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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

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 

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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