the experiences and insights of individuals affected by UTIs.
Our Patient Reported Outcome Measures are now licensed for Research and Commercial Use
21st of June, 2025
We have published two critical Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) for assessing how people living with recurrent Urinary Tract Infection report their symptoms and the impact of their condition on their Quality of Life. To read our publications, visit our recent publication page. These PROMs have been rapidly adopted by research and commercial trials. To license our PROMs please visit our licensing site here.
Grant Win: Developing A Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection Diary
21st of June, 2025
We have won a research grant from the collaborative Health Innovation Partnership between the University of Reading and the Royal Berkshire Hospital. We will be working on developing a diary assessment measure for patients and clinicians to monitor recurrent UTI (rUTI) symptoms and quality of life. Find out more below about the Health Innovation Partnership between the Royal Berkshire Hospital and the University of Reading.
Adam’s poster
21st of June, 2025
At the Behaviour Change and Health Sustainability Conference 2025, Adam Madhani will present research on improving shared decision-making in regional anaesthesia. Using the Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology (BCIO), he identifies key techniques to enhance patient knowledge, confidence and informed choice- laying the groundwork for a targeted intervention yo boost uptake and outcomes.
SEDarc
21st of June, 2025
Adam Madhani and Meg Evans both won fully funded Phd studentships from the South East Doctoral Training Arc. These 3.5 year studentships are highly competitive with international and UK students applying. Adam’s work will focus on developing a Health Psychology- informed intervention to improve anesthesia decision making before surgery. Meg’s will develop a sexual well being intervention for people living with recurrent Urinary Tract Infection.