Research conversations: What influences how we experience pain?

About the event

We know that psychological factors such as thoughts and feelings, and social factors including personal relationships and lifestyle, can affect chronic pain alongside biological factors (e.g. swollen joints, injury). What we don’t know is which of these factors are most important, or how they combine to affect people’s experience of pain.

Join Dr Sharon Grieve and Joanne Lloyd as they discuss the Consortium to Research Individual, Interpersonal and Social Influences in Pain (CRIISP) project.

To find out what is important, the CRIISP research will focus on how people think and feel about pain, how relationships with others affect their pain, and consider the wider social and environmental influences on pain.

During our research conversation we will be sharing how the CRIISP researchers are guided by the experiences of people living with pain at every stage of the project and the impact of this so far.

This project is supported by a joint and equal investment from UKRI and the charity Versus Arthritis.

Our speakers

Dr Sharon Grieve is a Research Fellow based at the University of the West of England, Bristol. She supports a public involvement network for a large chronic pain research project called CRIISP.

Joanne Lloyd started off as a public contributor in CRIISP and went on to co-chair a work development group. Following on from this she is now the vice-chair of the Consortium Public Advisory Group.

Get involved

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