Glasgow End of Life Studies Group

Our research

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World Map of Palliative Care Development

Our Wellcome Trust funded 'World Map' of Palliative care aims to develop indicators and map the global development of provision

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Dying in the Margins

Our ESRC funded 3-year project examines experiences of home dying for people living in poverty in the UK in both urban (Glasgow) and rural (Dumfries & Galloway) locations.

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COVID-19

Staff and students in the End of Life Studies Group are continuing to meet by Zoom and other means, and in particular have been writing a series of COVID-19 related articles on our blog.

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Total Pain

Dame Cicely Saunders defined the concept of total pain as the suffering that encompasses all of a person's physical, psychological, social, spiritual, and practical struggles.

Assisted Dying

As a research group, we are involved in undertaking various research projects into assisted dying.

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Death Doulas

Death Doulas provide a range of practical, emotional, and social support for people nearing the end of life, including their families.”

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The Mitori Project

End of life care in the UK and Japan – intersections in culture, practice and policy

'Policy' in the Palliative Care Context

There is a growing recognition that effective policies, laws, strategies and plans are required to promote and develop general approaches to the end of life and specifically, palliative care.

Death Café

At a Death Cafe people, often strangers, gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss death.

Global Interventions at the End of Life

Our Wellcome Trust funded analysis of interventions aims to promote improvement in end of life care worldwide

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Reading & Writing Death and Dying

This is an interdisciplinary collaboration between anthropologist Dr Naomi Richards and creative writers Dr Elizabeth Reeder and PhD Candidate Amy Shea.

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Community Palliative Care in Kerala, India

This project will be the first to develop an evaluation model that can be used to assess the quality and outcomes of community palliative care in Kerala.

Imminence of Death in Hospitals

How can clinicians and services identify people who might benefit from palliative care?

Cicely Saunders and her Legacy

Professor David Clark is an eminent biographer of Cicely Saunders, founder of the modern hospice movement

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Scottish Atlas of Palliative Care

This important document maps levels of palliative care coverage in Scotland

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