Jade Byrne is a professional actor who has toured with Northern Stage Company, Company of Angels and Open Clasp Theatre Company. You’ll also know her from TV roles including those in Casualty, Inspector George Gently, The Dumping Ground and Mount Pleasant. She also has wonky-pancreas. Jade is currently starting a run at the Edinburgh Fringe… Read More »
Recently your soaraway Shoot Up was contacted by Lucy Laycock, one of the founding members of The Pendsey Trust: a UK-based charity dedicated to helping people with type 1 in developing countries. Eager to talk about a good cause and prop up our rather shaky journalistic credentials, Lucy agreed to help us out with an… Read More »
Avid readers of your soaraway Shoot Up forum will recall that we got in touch with Team Type 1 and put some questions about cycling and diabetes to Fabio Calabria – a massively talented professional cyclist and top athlete. He’s won the King of the Mountains Classification in the De Bortoli Tour and the New… Read More »
Tom Craig is a Film Studies Lecturer at Derby University and the writer / producer of upcoming diabetes-inspired horror flick, Argon Green. The second film in the Bitter/Sweet trilogy, the film explores the effects of diabetic retinopathy; a condition Tom was diagnosed with nine years ago. His wife and young son also have Type I… Read More »
Here at ShootUp we believe talking to other pancreatically challenged types comes second only to insulin in the list of how to make life with diabetes less of a pain. Shelley Bennett feels the same. When she was diagnosed aged 19 a nurse told her that no one else her age had diabetes. Thankfully, she discovered this… Read More »
Barbara Young, AKA Baroness Young of Old Scone, joined Diabetes UK in November 2010 and brings to the role a wealth of experience, having worked with the Institute of Health Services Management and having been a King’s Fund International Fellow. She is also a Trustee of the Imperial College Healthcare Charity and was instrumental in establishing… Read More »
Theresa Ikegwuonu is a PhD Research Student at the NMAHP Research Unit of the University of Stirling (The Sunday Times Scottish University of the Year, don’t you know!) who is currently running a study into people’s experiences of having hypos and the impact hypos have on their everyday life. Theresa contacted your soaraway Shoot Up… Read More »
We hear a lot about diabetes research – mice being cured, islets being transplanted – but what about the other side of research. The bit looking at the practical side of how we deal with diabetes? Chloe Redshaw has been playing at being a pancreas for 20 years and is also studying for a Masters… Read More »