Building Critical Mass for Palliative Care Research through Collaborative Support, Exchange and Challenge
We are delighted to be one of only 8 UKRI fund grant recipients in England in partnership with the IMPACCT research group at the University of Technology Sydney (Australia) for our bid, "Building Critical Mass for Palliative Care Research through Collaborative Support, Exchange and Challenge".
This UKRI fund aims to support the scaling up of existing strategically significant, internationally collaborative research relationships between English universities and research organisations outside the UK.
The award funds a programme of joint "Creating Connections" conferences, workshops and masterclasses, and an academic exchange programme (professions, senior lecturers, post-doctoral researchers, PhD students) to foster collaborative links and joint working.
‘The success of the partnership between IMPACCT and the Wolfson Palliative Care Centre has been driven by share value for research which has real impact, involving our teams from early career to senior researchers, and allowing enough time for the exchange visits to build trust and mull over small ideas which can then grow into bigger ones’.
- Professor Meera Agar
Director of the Centre for Improving Palliative, Aged and Chronic Care through Clinical Research and Translation (IMPACCT), University of Technology, Sydney.
'This has been a fantastic opportunity to grow our collaboration over a number of key research areas (e.g., breathlessness, delirium, older age palliative care, and outcomes...) and support the development of our early career researchers and postgraduate students...'
- Professor Miriam Johnson
Associate Director of the Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre (WPCRC), Hull York Medical School, University of Hull.
Impact
Running between 2019 and 2025, this exchange programme has enabled the following to date:
Visits
26 visits between the WPCRC and IMPACCT groups (6 professors; 5 lecturers/senior lecturers/readers; 7 post-doctoral researchers; 2 postgraduate students)
PhD Students
4 PhD students co-supervised between the two institutions
Publications
22 peer reviewed papers with co-authors from both institutions
Grants
9 successful grant applications (total value £1,163,242)
Joint conferences
4 joint conferences which attracted a total of 820 delegates
Masterclasses
6 masterclasses/seminars which attracted a total of 230 delegates