Reposted by Andrea BruunMarieCurieEOLC @mariecurieeolc.bsky.social · 20/11/2025“Getting a PPI blue stamp from a prestigious palliative care organisation like Marie Curie is such an achievement – we are all very proud.” 👇 101
Reposted by Andrea BruunPalliative Care Research Society @pcrscommittee.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Join us for our next event... Communication Challenges and Pathways in Palliative Care 🗓️30 October ⏰11:00 - 13:00 (UK time) 💬Dr Andrea Bruun and Dr Kathryn Radley pcrs.org.uk/events/oct-w... FREE for PCRS Members! 012
Reposted by Andrea BruunGSF @gsfcentre.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Our next speakers are Dr Andrea Bruun & Amanda Cresswell from Kingston University London who are telling delegates about the Victoria & Stuart Project, which explores the development and use of an end-of-life care planning toolkit for people with learning disabilities #InclusiveCare #EndOfLifeCare 121
Andrea Bruun @andreabruun.bsky.social · 04/10/2025I’m doing a session in the next Palliative Care Research Society webinar!💡 Come along to hear me ramble about ‘Exploring communication between hospice staff and patients with a learning disability using Conversation Analysis’ on 30 October from 11.00-13.00 Sign up here👇🏼 pcrs.org.uk/events/oct-w...pcrs.org.ukCommunication Challenges and Pathways in Palliative Care | Palliative Care Research Society 151
Andrea Bruun @andreabruun.bsky.social · 25/09/2025We have arrived in Birmingham. All ready to meet everyone and talk about The Victoria & Stuart Project at the The Gold Standards Framework Annual Conference & Awards Ceremony tomorrow 💫 @victstuproject.bsky.social @gsfcentre.bsky.social 061
Reposted by Andrea BruunIrene Tuffrey-Wijne @tuffrey-wijne.com · 22/09/2025Looking forward to kicking off our new webinar series tomorrow! We’ll show you how to use our toolkit for end of life care planning - and how to get your own free resources! You can still register: shorturl.at/LgOPC 034
Reposted by Andrea Bruuneapcvzw.bsky.social @eapcvzw.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Abstract submission for the EAPC 2026 Congress in Prague is open! Submit your abstract now. Submission Terms & Conditions: eapcnet.eu/congress/202. Abstract submission platform: eapc2026.exordo.com/ Deadline: 31 October 2025. As previous year, there will be no extension to this deadline. 031
Andrea Bruun @andreabruun.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Earlier this year I was lucky to be invited to talk about The Victoria & Stuart Project at the International Better Conversations Conference 2025💫 Lovely to see so many SLTs interested in the toolkit and asking such good questions. Thanks for a great conference and for having me! #BetterConv2025 110
Reposted by Andrea BruunIrene Tuffrey-Wijne @tuffrey-wijne.com · 02/09/2025“It’s very important that people read this report”. Find it here: www.kcl.ac.uk/research/leder 044
Andrea Bruun @andreabruun.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Order printed copies of the toolkit resources to your door 📬 Order on the Marie Curie UK website here: www.mariecurie.org.uk/help/support...mariecurie.org.ukEnd of life planning toolkit for people with a learning disabilityAn end of life planning toolkit for people with a learning disability, that includes easy read guides and picture cards about funerals and illness. 030
Reposted by Andrea BruunMichael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Why I do what I do: met a former palliative care nurse & was describing how devout Muslims can hold up a single finger to represent the Shahadah if they're unable to speak. She'd never heard of this. "I wonder how many times nurses see this, think someone is agitated, and drug them." 2277
Andrea Bruun @andreabruun.bsky.social · 29/08/2025So proud to have been involved in The Victoria & Stuart Project! @victstuproject.bsky.social 030
Andrea Bruun @andreabruun.bsky.social · 29/08/2025@tuffrey-wijne.com on stage receiving the award for @victstuproject.bsky.social 🏆 020
Reposted by Andrea BruunAnna Wilde @annawilde.bsky.social · 29/08/2025The ASDS Public Engagement Award has gone to the Victoria and Stuart Project @asdsdeath.bsky.social @ddd17-2025.bsky.social #DDD17 . Congratulations! 284
Andrea Bruun @andreabruun.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Check out our new paper! 📰 We learned a lot about how the end-of-life care planning toolkit works in practice - and a lot about how to evaluate things in the future (talking to peole and short and straightforward surveys!). The toolkit is still available on: www.victoriaandstuart.com 010
