News and Events

Programme update: 270th participant recruited to the AD HOC trial! 
18 December 2025

Programme update: 100th participant recruited to the AD HOC trial! 
7 October 2025

Presentation at European Respiratory Society (ERS) Congress, Amsterdam, 2025.
28 September 2025

New publication: Randomised controlled trial to measure effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a digital social intervention promoted by primary care clinicians to adults with asthma to improve asthma control: protocol
11 September 2025

Presentation at 11th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), Norrkoping, Sweden 2025
22 July 2025

Presentation at the Society for Academic Primary Care Annual Scientific Meeting (SAPC ASM) Cardiff 2025
9 July 2025

Presentation at Sunbelt 2025, Paris, France 2025
26 June 2025

Programme update: Participants recruitment started!
12 June 2025

Story on LinkedIn about our study: Shining a light on the hidden moderators behind Online Health Communities
2 May 2025

New publication: Moderators’ experiences of safety and effectiveness of patients’ engagement in an asthma online health community: an exploratory, qualitative interview study
25 April 2025

New publication: Understanding the Engagement and Interaction of Superusers and Regular Users in UK Respiratory Online Health Communities: Deep Learning–Based Sentiment Analysis
13 February 2025

Presentation at the at the Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC) Regional Meeting
30 January 2025

Programme update: AD HOC Feasibility study completed 
31 December 2024

New publication: Development of the face-to-face component and recruitment strategy of a primary care digital social intervention for patients with asthma: Qualitative focus groups and interviews with stakeholders
27 September 2024

Presentation at the Primary Care Respiratory Society (PCRS) Respiratory Conference, Telford 2024
20 September 2024

Presentation at the Society for Academic Primary Care Annual Scientific Meeting (SAPC ASM) Bristol 2024
6 July 2024

Presentation at the monthly AUKCAR meeting (London): Moderators’ experiences of safety and effectiveness of patients’ engagement in the ALUK asthma OHC.
19 June 2024

New publication: Web Application to Enable Online Social Interactions in a Parkinson Disease Risk Cohort: Feasibility Study and Social Network Analysis
24 May 2024

Presentation at the monthly AUKCAR meeting (London): Learning from the AD HOC feasibility study.
15 May 2024

Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research Annual Scientific Meeting 2024
23 April 2024

Presentation at the Digital Technology in Primary Care Special Interest Group
7 December 2023

Presentation at the monthly AUKCAR meeting (London): Sentiment of interactions between users in an asthma online community: a machine learning analysis
14 November 2023

New publication: Ethical and Information Governance Considerations for Promoting Digital Social Interventions in Primary Care
27 September 2023

New publication: Asthma patients discussing their experiences with breathing patterns and laryngeal disorders within a UK-based online asthma community
14 August 2023

New publication: survey and feasibility study protocol
11 July 2023

Study update: Focus groups and interviews completed
13 June 2023

Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research Annual Scientific Meeting 2023
23 April 2023

First two GP practices in East London recruited to the Focus Group studies
30 September 2022

NHS Ethics Committee approval
8 September 2022

QMUL Ethics Committee approval
18 August 2022

Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research Annual Scientific Meeting
15 June 2022

Festival of Communities
11 June 2022

First Publication of AD HOC!
15 May 2022

AD HOC 'Involve Award'
30 June 2021