Behavioural changes in #MND are difficult to identify and challenging for both HSCPs & families Join our workshop with former carer Sue Heal, who will share her experience of these changes' impact & Professor Mioshi who will discuss how to assess them Book👉 mndassociation.org/education-ev...
Dr. Elli Wilson
@elliwilson.bsky.social
Dr. Elli Wilson - Associate Professor, School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham. UK. Qualitative researcher, palliative+end of life care, MND, complex homecare https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/people/eleanor.wilson Views are my own
Clinical Community Lead role at MND Association supporting MND professionals through shared learning, service development and best practice. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/mnd-clin...
MND Clinical Community Lead
MND Association seeks a Clinical Community Lead to support MND professionals through shared learning, service development and best practice.
dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk
Head of Research role with My Name’5 Doddie Foundation leading funding programmes, drug discovery partnerships and impact evaluation for MND research. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/head-of-...
Head of Research - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER
My Name’5 Doddie Foundation seeks a Head of Research to lead funding programmes, drug discovery partnerships and impact evaluation for MND research.
dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk
Do have a look at this animation, it's really informative and based on some excellent research.
📢Check out our short animation to help inform decisions about using tracheotomy ventilation for MND scitube.io/jon-palmer-t... Also - families experiences in our 'Living with TV' resource: www.nottingham.ac.uk/helmopen/res... @mndassoc.bsky.social @uonresearch.bsky.social #TVLife
📢Check out our short animation to help inform decisions about using tracheotomy ventilation for MND scitube.io/jon-palmer-t... Also - families experiences in our 'Living with TV' resource: www.nottingham.ac.uk/helmopen/res... @mndassoc.bsky.social @uonresearch.bsky.social #TVLife
Jon Palmer | Tracheostomy Ventilation in MND: Insights from Patients, Families and Clinicians - SciTube
Motor neurone disease (MND), also known as ALS, causes progressive muscle weakness that eventually affects breathing. When wanting help to support their breathing the majority of people with MND in th...
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📢Delighted to been funded by the @mndassoc.bsky.social to better understand families' experiences of Complex Homecare in MND. Secondary analysis of existing data offered significant ethical and methodological advantages. @uonresearch.bsky.social #CHiMND doi.org/10.1177/2632...
Paid homecare worker support for people living with motor neurone disease: A secondary analysis of people living with motor neurone disease and family member perspectives - Eleanor Wilson, Nicola Turn...
Background: People living with motor neurone disease (MND) increasingly receive complex, life-sustaining interventions at home, including ventilation, tube feed...
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⏰ Applications for our fully funded PhD studentship at University of Nottingham close this week on 28 June 2026. Focused on ageing and resilience in later life. 🗓 Interviews: 17 July 2026 Don't miss out 👇 arc-em.nihr.ac.uk/news/new-phd...
📢Last 10 days! Closing 26th June 2026 Are you a Family living with MND in the UK? Research by @uniofleicester.bsky.social #OptiMND @nihr.bsky.social Family carers survey: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/leicester/... People living with MND survey: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/leicester/...
Opti MND survey family and friends | Jisc Online Surveys
Jisc Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...
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Very happy that the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Palliative and End of Life Care has been extended to end 2028! It’s a huge privilege to lead the Unit with Prof Fliss Murtagh, and working w brilliant colleagues at KCL, Universities of Hull, Lancaster, Leeds, Cambridge. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/nihr-po...
NIHR Policy Research Unit in Palliative and End of Life Care receives further £2m funding | King's College London
The NIHR Policy Research Unit (PRU) in Palliative and End of Life Care is funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and hosted by King’s College London in collaboration with...
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Want to know more about living with tracheostomy ventilation in MND? Check out our resource. #TVLife Funded by the MNDA @mndassoc.bsky.social @uonresearch.bsky.social @cmf64.bsky.social @mndeducation.bsky.social www.nottingham.ac.uk/helmopen/res...
Amazing and thought provoking research by David Wenzel. doi.org/10.1111/1467...
Deus Ex Machina: An Ethnographic Exploration of Technology, Death and Decision‐Making in Respiratory Care
Noninvasive advanced respiratory support (NARS) is widely used in acute respiratory failure, including at the end of life, where its use is ethically and emotionally fraught. This ethnographic study ....
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📢Out now! #TVLife @mndassoc.bsky.social Perspectives of people with MND living with tracheostomy ventilation doi.org/10.1080/0963...
A qualitative exploration of how people with motor neurone disease who use tracheostomy ventilation understand and experience quality of life
This qualitative study aimed to increase awareness of how people with motor neurone disease (pwMND) who use tracheostomy ventilation (TV) understand quality of lifeSemi-structured interviews were c...
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📢Out now! #TVLife #MNDA doi.org/10.1080/0963...
Living with tracheostomy ventilation for motor neurone disease: a qualitative study of family member perspectives
To examine the experiences of family members caring for people with motor neurone disease (MND) who use tracheostomy ventilation.Drawing on a constructivist interpretivist approach, qualitative int...
