IOELC Resources
Project Resources
Introducing Namaste Care
This animation and companion booklet introduces how to plan and deliver Namaste Care in nursing home contexts, based on an NIHR HTA funded study led from IOELC.
Namaste VideoRecent Seminars/Webinars
Decolonising Palliative Care: Learning from Research Beyond the Global West
A recording of an online webinar held on 10th January 2024, with presentations from Dr Diah Martina, Huiju Liang, Dr Silva Dakessian Sailian, and Dr Yakubu Salifu, followed by a Q&A session.
Clinical Research in Palliative and Terminal Care Can Be Practice Changing!
A recording of a hybrid webinar held on the 15th November 2022, presented by Professor Johan Menten, University Hospital Leuven, Belgium
Paediatric Palliative Care
A recording of a webinar held on the 9th March 2022, with four of our former PhD students presenting their research work in the field of paediatric palliative care.
COVID-19 and Palliative Care
A recording of a webinar held on 9th July 2020, highlighting 3 presentations on the subject of COVID-19 within the context of palliative care
IOELC Event Contributions
Sheila Payne talks about implementing palliative care in nursing homes
Sheila Payne was interviewed in summer 2021 by the Veteran’s Nursing Home Association in Taiwan to share learning on improving palliative care in nursing homes from the PACE study
Archived Material
Decolonising Palliative Care: Learning from Research Beyond the Global West
An online webinar held on 10th January 2024, with presentations from Dr Diah Martina, Huiju Liang, Dr Silva Dakessian Sailian, and Dr Yakubu Salifu, followed by a Q&A session. The video recording can be found under Recent Seminars/Webinars towards the top of this page.
Three of the presentations, by Drs Diah Martina, Silva Dakessian Sailian, and Yakubu Salifu can be found in the following PDF document.
Download a combination of three of the presentations given during the event: Decolonising Palliative Care Presentations
How can we learn from the death of a care home resident?
This short video demonstrates how to lead a discussion with care home staff (called reflective debriefing), focusing on what went well and what can be improved in end of life care. With the high number of deaths of older people in care homes due to COVID19, this is a timely way to support better end of life care. The video was adapted by Sharon Kaasalainen from McMaster’s University, Canada, from learning materials produced by the International Observatory on End of Life Care as part of the PACE project.
Watch the Video: How can we learn from the death of a care home resident?
Prognostic awareness in advanced cancer patients
Dr Martin Loučka, Center for Palliative Care, Prague, Czech Republic
Presented: 11/12/19 - Watch Recording: Prognostic awareness in advanced cancer patients
End-of-life care for older people: The challenges and complexities of Australian inpatient settings
Dr Melissa Bloomer, Senior Lecturer at Deakin University, Australia
Presented: 04/07/19 - Download Presentation: Watch Video Recording: IOELC Research Seminar 04/07/19
Assessing hydration status, symptoms and quality of life in advanced cancer at the end of life
Dr Amara Nwosu, Royal Liverpool University Hospital
Presented: 17/07/18 - Watch Video Recording: IOELC Research Seminar 170718
Negotiating end-of-life care between tradition and modern healthcare: Coastal Chinese’ perspective
Assistant Professor Harry Yi-Jui Wu, Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong
Presented: 13/02/18 - Download Presentation: Negotiating end-of-life care between tradition and modern healthcare
Global Challenges? Research in low income settings - Palliative care experiences
Professor Julia Downing, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda and Chief Executive International Children's Palliative Care Network
Presented: 24/10/17 - Watch Video Recording: Global Challenges? Research in low income settings - Palliative care experiences
Addressing equity in palliative care research: the New Zealand experience
Professor Merryn Gott, University of Auckland
Presented: 13/06/17 - Watch Video Recording: Addressing equity in palliative care research: the New Zealand experience
Clinical research in Palliative Care
Professor David Currow, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
Presented: 27/09/16 - Download Presentation: Clinical research in Palliative Care (PDF) Watch Video Recording: Clinical research in Palliative Care (YouTube)
Research: The Cutting Edge. Experiences from palliative care research
Professor Heather Richardson, St Christopher's Hospice, London, UK
Presented: 20/09/16 - Download: Research: The Cutting Edge (PDF) Watch Video Recording: Research: The Cutting Edge (YouTube)
ATLANTES Research Programme: Hunam dignity, advanced illness and palliative care
Professor Carlos Centeno, University of Navarra, Spain
Presented: 19/04/16 - Download: ATLANTES Research Programme
Development of community palliative care in Denmark
Dr Mette Raunkiaer, University of Southern Denmark
Presented: 19/11/15 - Download: Development of community palliative care in Denmark
Knowledge about Palliative Care - mapping, user involvement (and development of practice)
Professor Helle Timm, University of Southern Denmark
Presented: 19/11/15 - Download: Knowledge about Palliative Care - mapping
