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.

Current & Recently Completed Projects

Principal Investigator	Project Title	Funders & Dates
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
Brazil, K. Prof	Scaling up the Family Carer Decision Support Intervention: A transnational effectiveness-implementation evaluation	EU Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND) 2019-2021
Brazil, K. Prof	Scaling up the Family Carer Decision Support Intervention: A multi- site implementation evaluation	Alzheimer’s Society UK 2018-2021
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
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
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
Brown, M. Prof	LGBTQ+ health within undergraduate nursing and midwifery pre-registration programmes in the UK and Ireland	Burdett Trust for Nursing 2020 -2021
Brown, M. Prof	LGBTQ+ health needs within nursing and midwifery pre -registration programmes	June 2020-2021
Carter, G. Dr	Building a Partnership and Action Plan to Support the Identified Priority Needs of Informal Dementia Carers in Vietnam	DfE GCRF July 2020 - Nov 2021
Carter, G. Dr	The development of a Dementia Carer Research Consortium across Vietnam enabling the development and implementation of supports for those affected by dementia	ESRC IAA Jan 2022 – December 2022
Fitzsimons, D. Prof	HEart faiLure carer support Programme: A feasibility study of the HELP intervention for carers	Northern Ireland Chest Heart and Stroke
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
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
Galway, K. Dr	Implementing change to prevent patient deaths by suicide: a knowledge exchange secondment	ESCR Impact Acceleration Secondment (Colette Ramsey)
Gormley, K. Prof	Recording Nursing Care through the PACE Framework: Research Evaluation of an Innovative Approach to Person-centred Care Planning	HSC NI Research and Development Division 2020 - 2022
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
Hill, L. Dr	Practice and Education of Nurses caring for patients with heart failure through-out Europe- the PRESENT study	Heart Failure Association of the ESC 2021-2022
Hill, L. Dr	How can caregivers of patients with heart failure and an implantable cardiac device (ICD) be more effectively involved in deactivation discussions and decision-making?	DfE 2021
Hill, L. Dr	PAtient Self-care uSIng eHealth In chronic Heart Failure PASSION-HF	INTERREG NWE May 2018 - December 2023
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
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
Mitchell, G. Dr	Co-Development of a Digital Intervention to Reduce Restrictive Practices in Care Homes	Burdett Trust for Nursing 2020-2022
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
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
Mitchell, G. Dr	Co-Creation of a Digital Serious Game to Promote Public & Health Professional Awareness about Pancreatic Cancer	Northern Ireland Pancreatic Cancer (NIPANC) June 2022 – May 2023
Noble, H. Prof	International MaPping Exercise of Arts Interventions in ReNal UniTs: the PAINT project	Northern Ireland Kidney Research Fund October 2022 – August 2023
Noble, H. Prof	Development of a psychosocial intervention to support informal caregivers of people with end-stage kidney disease receiving haemodialysis	Northern Ireland Kidney Research Fund
Noble, H. Prof	Exploration of experience and development of a psychosocial intervention for caregivers of patients with end-stage kidney disease managed without dialysis	Marie Curie 2020 - 2023
Noble, H. Prof	The Compassionate Mindful Resilience (CMR) programme for people with kidney disease and their carers	Kidney Care UK November 2021 – May 2023
Prue, G. Dr	PRECISE: PancREatic Cancer: Individualised Supervised Exercise: a feasibility study	Pancreatic Cancer UK. 2019 – 2021
Prue, G. Dr	Programme of research focussing on exercise in advanced prostate cancer	Movember and HSC R&D Office
Reid, J. Prof	Place of death Northern Ireland – past trends, future analysis	Marie Curie
Reid, J. Prof	Non-Cancer Palliative Care	Marie Curie
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
Reid, J. Prof	COVID-19: impact on the renal community	NIKRF 2020-2021
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
Santin, O. Dr	Rapid development of a digital COVID Support Module for Cancer Carers	HSC R&D Feb 2021-Feb 2022
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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