We’re delighted to announce that our Research Grants Scheme will be funded in partnership and is now open to applications. Leeds Hospitals Charity and Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals Charity will be part funding the scheme with dedicated funding pots. Applications close 21 July

#Researcher during a day, #trailrunner in the evening! 👌🏻😃 What a fulfilling and enriching day at #UlsterPhDFest with a chance to present some reflections from undertaking #realistreview. Followed up by a challenging and wonderful #trailrunning in #MourneMountains as part of the #Hill&Dale series!

Our #realistreview protocol has finally been published! 🥳 @traceymcconnell.bsky.social bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/6...

My Grief My Way: delighted to present a poster on our bereavement support resource at #eapc2025. Our website content is free to use by all, with further material coming soon! mygriefmyway.co.uk Funded by @mariecurieuk.bsky.social

I sought eye contact and smiled at EVERY person in the park yesterday on my run. Just a big kind smile even during speed intervals! And 99% smiled back, some appeared surprised they were not 'invisible' and looked genuinely happy to smile back! #running #sharehapinness

My boys❤️💔 Last big walk.

As you can see this #PhD Researcher is very enthusiastic about her project!! 🤣 Thanks to @pccongress.bsky.social for introducing 'Work in Progress' category this year! @ulsteruni.bsky.social @traceymcconnell.bsky.social #academicsky #palliativecare #EOL #PCC2025

Looking forward to this plenary! It's good to reflect and talk about the #assisteddying irrespective of our position about the issue. @pccongress.bsky.social #PCC2025

Nursing Times award for Clinical Research Nursing finally arrived in Belfast! Great award for a wonderful team of Research Nurses at Marie Curie! Delighted to be part of it! Thanks @sarah-stan.bsky.social for bring it over for #PCC2025! @nursingtimes.bsky.social @mariecurieeolc.bsky.social

Coming up in the #Homelessness series at King's (all online; all bookable now): Palliative and end of life care and homelessness Caroline Shulman; Briony Hudson. 25 March 2025 10:00 to 11:00 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/palli...

This paper is a helpful reminder of importance of consistent and scheduled #writing! I've recently started to write everyday but the paper offers tips how to make it more structured and effective🤩 Thanks @johnmacartney.bsky.social and Rachel Perry! #academicsky nilq.qub.ac.uk/index.php/ni...

It is truly difficult to comprehend that we are witnessing this dystopian situation. As a Polish woman with family trauma of WWII and then the communist regime, I'm watching in disbelief. www.bmj.com/content/388/...

This is an important new report from @cancerresearchuk.org. In more deprived areas there are higher levels of cancer incidence, higher prevalence of cancer risk factors, less engagement with screening programmes, and worse diagnosis and survival outcomes. www.cancerresearchuk.org/sites/defaul...

Thrilled to showcase this stunning commissioned painting, translating my research into visual art, at the @mariecurieeolc.bsky.social conference last week! It highlights vital role of Healthcare Assistants in delivering hospice care at home. mariecurie.ivent-pro.com/events/resea... #MCResearch2025

Are there any projects combining my two passions—running and palliative care? E.g. research into running for coping with dying, bereavement, etc. Would love to learn more! #running #trailrunning #palliativecare #EOLcare #Health #palliative #publichealth #hospice #AcademicSky #hospicesky

After few days #running in the snow it's a shock coming back to a grey Belfast. I miss the snow and polish forests! #trailrunning

We’re excited to announce the launch of new research priorities for palliative and end of life care! These have been created in a project with the JLA and other partner organisations, including co-funders the ESRC and @mndassoc.bsky.social, and guided by people affected by a life limiting illness.

The new priority setting work for palliative and end of life care research led by @mariecurieuk.bsky.social @jameslindalliance.bsky.social

It is International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Gagandeep Kang’s research on enteric infections has contributed to the rotavirus vaccine rollout in #India, protecting millions of children and shaping a healthier future. for all. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

Such interesting insights from the session on the NI School Bereavement Programme on embedding grief education on the school curriculum #MCResearch2025 - young people are so much more open to talk about grief than adults seem to be www.mariecurie.org.uk/research-and...

Join our Research into Practice Conference 2025, 11 - 14 February Hey BlueSky! If you haven't yet registered for our free, online conference, do so now mariecurie.ivent-pro.com/events/resea... We'll be joined by prominent presenters across palliative and end of life care research.

"I had to come back three times. I believed that it was possible" Watching Jasmin Paris finishing Barkley marathons last year always brings tears to my eyes. (100miles and 60,000ft elevation gain) What an incredible achievement! #inspiration #hero #running #trailrunning youtu.be/YLX5b2qYlaY?...

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

🧵 Insightful report from @employmentstudies.bsky.social for the Commission for #HealthierWorkingLives, which we support, on workplace health and disability in Europe. The report finds that, compared to 14 other European countries, the UK is one of the worst performers 👇

Want a career in applied health & social care research? Come join us @hscwru.bsky.social @annetteboaz.bsky.social and apply for this exciting Research Associate role! Project focused on #homecare #socialcare #workforce. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/103567-...