Remains in the system: Investigating the presence of mourning online
Selina Ellis Grey, Lancaster University
Presented: 11/03/15 - Download: Remains in the system
The Metaphor in end of life care Project (MELC)
Dr Veronika Koller, Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK
Presented: 10 April 2014
Creating Palliative Care Programs in Care Homes, Rural and First Nations communities: A Canadian Capacity Development Approach
Professor Mary Lou Kelley, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Presented: 17 October 2013 – Download: Creating Palliative Care Programs in Care Homes
Changing Rituals Around Death
Professor Linda Woodhead, Dept of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, Lancaster University, UK
Presented: 18 July 2013
Shedding light on the importance of gendered therapeutic spaces for health and wellbeing amongst older men
Professor Christine Milligan, Centre for Ageing Research (C4AR), Lancaster University, UK
Presented: 21 February 2013
MORECare: A framework for conducting research in palliative care
Dr Nancy Preston, International Observatory on End of Life Care, Lancaster University, UK
Presented: 13 December 2012 – Download: MORECare
Developing palliative care in primary care internationally: the EAPC Taskforce in primary Palliative Care
Professor Scott Murray MBE, University of Edinburgh, UK
Presented: 25 October 2012 – Download: The EAPC Taskforce in primary Palliative Care
Primary results of a pilot qualitative study conducted upon Swiss bereaved family members after assisted suicide
Dr Claudia Gamondi, Senior consultant at the Palliative Care Department, Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland (IOSI), Bellinzona, Switzerland
Presented: 19 July 2012
Measuring outcomes of hospital-based palliative care in the US
Dr Brian Cassel, Fulbright Scholar - King's College London (2011-2012), London, UK
Presented: 19 April 2012 – Download: Measuring outcomes of hospital-based palliative care in the US
Colliding or Co-operating in End of Life Care - what is happening at the interface between health and social care in UK
Pam Firth, Hon. Lecturer in Health Research, Lancaster University, UK
Presented: 15 December 2011 – Download: Colliding or Co-operating in End of Life Care
Identifying children who may have palliative care needs: a spectrum of children's palliative care
Dr Lynda Brook, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, UK
Presented: 20 October 2011 – Download: A spectrum of children's palliative care
Cultural relativism: implications for palliative and end of life care
Dr Jonathan Koffman, King's College, London, UK
Presented: 30 June 2011 – Download: Cultural relativism: implications for palliative and end of life care
Development of an Australian Palliative Care Volunteer Strategy
Sue Salau, Policy Manager, Palliative Care Victoria, Victoria, Australia
Presented: 14 April 2011 – Download: Development of an Australian Palliative Care Volunteer Strategy
Malignant melancholia: Biomedical discourses of 'surveillance' and 'responsibility' surrounding women 'at risk' of developing breast cancer from the end of the nineteenth to the beginning of the twenty-first century
Dr Tom Lynch, International Observatory on End of Life Care, Lancaster University, UK
Presented: 17 February 2011 – Download: Malignant melancholia
Use of technology for research aimed at improving patient care
Dr Penny Wright, Macmillan Principal Research Fellow, Psychosocial Oncology and Clinical practice research Group, University of Leeds, UK
Presented: 16 December 2010 – Download: Use of technology for research aimed at improving patient care
Preferred Priorities for Care: Preliminary results from an evaluation in the North West of England
Dr Iris Cohen Fineberg, International Observatory on End of Life Care, Lancaster University, UK
Presented: 21 October 2010 – Download:
Improving public awareness of end of life issues among older people in North Lancashire: A peer education approach
Dr Katherine Froggatt, International Observatory on End of Life Care, Lancaster University, UK
Presented: 24 June 2010 – Download: Improving public awareness
Dying behind bars: an evaluation of end of life care in prisons in Cumbria and Lancashire
Dr Mary Turner, International Observatory on End of Life Care, Lancaster University, UK
Presented: 15 April 2010 – Download: Dying behind bars
The experience of pleural mesothelioma in Northern England
Dr Helen Clayson, St Mary's Hospice, Ulverston, Cumbria, UK
Presented: 25 February 2010 – Download: The experience of pleural mesothelioma in Northern England
Reflections on illness and metaphor. 30 years after Susan Sontag
Professor Neil Small, University of Bradford
Presented: 17 December 2009 – Download: Reflections on illness and metaphor
Exploring the barriers to effective communication between senior doctors and patients: Developing the dance of a medical consultation
Dr Susan Salt, Medical Director, Trinity Hospice, Blackpool, UK
Presented: 15 October 2009 – Download: Developing the dance of a medical consultation
Exploring Ageing and Dying: Developing a research programme to explore the end of life care needs of older people with conditions other than cancer
Dr Merryn Gott, University of Sheffield, UK
Presented: 25 June 2009 – Download: