Dr Amy Gadoud
Clinical Senior Lecturer in Palliative MedicineResearch Overview
Amy Gadoud is a Senior Lecturer in Palliative Medicine at Lancaster Medical School where she is NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic Training Lead. She works with colleagues in the International Observatory on End of Life Care, Lancaster University. Her main research interest is ensuring equality in access to palliative care using a range of research methods from analysing large datasets to qualitative studies.
In 2024 she was appointed the first national palliative care lead for the NIHR Research Delivery Network.
She works clinically as an Honorary Community Consultant in Palliative Medicine at Trinity Hospice and Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
PhD Supervision Interests
Palliative care especially non malignant disease; mixed methods; routinely collected data especially from primary care e.g. Clinical Practice Research Datalink. Currently has three PhD student (two external funding and one self-funding; one home student and two international) One externally funded international PhD student has completed his PhD within four years Four postgraduate Master’s students who have successfully completed their degrees, one of which received the highest mark in his year. Supervised Clinical Fellow to complete research project and obtain peer review publications.Current supervisor of three postgraduate Master’s students.
NIHR NW RRDN Strategic Funding Award 2025-2026
01/06/2025 → 30/06/2026
Research
NIHR Clinical Lectureship 2023
01/06/2024 → 31/05/2028
Research
NIHR Clinical Lectureship 2022 (Daniel Darbyshire)
01/06/2023 → 31/05/2027
Research
Deathbed Etiquette - Research Palliative and End of Life Care
31/03/2023 → 30/03/2025
Research
A mixed method study to describe the factors associated with palliative care inequalities experienced by cancer patients in the North West, and the impact of these inequalities
01/10/2022 → 02/04/2026
Research
Mapping illness trajectories for people with advanced cancer receiving immunotherapy treatment: a mixed methods study to identify something about need and health service input?
01/04/2022 → 30/06/2026
Research
NIHR Clinical Lectureship 2020 (2nd post, for 2021)
01/03/2022 → 28/02/2026
Research
Developing palliative and end-of-life care research partnerships and capacity in the North West Coast of England
01/01/2022 → 30/06/2023
Research
NIHR Clinical Lectureship 2020
01/06/2021 → 09/11/2026
Research
NIHR School for Primary Care Research (Oxford, Bristol and Cambridge): Establishing research priorities to improve the management of patients with advanced heart failure using the James Lind Alliance method £91,859
01/10/2017 → 01/04/2019
Research
Immunotherapy and Palliative Care Trajectories (IMPACT): a mixed methods study mapping illness trajectories for people with advanced cancer receiving immunotherapy treatment to identify palliative care need.
01/01/1900 → …
Research
Moonshot 2025 - the inaugural NUOC Northwest Conference
Invited talk
Palliative Care Conference
Invited talk
NIHR (External organisation)
Member of external research organisation
Royal College of Physicians (External organisation)
Membership of committee
Death Cafes public engagement in Lancaster medical School
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Death Cafe
Other
Health Education England (External organisation)
Membership of committee
Royal College of Physicians (External organisation)
Membership of committee
Length of stay and palliative care: understanding long-term care facility residents in Europe.
Examination
External Academic Advisor for The Centre for the Art of Dying Well
Consultancy
Local Principal Investigator
Consultancy
Palliative Medicine (Journal)
Publication peer-review
- Interdisciplinary network in culture, health, ethics and society
- International Observatory on End of Life Care
- Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre
- LIRA - Biomedical