On this episode, we're incredibly excited to have Martin Stevens, a Research Fellow at the Aberdeen Centre for Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Health at the University of Aberdeen, join us.

Hear us discuss his focus on patient and public involvement in research, why this is important, and what he is currently working on to improve patient outcomes.

We talk about the iPRePaRe Study, which explores how patient research partner engagement is implemented in research, and his involvement in the QUICK study, which aims to help quantify chronic pain's impact on engagement in paid work by creating a means to measure it.

These are vitally important topics and ones that regularly feature on the show when we share people's lived experiences with chronic illness, so we are grateful to get a researcher's insight into the ongoing work around these burdens of our disease(s).

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