My current role as Reader in Palliative Care at the Cicely Saunders Institute, King's College London, encompasses both research and teaching at postgraduate and undergraduate levels.

I have a research portfolio that comprises three areas: designing and evaluation of complex interventions; the relationship between ethnicity, culture and the experience of advanced disease, specifically cancer and multiple sclerosis; the experience and impact of disadvantaged dying and social exclusion. My research on the epidemiology of the advanced disease, needs assessment, social exclusion at the end of life, ethics, social diversity and advanced disease have been published extensively in high impact peer-reviewed journals. I have also made contributions to the development of the specialty and have been published in world-leading textbooks. I have developed an international reputation for my research that has led to invitations to advise government bodies, the WHO, and NGOs, on the development and organisation of end of life care. Until 2018, I was Course Director for the high acclaimed inter-professional MSc, PG Diploma and PG Certificate in Palliative Care at King’s College London

From 2008 until 2013 I was Dean for Postgraduate Teaching in the School of Medicine, King’s College London. I assumed responsibility for the management, governance and quality assurance for over 30 postgraduate programmes in the School of Medicine. I developed highly effective team working and collaboration among the course leads for the MSc programmes, successfully initiated annual reporting, and standardised the marking and progression criteria.

I am currently Chair of Quality for the Education Academy of King’s Health Partners and Education Lead for the Palliative Care Clinical Academic Group with King's Health Partners.

 

Research profile