Katie Flanagan

Thank you to the staff & patients for your support - especially @andkho.bsky.social and Dr Clare Finnegan

Final interviews complete 🎉 It’s been a privilege to speak with staff and patients at @queenscourthospice.bsky.social about the potential of VR. Now it’s time to dive into the data and prepare for the implementation study! #VirtualReality #PalliativeCare

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Well done Becky!

PCRS Prize winner Becky Evans reflects on why palliative care spoke to her during her medical degree & how she plans to pursue research alongside her clinical work.
🔗 Discover her story and explore how PCRS supports budding researchers: pcrs.org.uk/2025/07/28/u...
Follow @drbeckyevans.bsky.social

Special thanks to @amaranwosu.bsky.social and @sarah-stan.bsky.social for their support

That’s a wrap on recruitment at Marie Curie Liverpool! I’ve spoken with staff & patients about whether VR could be used in a hospice 🥽 Huge thanks to the staff for their support through such uncertainty, and to the patients who shared their time & stories #PalliativeCare #VirtualReality

Allied health professionals – are you thinking about getting involved in research? Paramedic & researcher Kieran Potts shares practical tips to help you get started
📖 Read his blog here: pcrs.org.uk/blog/
Follow @kieranpotts.bsky.social
#AlliedHealth #ResearchCareer #PalliativeCare

Five canonical findings from 30 years of psychological experimentation in virtual reality - Nature Human Behaviour This Review presents five canonical psychological research findings in virtual reality (VR) over the past three decades. These findings have been consistently replicated and are useful for both researchers and users of VR.

This Review by Bailenson et al presents five canonical psychological research findings in VR over the past three decades. These findings have been consistently replicated, and are useful for both researchers and users of VR.

Five things to do in virtual reality – and five to avoid A review of experimental research reveals how VR is best used and why it’s struggled to become a megahit with consumers.

Learning to fly a plane? Practicing speaking before a large crowd? #VirtualReality is great. Attending mundane meetings, answering email? Not so much. Check out the findings from a review of 30 years of #VR research led by @stanfordvr.bsky.social
news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

Congratulations to @andreabruun.bsky.social for winning the @eapcvzw.bsky.social Early Career Researcher Award #EAPC2025 - so well deserved! Brilliant to hear about your career development from PhD @mariecurieeolc.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk Research Dept and current work on learning disabilities

Wow this is *HUGE*
How many delegates- 1,000?
From all over the world 🌎 ⭐️

#EAPC2025

We are delighted to publish the abstracts for #EAPC2025 which starts on Thursday 29th May. They are freely available now, ready to help you select the sessions you attend and posters to view. journals.sagepub.com/toc/pmja/39/... #hpm #hapc #palliativecare #research

🎉 Meet Joodi Mourhli, winner of the #PCRS Early Career Poster Prize at the 2025 Palliative Care Congress!

She shares what fuels her research into culturally sensitive end-of-life care and the team that inspires her.

🔗 Read more: pcrs.org.uk/2025/05/22/s...
#PalliativeCare #ECR

We're delighted to launch the new @griefcentrebris.bsky.social today! The Bristol Centre for Grief Research and Engagement will unite our research, education, and policy and public engagement on the topics of grief, death and loss.

www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/ap...

@leseldawson.bsky.social

Well done to @katieflanagan.bsky.social for presenting a great paper in the @mariecurieuk.bsky.social Hospice Liverpool journal club about the role of #VirtualReality in palliative care for hospice patients.

#hapc
#palliativecare
#medsky
#vr
@nicolawhite.bsky.social
@sarah-stan.bsky.social

North Yorkshire hospices face redundancies and cuts, bosses warn A deepening financial crisis is affecting North Yorkshire's hospices, councillors are told.

While the government’s funding boost is a welcome first step, many hospices are facing a tough financial situation, like those in North Yorkshire.

Hospices must be part of local funding decisions for long term sustainability.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thanks Bex! I'd love an introduction, I'll send you my email directly.

Very happy to be starting my #virtualreality research in palliative care at Marie Curie Hospice Liverpool. The team have given me the warmest welcome 🙂

This image features a promotional graphic for a guest blog titled "Productivity, Focus, and Parenthood" by Emily Spencer, a PhD student at University College London. The visual depicts a stylised scene with Emily sitting at a cluttered desk, surrounded by books and papers labelled "PHD." She is writing in a notebook while glancing at a laptop screen. In the foreground, a baby is reaching towards a guitar, symbolising the balance between academic pursuits and parenting. Emily Spencer's photo is placed in the top right corner, affirming her authorship.

🕒🍼 Finding focus can be tough, especially with a little one in tow. See how Emily Spencer @ejmspencer.bsky.social tackles productivity and parenthood in her must-read blog. #TimeManagement #ParentingTips

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A great blog from @sgriffiths-6.bsky.social! And so important to recognise this seemingly unavoidable facet of working as a researcher in this field.

Such a crucial issue, so good to see it on the cover of @thelancet.bsky.social 👏
Well done @libbysallnow.bsky.social and co-authors!

Woohoo! All those hours of reading endless transcripts have paid off

Excellent start to 2025 with our latest PriDem paper being accepted for publication! Looking forward to seeing our qualitative process evaluation of a novel model of dementia care in press very soon 🎉

Dementia breakthrough as world-first study finds simple habits can improve sleep EXCLUSIVE: More than 300 people with dementia and their carers took part in a study, trialling techniques to help them sleep better.

A clinical trial successfully helped people with dementia and their family carers to improve their sleep, tackling what is a common and distressing issue, in a new study led by Prof Penny Rapaport @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social www.express.co.uk/life-style/h...

@thelancet.bsky.social
Comment out today:

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Social and structural determinants of dying well and the complex systems they exist in

#palliativecare #socialdeterminantsofhealth

A pleasure to attend the 'Policy recommendations for palliative dementia care' event at the House of Lords on Wednesday, bringing together politicians, policymakers, stakeholders and researchers to encourage a change in the way we care for those with dementia

Our letter in the Times today about the #AssistedDying debate in the Commons and ordinary dying.

📢Practitioners working with GP surgeries (GPs, nurses, dementia advisors, care co-ordinators....).Do you have conversations with people with #dementia and carers about their care/support needs?

Contact me if you'd like to participate in this project! £20 voucher given. More info 👇

Please share!

‘Must watch’ viewing tomorrow night at 8.30pm.

The reality of the challenges facing charitable #hospices and the patients and families they support. Kudos to @hospiceuk.bsky.social & @danielhewittitv.bsky.social & #St.Giles and others for this important insight.

www.itv.com/watch/news/h...