Your voice in diabetes research (for real).
The YAP is a long-term PPI partnership — active since 2014 — shaping D1 Now through intervention development, pilot work, and now the effectiveness trial. If you’re 18–25 and living with Type 1 Diabetes, you can help steer what happens next.
What is the Young Adult Panel?
The Young Adult Panel (YAP) is a group of young adults living with Type 1 Diabetes who collaborate with the D1 Now research team. It’s not a one-off survey or focus group — it’s a long-term partnership where members contribute across the full research journey: shaping studies, improving materials, interpreting findings, and helping share results in ways that land with real people.
Mentors support new members
Our panel has been active since 2014, and experienced members often step up as mentors. They support new members so you can contribute in a way that feels comfortable and meaningful.
Long-term collaboration
YAP members help keep the work grounded in lived experience — not assumptions. That includes language, design, priorities, and what feels realistic in clinic life.
Why join the YAP?
Joining the YAP means becoming part of the study team. You’ll go behind the scenes and help drive change in how diabetes care is designed and delivered for young adults.
Make a real difference
Your input helps shape research and resources that can improve care and support.
Be heard
Keep young adults’ voices at the centre — in decisions, language, and priorities.
Build skills
Co-design, communication, research insight, advocacy — skills that travel with you.
You’ll have opportunities to impact real lives, develop new skills, connect with peers, boost your CV, represent the study at events (like conferences), and potentially contribute to publications.
What’s involved if you join?
You don’t have to do everything — pick the areas you’re most interested in and where you can make the biggest impact.
Shape research
Bring your ideas and priorities into study design and delivery.
Make materials matter
Help ensure info sheets, consent forms, and questionnaires are clear and usable.
Get hands-on with data
Support interpretation of findings — what matters, what’s surprising, what it means.
Be a voice online
Help shape website content, social posts, videos, and infographics.
Collaborate + learn
Work alongside young adults, clinicians, and researchers — with mentoring built in.
Be recognised
Opportunities to contribute to dissemination and represent the project.
If you want the detailed breakdown (with examples), you can open the full “What’s involved” list below.
A 10+ year partnership (not a straight line)
The YAP has been with D1 Now from early intervention development, through pilot work, and into the current effectiveness trial. This journey is iterative — learning, adapting, and improving over time.
YAP begins as a long-term PPI group to keep the project grounded in young adult experience.
Co-create intervention ideas, tools, and language that reflect real clinic life and real life outside clinic.
Test what works in practice. Improve materials and delivery based on what actually happens.
Support the effectiveness trial — including participant-facing resources and how results are shared.
Keep improving: new members join, mentors support, and the work evolves with what young adults need now.
Click “Join the YAP” and choose what type of involvement suits you.
What members say
A few snapshots of the vibe — honest, supportive, and impact-focused.
Meet the YAP
Click a member card to see a short bio. (You can decide later whether this uses real names/photos, first names only, or anonymised profiles.)
When you share the full YAP member list + preferred display style (photos vs initials, names vs first names), we can generate the full grid consistently.
Stay in the loop
Get updates on new resources, opportunities to join sessions, and what the YAP is working on next.
Short and occasional — no spam.
