Access resources and videos from past events here:
PCRN Webinar Series | Palliative Care and Clinical Research
Speaker | Dr Jeff Hanna, Ulster University
Theme: This webinar explores the opportunities and challenges faced by people working across clinical and academic roles in palliative care.
Resources Available: Video
March 2025
PCRN Webinar Series | Building Successful Collaborations in Palliative Care Research
Speaker | Prof Kevin Brazil, Queens University Belfast
Theme: Join us for insight and tips as we explore key issues in building collaborations, and what makes a successful one.
Resources Available: Video
June 2025
Palliative Care Research Network Series | AIIHPC Palliative Care Research Network Highlights from Queen’s University Belfast
Speaker | Dr Barry Quinn, Dr Ashleen Crowe, Prof Donna Fitzsimons and Dr Julie Doherty
Theme: The purpose of this webinar is to showcase and share learning from local palliative care projects across the island of Ireland, with a focus on key areas including heart failure, dementia care, and spirituality
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Resources Available: Video | Slides
September 2025
PCRN Webinar Series | Technology and Palliative Care
Speakers | Dr Frances Cleary, South Eastern Technological University and Dr Carolyn Blair, Queens University Belfast.
This webinar explores how technology is evolving the area of palliative care, and how we can use it in a way that it maximises impact.
Resources Available: Video
April 2024
PCRN Webinar Series | Funding the Secret to Success
Speakers: Prof Sheila Payne, Lancaster University and Dr Peter May, Kings College London and Trinity College Dublin.
This webinar explores the challenges faced in applying for funding at an EU levels and includes some tips for success!
Resources Available: Video | Slides
June 2024
PCRN Webinar Series | Supporting families when an adult with significant caregiving responsibilities for children is at end of life
Presenters: Prof Cherith Semple, Ulster University and PCRN member and Dr Jeff Hanna, Ulster University, ECRF member.
This webinar explores the experience of Cherith and Jeff who have been delivering and evaluating face-to-face training for health and social care professionals on how best healthcare teams can support families when an adult carer is at end of life with cancer.
PCRN Webinar Series | The Development of an Irish model for Dementia Palliative Care
Presenter: Dr Siobhán Fox, University College Cork
May 2023
PCRN Webinar Series | Journey through a decade – reflecting on the development, implementation and evolution of the Comfort Care Guide e-Resource
Presenters: Dr Gillian Carter & Dr Julie Doherty, Queen’s University Belfast.
Gillian and Julie share their experiences of developing a Care Home nurse training program, designed to support necessary discussions about comfort care with family carers of residents with advanced dementia.
Resources Available: Video | Slide deck
September 2023
ECRF Webinar | AIIHPC Presents: PPI through the Research Cycle – How to Maximise Impact
Chair | Dr Emmy Racine, PPI Ignite@UCC
Introduction: This webinar features a panel discussion with Dr Mary Nevin, DCU, Linda Cooper, Voices4Care, Padraig Cronin, UCC and Jane Clare, AIIHPC
Resources Available: Video
October 2025
ECRF Webinar | Introduction to Quantitative Research in Palliative Care
Speaker | Dr Paul Slater, Ulster University
Introduction: Dr Paul Slater, Senior Lecturer in Statistics, Ulster University joined us to give an overview of the use of quantitative data analysis in palliative care research and how we can include this approach in our research on palliative care.
Resources Available: Video | Slides
October 2025
ECRF Webinar | Journal Article Writing in Palliative Care Research
Speaker | Dr Geraldine Foley, Trinity College Dublin
Introduction: Dr Geraldine Foley, Associate Professor, School of Medicine Trinity College Dublin joins us to explain the how to and necessity of academic publishing as a researcher in palliative care.
Resources Available: Video | Slides
October 2025
ECRF Webinar Series | Palliative Care Needs of People with Intellectual Disabilities
Speaker | Dr Kumaresan Cithambaram, Technological University of the Shannon
Theme: Join the ECRF with Dr Kumaresan Cithambaram as we navigate some research and key challenges in the area of palliative care research for people with intellectual disabilities.
Resources Available: Video
March 2025
ECRF Webinar Series | Leadership in Academia, Health Research, and Health Care: Charting a Personal Journey
Speaker | Prof Mary McCarron, Professor of Ageing & Intellectual Disability, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin
Theme: Join the ECRF hear from Prof Mary McCarron and her insights on leadership across academia, research and health care.
Resources Available: Video
November 2024
ECRF Webinar Series | Introduction to Realist Research Methods
Speaker | Dr Natasha Bradley, University College London.
Join Dr Natasha Bradley and the Early Career Researcher Forum as we tackle what is, and how to implement, realist research methods
Resources Available: Video | Reading List
October 2024
ECRF Webinar Series | Where for a Child’s End-of-Life Care? Shared Decision-Making between Families and Health and Social Care Professionals on the Island of Ireland
Speaker | Dr Ashleen Crowe and Dr Rachel McCauley
Join the ECRF as we catch up with the CO-DECIDE study with Dr Ashleen Crowe and Dr Rachel McCauley to catch up on their research insights, challenges and solutions!
Resources Available: Video | Slides
October 2024
ECRF Webinar Series | Death Literacy – What does it mean for Ireland
Speaker | Stephanie Crawford, Queens University Belfast.
Join the ECRF as they dive into what is Death Literacy, and what studying it can mean for Ireland
Resources Available: Video | Slides
June 2024
ECRF Webinar Series | Palliative Care in Prisons
Speaker | Prof Audrey Roulston, Queens University Belfast.
