Our latest publication has dropped! 📜
A paper summarising the creation of the Superbugs website and the underlying co-production process has just been published in Frontiers in Microbiology
We are proud to announce that our second Superbugs paper — after the report about our successful pop-up shop in Research For All 2022 — is now available online.
Tyrrell JM, Hatch S, Flanagan M, Owen K, Proctor Y, Stone C, Fricker G, Hullis K and Eberl M (2024) “Superbugs online: co-production of an educational website to increase public understanding of the microbial world in, on, and around us.” Front. Microbiol. 15:1340350. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1340350
This paper forms part of the special research topic “The Role of Education in Raising Awareness Towards Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)”.
We are grateful for financial support from the Wellcome Trust ISSF3 scheme, Cardiff University‘s Systems Immunity Research Institute, Cardiff University School of Medicine, the British Society for Immunology, and An Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta (COGG).
But our biggest thanks go to all the people without whom this project would not have been possible, especially for the insight, help, and support by numerous teachers and their pupils giving advice and feedback before and after the launch of Superbugs.online - most of all our co-production partners Clare Bowen (St Albans Roman Catholic High School, Pontypool), Meirion Callaghan (Deri View Primary School, Abergavenny), Alison Hughes (Trowbridge Primary School, Rumney), Connor Llewellyn (St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School, Barry), Gemma Mabbett (Pennard Primary School, Swansea), James Morgan (Birchgrove Primary, Swansea), Matthew Oliver (Bryn Bach Primary School, Tredegar), Simon Phillips (Idris Davies School 3-18, Abertysswg), Jenny Richards (Glais Primary School, Swansea), Rachel Stephens (West Monmouth School, Torfaen), and Samantha Taylor (Pontypridd High School, Pontypridd).
We would also like to thank Christie Conlon, Ruth Lewis, Erin Nash, and Mike Roberts for help with communication and design, Karen Edwards for facilitating contacts with schools across Wales, Gail Thomas for advice on data safety, Laine Skinner for creating a multilingual Wordle, Jordan Mathias for contributions in the early stages of the project, the Welsh Government’s Hwb team and the Central South Consortium for their endorsement, and the people behind the helpdesks of Squarespace, Weglot and Knight Lab for their quick and constructive advice every time we needed it.
Finally, we thank the Welsh translation unit at Cardiff University and Tudur Jones for the translation into Welsh, Morag Maclean and everyone at Stòrlann Nàiseanta na Gàidhlig for the translation into Gaelic, and Jack O’Driscoll, Máire McCafferty, Jenny Mannion, and Cathal Ormond for the translation into Irish.
Our biggest shout-out goes to the thousands of visitors of our website and to everyone interested in learning more about the microbial world in, on, and around us.
We developed these pages for you and hope you find them useful and inspiring.