Reposted by Andrea BruunSteve Hardy @stevehardyldn.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Redefining Best Practice: Integrating Learning Disability Expertise into Palliative Careehospice.comAdvancing Equity in Palliative Care: A New Model for Supporting People with Learning DisabilitiesTwo and a half years since becoming the first Clinical Nurse Specialist (Learning Disabilities) at St Christopher’s, Phoebe Mooney remains the only such nurse 062
Andrea Bruun @andreabruun.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Our wonderful @uclpals.bsky.social MSc student, Phineas Winterbottom, worked on rule-breaking in hospice MDT meetings in his final project. After his SLT studies, he turned his dissertation into a paper, now published in Discourse Studies. Check it out! 150
Reposted by Andrea BruunThe DAPPLE Project @dappleproject.bsky.social · 30/07/2025📄 New paper alert! 📄 Our protocol paper for DAPPLE has been published 🎉 You can read it below. It’s open access and sets out what we’re doing and how we’ll do it. bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/7...bmjopen.bmj.com 012
Andrea Bruun @andreabruun.bsky.social · 24/07/2025It has been a pleasure being involved in this review on systemic medications and dementia risk. Check out our new paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comSystemic medications and dementia risk: a systematic umbrella review - Molecular PsychiatryMolecular Psychiatry - Systemic medications and dementia risk: a systematic umbrella review 010
Reposted by Andrea BruunProf Katherine Sleeman @katherinesleeman.bsky.social · 22/07/2025📣 Are you a UK-based professional working in palliative or end of life care? 💥 Help shape priorities for the new Impact Centre for Palliative and End-of-Life Care. We’re inviting health & care professionals & commissioners to complete our Stakeholder Survey 👉 qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...qualtrics.kcl.ac.ukThe Impact Centre for Palliative and End-of-Life Care Stakeholder SurveyBy completing this survey, you will help shape the priorities for the Impact Centre. 024
Andrea Bruun @andreabruun.bsky.social · 18/07/2025So excited about this! We hope the print and deliver service will help staff with getting hold of and using The Victoria & Stuart Project resources with people they support. It's a pleasure leading a project when you're working with such a brilliant (and fun) team! 030
Andrea Bruun @andreabruun.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Last year I was so lucky to be awarded one of the Kingston University First Grants Schemes🌠My project is a small-scale Conversation Analysis pilot study where I'm video-recording conversations between patients with a learning disability and hospice staff. Read all about it in our new protocol paper! 2287
Reposted by Andrea BruunCentre for Open Thanatology @openthanatology.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Looking forward to our event tomorrow - Caught between the dream and realities: considering ‘advance care planning’ 152
Reposted by Andrea BruunGemma Allen (she/her) @gemmaallen.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Calling all Scottish #palliative & #healthcare colleagues 🏴 We’ve been approached to deliver No Barriers Here Facilitator Training in Scotland later this year (likely November) & inviting expressions of interest Please email: gemma.allen@marystevenshospice.co.uk to be added to the mailing list 021
Andrea Bruun @andreabruun.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Did a little DAPPLE blog about the European Association for Palliative Care (@eapcvzw.bsky.social) 2025 conference. Check it out! ✍🏼 051
Andrea Bruun @andreabruun.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Excited to continue working on The Victoria & Stuart Project! I am leading a new "Print & Deliver" study funded by the Marie Curie Research Impact Scheme. We are busy setting up the study together with Marie Curie, and soon we'll be able to send out copies of the toolkit to you 🕊️ Watch this space! 020
Reposted by Andrea BruunLaura Jenkins @laalaajenkins.bsky.social · 03/06/2025📣 Workshop announcement “Conversation Analysis & Healthcare Interactions” Led by Marco Pino, Saul Albert, Charles Antaki, Katie Jordin @darg-sessions.bsky.social Loughborough University 📆11-12 Sep ‘25 📍 online darg.lboro.ac.uk/event/online... #emca @lborocrcc.bsky.socialdarg.lboro.ac.ukOnline workshop in conversation analysis and healthcare interactions – DARG 0127
