Projects
The School has been in the forefront of developing palliative care research in Ireland (www.aiihpc.ie). The aim of this research programme is to illuminate the experiences of cancer survivors and patients requiring palliative care, their informal carers and their professional carer’s, with a view to improving the experience of both survivorship and palliation. These insights will be used to provide a sound evidence base for care and to develop a research continuum from bench to bedside through the development of co-ordinated research projects.
| Principal Investigator | Project Title | Funders and Dates |
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Reid, J. Prof & McConnell, T. Dr & |
Integrated Palliative Care in Oncology: a Realist Synthesis |
NIHR HS&DR Researcher Led
Jun 2023 – Nov 2025 |
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McConnell, T, Dr |
Mapping exercise: supportive, palliative and end-of-life care services for people with heart failure in Northern Ireland |
Marie Curie Donor: Magill Family Charitable Trust
Jan 2025 – Aug 2025 |
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McConnell, T, Dr |
Developing detailed 'how to' guidance for integrated palliative care and heart failure services across the NHS: A realist evaluation (PalliatHeartSynthesis II) |
NIHR HS&DR
Jan 2025 – Dec 2027 |
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Hill, L. Dr |
CHOICE-ICD: To Co-develop and pilot trial an eHealth InterventiOn that provides Information to reduce the Concerns of patiEnts living with an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator |
British Heart Foundation April 2023 - April 2026 |
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Brazil, K. Prof |
Supporting decision making on goals of care for community-dwelling patients living with a progressive life-limiting illness |
Marie Curie September 2022 - February 2024 |
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Mitchell, G. Dr |
Co-Creation of a Digital Serious Game to Promote Public & Health Professional Awareness about Pancreatic Cancer
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Northern Ireland Pancreatic Cancer (NIPANC) June 2022 – May 2023 |
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Mitchell, G. Dr |
Optimising Quality of Life for People Living with Heart Failure in Care Homes: Co-Design of a Digital Intervention |
Northern Ireland Chest Heart and Stroke September 2022 – August 2024 |
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Reid, J. Prof |
Cochrane systematic review: Multimodal interventions which aim to alleviate and/or stabilize cachexia (disease-related wasting) for individuals with a chronic illness |
HSC R&D Division, Public Health Agency and NIKRF October 2022 – October 2024 |
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Brown, M. Prof |
Relationship and Sexuality Education programmes for children and young people with learning disabilities in special schools |
Burdett Trust for Nursing 2021 - 2022 |
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Galway, K. Dr |
Common Health Assets: a mixed methods realist evaluation and economic appraisal of how community led organisations impact on the health and wellbeing of people living in deprived areas |
NIHR 2021-2024 |
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McConnell, T. Dr & Reid, J. Prof |
Integrating Palliative Care and Heart Failure: a Realist Synthesis (PalliatHeartSynthesis) |
NIHR HS&DR Researcher Led Jun 2021-Nov 2022 |
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Santin, O. Dr |
Rapid development of a digital COVID Support Module for Cancer Carers |
HSC R&D Feb 2021-Feb 2022 |
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Santin, O. Dr |
Development of a Website to Help Cancer Caregivers Cope- Translating Evidence to Practice |
Knowledge Exchange Award - Public Health Agency HSC R&D Division |
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Reid, J. Prof |
Non-Cancer Palliative Care |
Marie Curie |
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Reid, J. Prof |
Place of death Northern Ireland – past trends, future analysis |
Marie Curie |
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Prue, G. Dr |
Programme of research focussing on exercise in advanced prostate cancer |
Movember and HSC R&D Office |
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Brazil, K. Prof |
Necessary discussions: Advance care planning for nursing homes in a COVID-19 outbreak |
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Health and Social Care Research & Development Division (HSC R&D Division) of the Public Health Agency |
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Brown, M. Prof |
LGBTQ+ health within undergraduate nursing and midwifery pre-registration programmes in the UK and Ireland |
Burdett Trust for Nursing 2020 -2021 |
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Brown, M. Prof |
LGBTQ+ health needs within nursing and midwifery pre -registration programmes |
June 2020-2021 |
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Fitzsimons, D. Prof |
HEart faiLure carer support Programme: A feasibility study of the HELP intervention for carers |
Northern Ireland Chest Heart and Stroke |
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Mitchell, G. Dr |
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Reid, J. Prof |
COVID-19: impact on the renal community |
NIKRF 2020-2021 |
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Santin, O. Dr |
Rapid development, evaluation and implementation of a digital support to improve the management of cancer and mitagate the impact of COVID-19 |
UKRI GCRF/Newton Fund Aug 2020-Feb 2022 |
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Mitchell, G. Dr |
Development of a Digital Intervention to Improve Oral Health for Older People Living with Complex Needs in the Community |
Burdett Trust 2020 -2021 |
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McVeigh, C. Dr |
Mindfulness as a psychosocial intervention for American war VETerans with PALLiative care needs: the PALLVET Study |
QUB COVID-19 Research Enablement Fund |
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Galway, K. Dr |
Implementing change to prevent patient deaths by suicide: a knowledge exchange secondment |
ESCR Impact Acceleration Secondment (Colette Ramsey) |
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Brazil, K. Prof |
Scaling up the Family Carer Decision Support Intervention: A transnational effectiveness-implementation evaluation |
EU Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND) |
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Brazil, K. Prof |
Evaluation of Dyadic Psychoeducational Interventions for people with Advanced Cancer and Informal Caregivers (DIAdIC): An international randomised controlled trial |
Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme EU.3.1.3 2019-2023 |
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Prue, G. Dr |
PRECISE: PancREatic Cancer: Individualised Supervised Exercise: a feasibility study |
Pancreatic Cancer UK. 2019 – 2021 |
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Fitzsimons, D. Prof |
Exploratory study of the prevalence & experience of cardiac cachexia within a population with advanced heart failure in Northern Ireland |
NICHS (Grant number: 2018_08) March 2018 |