Environments that enable care and flourishing: exploring the personal projects of older adults in Scotland, Kinning, Moving, and Growing in Later Life, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, March 2024, organised by AGENET.
Environmental support for flourishing in older age: exploring the ‘personal projects’ of older adults in Scotland, OPENspace seminar series, University of Edinburgh, March 2024.
Invited speaker at the NHS Education for Scotland Bereavement Annual Conference 2023 ‘The Grief we carry’, held on 28th November. Delivered one hour session on ‘Bereavement experiences of older people’ attended by 200 health and social care professionals from across Scotland and the UK.
‘Environmental support for flourishing in older age: an exploration using a personal projects approach’, Oral paper presentation, British Society of Gerontology Annual conference, University of East Anglia, July 2023.
‘Environmental support for flourishing in older age: an exploration using a personal projects approach’, In-person poster presentation, International Conference of Environmental Psychology, Aarhus University, June 2023.
‘Understanding how the outdoor environment enables older adults to flourish: A focus on ethical and recruitment challenges when undertaking research with older people during the COVID-19 pandemic’, OPENspace seminar series, University of Edinburgh, April 2022.
‘Co-what: so what? – collaborative and co-design approaches to qualitative evidence building’, co-organiser and presenter at Advanced Care Research Centre Launch Satellite Seminar, November 2021. Attended by 80 people working across Scottish Government, third sector, charitable organisations and academia.
‘A silent epidemic of grief: findings from a national survey of bereavement care provision during the COVID-19 pandemic’, Bereavement support now and next – what are we learning from the pandemic? National Bereavement Alliance, May 2021.
‘Bereavement care during the COVID-19 pandemic’, Care towards the end of life: research into practice, University of Cambridge Palliative and End of Life Care Research and Teaching Group dissemination event, February 2021.
Invited speaker at the Bereavement and Loneliness Research and Policy Hub, Campaign to End Loneliness, April 2020. https://www.campaigntoendloneliness.org/blog/coping-with-loneliness-and-bereavement-during-covid/
‘Complicated grief in primary care: a realist review’, Society for Academic Primary Care South East Conference, University of Cambridge, January 2020.
‘The management of complicated grief in primary care and community settings’, Palliative and End of Life Care Research Group meeting, University of Cambridge, September 2019.
The reimagining of relationships in patient and public involvement policy and practice’, Science in Public, Cardiff University, December 2018.
‘Navigating the liminal space of grief: rituals, superstitions and affective practices’, 13th Death, Dying and Disposal conference, University of Central Lancashire, September 2017.
‘Recovering Normal: a qualitative study of grief following bereavement’, British Sociological Association Conference, University of Manchester, April 2017.
‘“I had no choice, I just had to get on with it”: Getting over and persisting in grief’, 5th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional Geographies, University of Edinburgh, June 2015.