Reposted by Andrea BruunMarco Pino @marcopino.bsky.social · 02/06/2025We are advertising an Online Workshop in Conversation Analysis and Healthcare Interactions (Loughborough University). Details: darg.lboro.ac.uk/news/new-wor...darg.lboro.ac.ukNew workshop advertised – DARG 0127
Andrea Bruun @andreabruun.bsky.social · 01/06/2025I still can’t believe I have won the 2025 European Association for Palliative Care Early Researcher Award! 🍀 Thank you to the @eapcvzw.bsky.social for the award, and thank you for all the kind and encouraging words I’ve received over the last days. I really really appreciate it! 6474
Andrea Bruun @andreabruun.bsky.social · 07/05/2025@sorensorensen.bsky.social, Christina Emborg, and I have been swearing a lot - but for research purposes! 🔍 We explored the Danish swear word expression 'hva fanden' ('what the devil'). New paper just published in Discourse and Conversation Analysis: www.gespraechsforschung-online.de/en/2025.html 082
Reposted by Andrea BruunThe DAPPLE Project @dappleproject.bsky.social · 03/04/2025👀 NEW BLOG POST 👀 by @andreabruun.bsky.social We share our first two DAPPLE posters. One is about employing researchers with a learning disability as researchers, and the second introduces the DAPPLE project. BOTH posters won prizes! Go team 🏆 www.dappleproject.com/post/11-the-...dappleproject.com11. The first DAPPLE postersBack in December 2024, members of the DAPPLE team went to the Seattle Club Conference. The conference was held in London (not Seattle!) on 12-13 December by King’s College London. The Seattle Club Con... 032
Andrea Bruun @andreabruun.bsky.social · 07/03/2025FINALLY got to do the CARM training with @lizstokoe.bsky.social 🎙️ Now I'm filled with ideas for future projects around how to create impact by implementing, "using", and training people in communication based on real-life Conversation Analysis findings. Thank you, Liz! 0100
Andrea Bruun @andreabruun.bsky.social · 11/02/2025The Victoria & Stuart Project has won the Marie Curie Tammy Prescott PPI 2025 Award🏆We are SO proud to have won this award. Thank you to the panel and the kind words. A big thank you to everyone involved for making this (and the toolkit) happen; we could not have done it without you! #MCResearch2025 1122
Andrea Bruun @andreabruun.bsky.social · 11/02/2025At the @mariecurieuk.bsky.social Research Into Practice Conference these days? 💡 #MCResearch2025 Then check out our @dappleproject.bsky.social poster booth! 🔍 It's called: Developing effective service models for Adult Palliative and end-of-life care for People with a LEarning disability: DAPPLEyoutube.comThe DAPPLE Project information video (NIHR159160)YouTube video by Prof Irene Tuffrey-Wijne 253
Andrea Bruun @andreabruun.bsky.social · 11/02/2025✨Our overview paper of The Victoria & Stuart Project has been published in JARID✨ One paper to capture everything we did to create our end-of-life care planning toolkit for people with learning disabilities. Link to paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 161
Reposted by Andrea BruunLearning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Please share: new funded PhD opportunity! Navigating the Mental Capacity Act to support Sexual Decision-Making for People with Learning Disabilities To find out more please follow the link below: #AcademicSky #FindAPhD #PhD #LearningDisabilitiesResearchfindaphd.comNavigating the Mental Capacity Act to support Sexual Decision-Making for People with Learning Disabilities at Manchester Metropolitan University on FindAPhD.comPhD Project - Navigating the Mental Capacity Act to support Sexual Decision-Making for People with Learning Disabilities at Manchester Metropolitan University, listed on FindAPhD.com 098
Reposted by Andrea BruunSøren Sandager Sørensen @sorensorensen.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Our project has a PhD position available investigating understanding problems in Norwegian police interviews with a focus on L2 speakers - ideally someone with experience with conversation analysis (note: requires knowledge of a Scandinavian language) - DL March 16🐦🐦 www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...jobbnorge.noDoktorgradsstipendiat i rettslingvistikk ved Fakultet for humaniora og pedagogikk (273824) | Universitetet i Agder (UiA)Stillingstittel: Doktorgradsstipendiat i rettslingvistikk ved Fakultet for humaniora og pedagogikk (273824), Arbeidsgiver: Universitetet i Agder (UiA), Søknadsfrist: søndag 16. mars 2025 0117
Reposted by Andrea BruunElliott Hoey @elliotthoey.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Fully funded 4-year PhD with me at VU Amsterdam #emca workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...workingat.vu.nlVacancy — PhD position: Recording in social interactionAre you looking for a PhD position in the field of communication? Do you have a background in conversation analysis, interactional-, or sociolinguistics? Are you fascinated by the impact of smartphone... 17453
