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Kristian Pollock

Professor of Medical Sociology, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

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Biography

Kristian is Professor of Medical Sociology at the Nottingham Centre for the Advancement of Research into Supportive, Palliative and End of Life Care (NCARE). She studied social anthropology at the universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge, and completed a PGCHE at Keele University in 2007. She has carried qualitative research in a wide range of health service settings, often involving sensitive topics and vulnerable populations and has experience of undertaking observation, interviews, focus groups, and case studies as well as mixed methods research.

Expertise Summary

  • Qualitative research methods
  • Research ethics
  • Lay and professional understanding of health and illness
  • Communication in medical consultations
  • Advance care planning
  • End of life care
  • Dementia
  • Death and dying

Teaching Summary

Kristian's main teaching involvement is in supervision of Masters and PhD students.

Taught sessions include

  • Critical Perspectives on end of life care
  • Qualitative Research Methods
  • Contemporary Debates in Healthcare
  • Interprofessional Learning: End of Life Care
  • Research ethics

Research Summary

Kristian's research interests centre on the study of death in society, including public attitudes towards, and patient experience of, death and dying, place of death, Advance Care Planning, medicines… read more

Recent Publications

  • BOWERS, BEN, POLLOCK, KRISTIAN and BARCLAY, STEPHEN, 2022. Unwelcome memento mori or best clinical practice? Community end of life anticipatory medication prescribing practice: A mixed methods observational study PALLIATIVE MEDICINE. 36(1), 95-104
  • CAMERON, AMELIA, POLLOCK, KRISTIAN, WILSON, ELEANOR, BURFORD, JOHN, ENGLAND, GARY and FREEMAN, SARAH, 2022. A scoping review of end of life decision-making models used in dogs, cats and equids Vet Record. online early, (In Press.)
  • MAJUMBER, MEGHA, BOWERS, BEN, POLLOCK, KRISTIAN, GOODMAN, CLAIRE, KUHN, ISLA and BARCLAY, STEPHEN, 2022. End of life care in UK care homes - controlled drugs: systematic review and narrative synthesis BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care. Epub ahead of print,
  • POLLOCK, KRISTIAN, BULLLI, FRANCESCO, CASWELL, GLENYS, KOBA-ČEH, HANA, LUNDER, URSKA, MICCINESI, GUIDO, SEYMOUR, JANE, TOCCAFONDI, ALESSANDRO, VAN DELDEN, HANS, ZWAKMAN, MARIEKE, RIETJENS, JUDITH, VAN DER HEIDE, AGNES and KARS, MARIJKE, 2022. Patient and family caregiver perspectives of Advance Care Planning: Qualitative findings from the ACTION cluster randomised control trial of an adapted Respecting Choices intervention Mortality. (In Press.)

Current Research

Kristian's research interests centre on the study of death in society, including public attitudes towards, and patient experience of, death and dying, place of death, Advance Care Planning, medicines management and dementia. She is also interested in communication between patients and health professionals in medical consultations.

Recent research studies include

Exploring death and dying in the UK: patient, family and public perspectives (EDDUK)

Managing Medications for patients with serious illness being cared for and dying at home

Thinking ahead about medical treatments in advanced illness with patients and families from ethnically diverse backgrounds

School of Health Sciences

B236, Medical School
Queen's Medical Centre
Nottingham, NG7 2HA

telephone: +44 (0)115 95 15559
email: mhssupport@nottingham.ac.uk