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
Brown, M. Prof	Health transitions and young adults with complex learning disabilities	Burdett Trust for Nursing, 2016-2020
Brown, M. Prof	Relationship and Sexuality Education programmes for children and young people with learning disabilities in special schools	Burdett Trust for Nursing 2020 -2021
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
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	PAtient Self-care uSIng eHealth In chronic Heart Failure PASSION-HF	INTERREG NWE 2018 - 2021
Kerr, H. Dr	‘Registered nurses’ perspectives of the impact of completing the Specialist Practice in Oncology qualification on patient care and clinical practice: a qualitative study.'	Burdett Trust for Nursing
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
McGaughey, J. Dr	Co-design of a patient and family-initiated escalation of care intervention to detect and refer patient deterioration on acute hospital wards	Health Services Executive, Programme for Health Service Improvement 2018-2021
McGaughey, J. Dr	Development of a patient and family-initiated escalation of care scheme to detect and refer patient deterioration in hospital	HSE, PhD Scholars Programme in Health - March 2017 HSC R&D Opportunity-Led Programme, December 2018
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
Noble, H. Dr	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. Dr	Developing guidance to deliver an arts-based intervention in a haemodialysis unit	ESRC 2020 - 2021
Noble, H. Dr	Development of The Starman play	Arts Council NI Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Noble, H. Dr	Renal Arts Group Administrator	NI Kidney Research Fund 2019 - 2021
Noble, H. Dr	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. Dr	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
Quinn, B. Dr	Assessment of the ‘Managing Advanced Cancer Pain Together’ (MACPT) tool to facilitate communication on total cancer pain between advanced cancer patients and their healthcare professionals	Amgen Inc. 2018 - 2020
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	Living with a kidney transplant: An IPA study.	BRS/KCUK 2020-2021
Reid, J. Prof	Delivery of psychoeducational intervention to patients with advanced cancer and their carer	PHA NI 2021-2022
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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