Reposted by Andrea BruunTalking Mats @talkingmats.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Welcome @strathcarron.bsky.social delighted to see you here. We are pleased to partner with you to deliver our course on using Talking mats to enable advanced or future care planning in March www.talkingmats.com/talking-mats... #hospice #EofLcare #palliative #endoflifetalkingmats.comTalking Mats and Advance Care Planning - Improving Communication, Improving LivesTalking Mats is a social enterprise whose vision is to improve the lives of people with communication difficulties. How Talking Mats can improve communication and lives. 0103
Reposted by Andrea BruunElizabeth Peel (she/they) @lizpeel.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Fully funded #PhD see www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN059/p... Deadline 28 Feb. Please share.jobs.ac.ukPhD Studentship: Identity Work in Palliative Care: A Conversation Analytic Study of Interactions with Newly Diagnosed Patients at Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnershipjobs.ac.uk are now advertising a PhD Studentship: Identity Work in Palliative Care: A Conversation Analytic Study of Interactions with Newly Diagnosed Patients. Discover exciting PhD opportunities on ... 0107
Reposted by Andrea BruunDr Lisa O'Leary @lisacoleary.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Please see exciting opportunity to join our amazing international team of Associate Editors for the Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities. Please share with anyone who may be interested in applying. 2712
Andrea Bruun @andreabruun.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Only a few days left to apply for our PhD studentship! 💥 The PhD is full-time, starting in March 2025, and part of @dappleproject.bsky.social. You will be supervised by @tuffrey-wijne.com, Prof Jayne Price, and myself. The deadline to apply is 20 January, so it’s time to submit!kingston.ac.ukFaculty-funded PhD studentships - Research Degrees - Faculty of Health, Science, Social Care and Education - Kingston UniversityFind out about the range of Faculty-funded PhD studentships in the Faculty of Health, Science, Social Care and Education at Kingston University. 034
Reposted by Andrea BruunJacob Davidsen @jdavidsen.bsky.social · 16/01/2025We are very proud to release 360mash - a light weight and completely free software for doing anonymisation. 0138
Andrea Bruun @andreabruun.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Another paper published from The Victoria & Stuart Project today! 📢 It has been such a privilege to do this piece of work together with @vodgmembership.bsky.social. Thank you so much to everyone involved for getting us here. Hopefully we will get people to not assume but ask in the future! 382
Andrea Bruun @andreabruun.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Hear more about The Victoria & Stuart Project and how to include people with PMLD in end-of-life care planning at the "Exploring factors impacting end of life care and decision making for people with PMLD" webinar on Tuesday 11 February at 13.30-15.30 💡: www.events.england.nhs.uk/events/explo...events.england.nhs.ukExploring factors impacting end of life care and decision making for people with PMLD | NHS England EventsA webinar exploring factors impacting end of life care and decision making for people with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD) This webinar, hosted by the South West NHS England Learnin... 022
Andrea Bruun @andreabruun.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Only one week left to apply for our PhD studentship. Get those applications ready! ✉️ 011
Reposted by Andrea BruunHolly Wilson @healthlibraryholly.bsky.social · 30/12/2024📣CALLING ALL #SLTs 📣 ❗️Do you think ‘#EasyRead’ information should be easier to read? ❗️Can you tell us what the criteria for ‘Easy Read’ should be? ❗️Do you want to be involved in shaping best practice? Please fill out our surveys: herts.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 01211
Andrea Bruun @andreabruun.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Apply to do a full-time PhD with us💡It will be all about palliative care and learning disability, and we’re very friendly and supportive - and fun! @dappleproject.bsky.social @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social 055