How amazing to have you all coming to Belfast!🥳 I'm delighted to be attending and presenting some of my work relating to healthcare assistants providing hospice care at home. #palliativecare #hapc

Beautiful writing... one to read again, slowly. 'Consolation, of course, is never permanent, always needs to be reinforced and reimagined if it is to keep sustaining and centering us, for in each of us there is a pendulum that keeps swinging between hope and despair.' #palliativecare

I needed to get to the city centre to get a book from a library. After quick calculations it turned out the quickest way was to run there and back. 14.5km done but I got some weird looks from a librarian! 😅 Now, back to my research governance application... #running #balance #busyschedule

After passing my first PhD examinations at Ulster University, I needed some #trailtherapy with my trail running group!! 😅😅😅 Muddy forest in the dark, hilly trails, just focussing on next step ahead... feeling #relaxed and #happy and #fulfilled!!! ##trailrunning #running

Trail tour with TrailRunNI in Mournes today! Followed by hot coffee and homemade cake from the boot of the car 🥰🤩 I'm so lucky to have found this wonderful group of people! Ps. I really need to work on leg strenght for the uphills - it was tough🥵 #trailrunning #running

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

PsyPal is the first ever European grant to fund clinical research into #psychedelic-assisted therapy. Learn more about our project by visiting our website: palliativeprojects.eu/psypal/ or connect with us on LinkedIn! www.linkedin.com/company/psyp...

Professor @soniadalkin.bsky.social summing up a fabulous three days of provocation & productive debate during ‘The Future of Evaluation in Health and Social Care’ Conference @northumbriaideas.bsky.social 🤩 Great speakers, and really innovative thinking - best conference I’ve attended in ages!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Why changing health inequalities is difficult? Because researchers/scientists, policymakers and politicians make it difficult - Mike Kelly at #evaluation conference @northumbriaideas.bsky.social

Ray Pawson on the vital role of carrots in the Future of Evaluation. They help you see into the 'black box'. #evaluation.

Intervention changes the context in which it's implemented. @carlrmay.bsky.social #evaluation conference. @northumbriaideas.bsky.social

'An intervention is never just a thing-in-itself. Complex interventions have many moving parts, but they also have many different effects. These effects shape important aspects of the contexts in which the intervention is being evaluated" @carlrmay.bsky.social @northumbriaideas.bsky.social

Delighted to present a poster about my #realist PhD study at the #evaluation conference. It helped to open many conversations and allowed me to developed my thinking and clarify uncertainties. Thank you @northumbriaideas.bsky.social for such a thought provoking event!

A huge congratulations to all the authors behind our successful Group A poster submissions today! This year, we received an unprecedented number of abstracts—an incredible testament to the quality and relevance of the work being shared.

📅 Join the Commission for #HealthierWorkingLives, which we support, and @employmentstudies.bsky.social for this webinar on 28 January. Leading labour market and workplace experts from the UK and beyond will explore practical ways to improve workforce health ⬇️ https://buff.ly/40y0ym8

It was a privilage to listen to the farewell talk by Professor Ray Pawson about future of #Realist #Evaluation at @northumbriauni.bsky.social Such interesting insights and points for reflections relevant to my research. See slides and alt text. www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

Beutiful start of the day on the journey from Belfast to Newcastle for #Realist #Evaluation Symposium. Both taken within 30min of each other🤩

On 15th January, we are holding a policy event in Westminster to explore what it would take to successfully move care “from hospital to home” and lessons from other health systems. View programme: https://buff.ly/4fY1KEV Can't make it in person? Sign up for the livestream: https://buff.ly/40w8rrl

Death is a natural, human part of life. To truly improve end-of-life and geriatric care, we need to rethink our relationship with death - restoring a perspective that existed before medicalization reshaped our culture. An important feature article by @lucyselman.bsky.social in @bmj.com

❗2-year postdoc at the University of York❗ I am looking for a postdoc for my ERC-funded project “The many faces of prejudice: the “what”, the “why”, and the “how” of inferences we make from membership in social groups”. To learn more and apply (by Jan 13): jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese... #psychjobs

'researchers have found that magpies – who cover their dome-shaped nests with branches from thorny bushes to deter egg-thieving predators such as crows – have started ripping out anti-bird spikes to use in their nests.' Magpies rework James C. Scott's Weapons of the Weak... 1/2

Recent research found that heavy social media use has little impact on mental health, with no strong links to depression, anxiety, or stress. Social media’s effects might even be slightly positive in some cases. #MentalHealth #SocialMedia #Research #Depression #Anxiety

A recent study links higher ultraprocessed food consumption to a 42% increased risk of depressive symptoms, suggesting potential health risks. While causation is unclear, reducing ultraprocessed foods may support mental health… #MentalHealth #UltraprocessedFoods #Depression #HealthRisks #WellBeing

Ultraprocessed foods – like cookies, chips, frozen meals and fast food – may contribute to cognitive decline