Education & communication skills

LOROS aims to provide the best evidence-based education and training for our own staff and for other professionals who provide care for their patients.

Current projects

  • Managing Medicines for patients with serious illness being cared for at home; The aim of this study is to explore how terminally ill patients, and their family care givers and the health professionals who support them, engage collaboratively in managing medicines prescribed for relief of symptoms at the end of life. View the flyer for more details about the research.

  • Continuing Bonds: Exploring the meaning and legacy of death through past and contemporary practice;Alt text commenced in April 2016, and will look at how archaeology can inform our current attitudes to death and dying; whether the diverse methods of dealing with death and the dead uncovered by archaeologists can bring a different perspective and contribute towards a necessary re-examination of today's taboo status of death as an inevitable human experience, helping to shape policy and practice. Visit the Continuing Bonds project website for more information
    View the latest flyer for Continuing Bonds project May 2016 Dr Lindsey Buster, Post-Doctoral Research Assistant and archaeologist at the University of Bradford, is a researcher on the project. She has recently written a blog entitled ‘Let’s Talk Death: living well because dying matters’. Read the blog here

  • Conversations about resuscitation: Photo of Professor Faull with a patientThe views of senior hospice nurses about conversations with patients and families around DNA-CPR (do not attempt cardio pulmonary resuscitation) decisions and completing the documentation.

Completed projects