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Our Team

We believe that people with lived knowledge of pain are the real experts in this area. To truly understand their experiences, we have to understand their stories.

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Using innovative methods, our lab research focuses on understanding how children and young people, and their families, make sense of and experience pain (their stories).

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We believe that understanding these stories can help to improve the lives for those experiencing long-term pain in the future

Pain Stories Lab Members

Members of the Pain Stories Lab conduct research on the experiences of children and young people, and their families, living with pain.

This is a photograph of Dr Abbie Jordan

Dr Abbie Jordan

Dr Abbie Jordan's work focuses on using innovative research methods to understand stories that children, young people and their families tell about their thoughts and experiences of living with pain. Abbie’s work focuses particularly on issues around identity, parenting, diagnostic uncertainty and how we communicate about pain to others.

This is a photograph of Dr Abbie Jones

Dr Abbie Jones

Dr Abbie Jones completed her PhD with the Lab in 2021, and is now a lecturer in the Health Psychology team at Bath.

Abbie’s research looks at adolescent social development in the context of chronic pain. She is particularly interested in identity development. Her research mostly uses qualitative methods, and she enjoys exploring different methods such as story completion and longitudinal qualitative work.

This is a photograph of Sharon Bateman

Sharon Bateman

Sharon Bateman is a paediatric psychologist coming to the end of a PhD that is researching chronic pain and mental health symptoms in adolescents.

Her research explores the challenges that co-occurring chronic pain and mental health symptoms may have on adolescents and how these specific challenges affect adolescent functioning

This is a photograph of Ryan Parsons

Ryan Parsons

Ryan Parsons is currently a PhD student conducting research on paediatric pain.

His work investigates how adolescents with chronic pain experience and make sense of living with pain, with a novel focus on positivity and flourishing. 

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Tess Rugg

Tess Rugg is a PhD student in the Pain Stories Lab.

She aims to understand and assess identity formation in the context of young people living with chronic pain. Tess is keen on using novel and creative methods of data collection, such as Story Completion and Photo-Elicitation, to generate data to understand how young people with chronic pain think about their identity, particularly in relation to pain. 

A girl sits on a blue beanbag chair. She is wearing dark blue dungarees and a yellow top. She is reading a light blue book, and a red bird is flying out of the pages.

Bath associations

The Pain Stories Lab is part of the Bath Centre for Pain Research and works closely with the Bath Centre for Pain Services.

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