Monthly Virtual Connect and Share Sessions
Are you an early or mid-career researcher exploring Palliative and End-of-life Care?
Join our monthly virtual Connect & Share sessions, hosted by early-career researchers, Dr Melanie Diggle and Kathy Rogers.
This is a welcoming and inclusive space to exchange ideas, troubleshoot challenges, and build community.
Each month a senior palliative care researcher will join the conversation to share their experience and expertise.
No need to book, simply join online and bring a cuppa!
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January 13th 2026
Facilitator:
Location: Online
Time: 12:00-13:00
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February 10th 2026
Facilitator:
Location: Online
Time: 12:00-13:00
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March 10th 2026
Meet with Prof Matt Maddocks.
Matt is an academic physiotherapist leading a team at the Cicely Saunders Institute undertaking research that advances rehabilitation and palliative care for people with serious illness, through improved management of complex symptoms including breathlessness, fatigue, weakness, and syndromes including cachexia, sarcopenia and frailty.
Location: Online
Time: 12:00-13:00
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April 15th 2026
Meet with Prof Catherine Walshe
Catherine is Professor of Palliative Care at Lancaster University’s International Observatory on End of Life Care. She is also Editor in Chief of the journal Palliative Medicine. A registered nurse, her research interests span a number of areas across palliative care. Current projects focus on ways of better providing palliative care to a range of people including those with dementia, with COPD, or from ethnically diverse communities.
Location: Online
Time: 12:00-13:00
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May 13th 2026
Meet with Prof Fliss Murtagh
Location: Online
Time: 12:00-13:00
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June 11th 2026
Please note that this is a thursday
Location: online
Time 12:00-13:00