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

Meet with Prof Fliss Murtagh

Fliss is Professor of Palliative Care at Hull York Medical School, and Visiting Professor of Palliative Care at the Cicely Saunders Institute, King’s College London, UK. Fliss' research interests include palliative and end-of-life care needs, outcomes, and resource use, especially for older people and those with non-cancer conditions, and particularly advanced kidney disease.

Fliss has led work to develop a national case-mix-classification for palliative care, to improve understanding and addressing complex needs, and is also experienced in research methods: cohort and cross-sectional surveys, psychometrics, implementation and use of outcomes, especially the Integrated Palliative care Outcome Scale.

Location: Online

Time: 12:00-13:00

Please note that this is a Thursday

Meet Dr Helen Bulbeck

Helen has experienced cancer from both a caregiver and patient perspective. This 360 degree view means that she is well placed to understand the perspectives of patients, caregivers and health care professionals and is skilled in PPI advocacy.

 Her roles in brainstrust, a national brain cancer charity which she founded, and as a consumer representative are as a disseminator of information and the provision of a network and community, so that she can provide advice on achieving effective consumer involvement and creating a voice.  Helen’s key drivers are the patients, their caregivers and healthcare professionals, with whom she interacts daily. Her ethos of 'none of us is as smart as all of us' is a core value for her.

 Elemental to Helen’s work is high performance coaching and shared decision making. When we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves. The coaching relationship enables us to face these challenges, so that we learn how to develop resilience and utilise resources, becoming true co-pilots in our care.

Location: online

Time 12:00-13:00

Please note that this is a Wednesday

Meet with Prof Lucy Selman

Lucy Selman is Professor of Palliative and End of Life Care at the University of Bristol and Founding Director of the Good Grief Festival. She leads the university’s Palliative and End of Life Care Research Group and co-directs the Bristol Centre for Grief Research and Engagement. A social scientist by background, her research has often focussed on neglected and ignored aspects of serious illness and palliative care. Her current programme of research spans clinical research into treatment decision-making and communication, multidisciplinary research on bereavement, and community-based research focussed on tackling health inequities. Her work is characterised by a commitment to societal benefit and public engagement. Lucy was an ESRC Outstanding Policy Impact Prize Finalist (2023) for her research on bereavement during the COVID-19 pandemic, co-led with Dr Emily Harrop. In 2019 she founded the Good Grief Festival, which aims to initiate and sustain an inclusive conversation about death, dying and bereavement. Good Grief embodies a public health approach to end-of-life and bereavement and has now engaged over 35,000 people through its events and courses.

Location: online

Time: 12:00-13:00

Location: online

Time: 12:00-13:00