This webinar explores recent research by Prof Audrey Roulston on the experiences of people in palliative care in prisons.
Resources Available: Video | Slides
April 2024
ECRF Webinar Series | The Role of the Research Nurse in Palliative Care
Theme: Understanding opportunities to advance palliative research as a research nurse
Presented by Kasia Patynowska, Research Nurse, Marie Curie Northern Ireland and Sarah Stanley, Research Nurse, Marie Curie, Liverpool
Resources Available: Video
September 2023
Research Webinar | EU Funding and Palliative Care Research
Speakers | Dr Irene Castellano, the Horizon Europe National Contact Point – Cluster 1, Health Research Board
Theme: Dr Irene Castellano shared how the EU Funding schemes work and how these schemes are relevant to palliative and end of life care research.
Resources Available: Video | Slides
December 2025
Expert Topic Webinar | Integrated Palliative Care in Oncology: key findings and recommendations for policy and practice
Speakers | Prof Joanne Reid and Dr Carolyn Blair, Queens University Belfast and PCRN members
This webinar explores the findings and co-produced recommendations from the integrated palliative care in oncology project (ipcoresearch.co.uk)
Resources Available: Video | Slides
January 2025
Palliative Care Research Network Series | EU Funded Palliative Care Research: Insights from EAPC- partnered projects
Speaker | Dr Cathy Payne, Research and Project Manager, EAPC
Theme: Dr Cathy Payne shared examples and insights from EU-funded projects in which EAPC is involved, and valuable advice for those applying for EU funding.
Resources Available: Video
September 2025
Webinar | Webinar on the New National Adult Palliative Care Policy in the Republic of Ireland
The webinar provided an overview of the new National Adult Palliative Care Policy, its recommendations, planned actions and the next steps to support policy implementation.
Resources Available: Video and slides
Expert Topic Webinar | Healthcare Assistants in Out-of-hours Adult Community Palliative Care
Dr Felicity Hasson, Ulster University, PCRN Member, and Prof Sheila Payne, Lancaster University, AIIHPC expert collaborator, present findings from a mixed-method study exploring the role and contribution of Healthcare Assistants in out-of-hours community palliative care provision.
Resources Available: Video | Slide deck
Webinar | Staying Active with Bone Metastases
People with bone metastases are often unsure if exercise is suitable for them and have questions about how to exercise safely. This webinar, delivered by two registered physiotherapists, discusses the benefits of exercise and provides guidance as to how exercise and physical activity can be incorporated into daily life. Designed for people with bone metastases and their family members. Also suitable for health professionals.
November 2020
Special Interest Group Webinar | Virtual and Augmented Reality and an Insight into its Application in Palliative Care
This webinar will be an introduction to Virtual and Augmented Reality and aims to make this technology, its concepts and practices more accessible for non technical users
Resources Available: Video | Slides
September 2024
Event | Research Active Hospice and Specialist Palliative Care Providers
The aim of this in-person event was to improve care for people with palliative care needs by bringing together hospices and specialist palliative care providers and other relevant stakeholders
Resources Available: Video and other resources
June 2024
Seminar | Designing and Developing Technologies for Palliative Care
People with palliative care needs often speak about their loss of independence, being dependent on other people for simple tasks and their fears for example of falling or being unable to stay at home. Technology offers a unique opportunity to support people with palliative care needs and their families, for example with symptom assessment, self-management, communication, environmental control, mobility and capabilities to support empowerment and autonomy.
Resources Available: Videos | Agenda
June 2019
Seminar | Palliative Care and Disabilities: Impact of legislation to improve quality of life and realise human rights
People with a disability at end of life may need support in making decisions in relation to their care planning. This can include people with dementia, intellectual disability, serious mental illness, neurological conditions or some forms of cancer. Laws are in place in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland to ensure people have a right to support in making these decisions.
Resources Available: Videos | Agenda
June 2018
EAPC Seminar | EAPC Reference Group on Public Health and Palliative Care
A Human Rights based approach for Palliative care: Towards Solutions for Public Health Palliative Care.
Resources Available: Report
November 2023
ECRF Workshop | Building Professional Skills for Palliative Care Research
The aim of this event was to improve skills in key areas in communication, presentations and writing for those at the early stages of their career in palliative care research.
Resources Available: Videos | Slides
May 2025
AIIHPC developed and delivered this workshop in collaboration with University College Cork and Dublin City University PPI Ignite Networks.
This workshop provided a unique opportunity to hear from people with speech, language, and communication difficulties and palliative and health care needs, and researchers, on how you can involve people with communication difficulties in palliative care research.
Resources Available: Agenda | Slide decks
October 2023
Workshop | Information workshop about a career in specialist palliative care
AIIHPC hosted an online information workshop about a career in specialist palliative care.
Resources Available: Video and other resources
November 2023
Workshop | AIIHPC Social Prescribing Workshop
The workshop considered the potential for social prescribing to add value to and enhance the range of supports already provided by hospice and specialist palliative care services
Presenters: Professor David Robinson, Consultant Geriatrician at St James’s Hospital and a senior Clinical Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin
Prof Mary Lynch is Professor and Executive Vice Dean for Research in Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery RCSI, Hon Prof of Healthcare in UWS, UK & Vice Chair for Technology and Palliative Care special interest group in AIIHPC.
Resources Available: Video and other resources
October 2023
For a list of upcoming palliative care events from AIIHPC partner organisations and collaborators on the island of Ireland click here.
