Sue Ryder Care Centre for the Study of Supportive, Palliative and End of Life Care
SRCC
The Centre is partly supported by a generous philanthropic donation from a private Trust. The Centre, led by Professors
Jane Seymour and
Karen Cox, has a special collaborative relationship with the charity
Sue Ryder, and is pleased to be able to share the name of this key provider of palliative and neurological care.
The increased number of patients living with chronic and terminal illness intensifies the need to provide excellent supportive and palliative care, primarily for older people and often for extended periods of time prior to, as well as throughout, the final stages of illness.
The SRCC aims to carry out research which will lead to greater understanding of the patient experience of chronic, debilitating and life-threatening illness and improvement in professional delivery of health care. The research focus of the group reaches beyond cancer into traditionally under-researched areas e.g. older people, stroke and dementia. Its remit extends along the continuum of prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up and care of the dying and the translation of research findings into service development initiatives.
Studentships in palliative and end of life care
We are pleased to announce that the moneys raised during Life Cycle event helped us to create attractive PhD scholarships. Three succesful students were appointed
Additional interdisciplinary studentship "Young carers caring for a parent with palliative care needs" is being offered. Please find more details here.
Annual Public Lecture
10th May 2012
'Maintaining dignity in later life: older people's experiences of supportive care'
Senior Lecturer in Social Gerontology from Bristol University- Liz Lloyd will presenting an interesting and discussion provoking topic during our Annual Public Lecture.
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Service user involvment in research
A briefing paper from the Palliative Care Advisory Group has been published in February 2012.
This briefing paper describes the activities of the Palliative Care Studies Advisory Group based in Sheffield, U.K. The group aims to offer feedback and advice to research projects with a palliative care and/or endof- life care focus.
Access this publication
The RCN Research Society Akinsanya Award 2011
The RCN Research Society Akinsanya Award 2011 for doctoral scholarship in nursing in association with Anglia Ruskin University and the Journal of Research in Nursing.
We are extremely pleased to congratulate Dr Munikumar Ramasamy Venkatasalu whose PhD thesis has been selected as the winner of the prestigious RCN Research Society Akinsanya Award 2011.
The appraised thesis has been donated to the Steinberg Collection. This was set up in 1974 and contains a selection of influential nursing theses and dissertations from the 1950s to the present day.
Read more about Dr Venkatasalu’s PhD project
IMPACT campaign
The Nottingham Life Cycle was a prelude to a wider charitable IMPACT campaign launched in October 2011.
To learn more about SRCC and IMPACT:
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View our newsletter (PDF)
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Please see our IMPACT leaflet (PDF)
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To listen to Professor Jane Seymour talking about living wills on BBC4 Woman's hour click here
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Watch a movie about our centre and IMPACT
Meetings and events
Upcoming meetings:
Please see the full list of meetings for your information about the previous and forthcoming events.
Contact us
Sue Ryder Care Centre for the Study of Supportive, Palliative and End of Life Care
School of Nursing, Midwifery & Physiotherapy
Division of Nursing
University of Nottingham
Queen's Medical Centre
Nottingham
NG7 2HA
Email: ruth.parry@nottingham.ac.uk