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Epidemiological Consultant role with the MND Association analysing UK datasets to produce national incidence and prevalence estimates for MND. Closing date: 11th June www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/epidemio...
Epidemiological Consultant - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER
MND Association seeks an Epidemiological Consultant to analyse national MND incidence and prevalence using UK datasets and secure research environments.
dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk
We've launched a new webinar on voice and message banking! Join to learn how to help people with #MND consider voice & message banking options. The session will also provide an overview of current providers & the process involved 🗓️30 April 📍Online & free Book on mndassociation.org/education-events
Calendar of events
Here is a comprehensive list of the education events and opportunities that will support your continuous professional development - from webinars to conferences.
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MND Association PhD studentships fund top UK and Ireland research into motor neurone disease. Four year awards. Summary applications due 1 May 2026. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/funding/phd-...
PhD Studentships (Biomedical and Healthcare)
MND Association PhD studentships fund top UK and Ireland research into motor neurone disease. Four year awards. Summary applications due 1 May 2026.
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MND Association Healthcare Grants support research to improve care and quality of life in #MND #ALS. UK and Ireland applicants welcome. Apply by 1 May 2026. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/funding/mnd-...
MND Healthcare Research - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER
MND Association Healthcare Grants support research to improve care and quality of life in MND. UK and Ireland applicants welcome. Apply by 1 May 2026.
dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk
Nicola Tuner is in Brighton at the @pccongress.bsky.social sharing two projects we have been working on funded by the @mndassoc.bsky.social - delighted to be able to share these posters
On 19 May we're hosting the second competency builder session on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy! HSCPs from any discipline can join this online workshop & and learn to use ACT principles in their practice to help people with #MND consider therapies Book on mndassociation.org/education-events!
Join us to help develop recommendations to improve how "failure" is understood and experienced in HE! We want to hear from academic researchers at ANY career stage - PhDs all the way to established professors - in ANY department or discipline. *Please re-post to your networks!*
UK’s ‘unsung army’ of full-time unpaid carers needs more support, report says www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
UK’s ‘unsung army’ of full-time unpaid carers needs more support, report says
Resolution Foundation finds one in three carers from poorer families unable to work because of responsibilities
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Sign up to hear about our latest research on improving end-of-life care and future projects and collaboration opportunities. Our research team is part of PELiCam in the Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge. Sign up here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Our new paper revealing the often under-reported harms in end-of-life care, within reported incidents. This inhibits systems learning and downplays the patient and family voice
Hidden harms in #End-Of-Life injectable symptom control #HealthCare: many patient safety incidents reported as 'no harm' contain descriptions of physical/psychological harm experienced by patients and families doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... @drbenbowers.bsky.social @carsonstevens.bsky.social #PrimaryCare
Access our new research paper in BJGP on learning from injectable medication incident reports in the community. We highlight the potential of cross-organisational targets to visit within 2 hours in a crisis
Patient safety involving injectable medication in community end-of-life care needs improvements in symptom control care to ensure access to assessment, prescriptions, continuity & rapid visits to administer medication doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... @drbenbowers.bsky.social @dphpc.bsky.social @eng.cam.ac.uk
📣Out today: “The system doesn’t really cater for the trauma that Black people have experienced” – Experiences of grief and bereavement in Black British and Black Caribbean heritage communities in England: A qualitative study www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Policy brief: tinyurl.com/34sh98ac
“The system doesn’t really cater for the trauma that Black people have experienced” – Experiences of grief and bereavement in Black British and Black Caribbean heritage communities in England: A qualitative study
People from Black and other minoritized ethnic communities are known to experience health and social care inequities, including barriers to accessing bereavement support. However, bereavement exper...
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Structural racism & cultural misunderstanding compound grief for Black British/Black Caribbean communities, study finds. Authors call for widespread changes to improve bereavement experiences & access to support. 📰News: tinyurl.com/yc5tvucm 📄Paper: tinyurl.com/2eremjs4 #NationalGriefAwarenessWeek
If you're an ECR who has done great work to promote open research, please consider applying for this excellent award! I recieved this earlier this year and my minifig sits proudly in my office 😊 A great way to recognise ECR contributions!
Nominations for the UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize 2026 have opened! Named after @deevybee.bsky.social, the prize, first awarded in 2022, celebrates the contributions of early career researchers to research improvement. Nominations close 18 January 2026. #AcademicSky #Research
Vacancy for a Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at University of Oxford. Lead dementia and mental health research shaping future care for older adults. Closing date: 5th January www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/professo...
Professor: Old Age Psychiatry - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER
Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at University of Oxford. Lead dementia and mental health research shaping future care for older adults.
dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk
'The Association of British Paediatric Nurses (ABPN) expresses serious concerns following the University of Nottingham’s decision to suspend children’s nursing and mental health nursing programmes.' www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Short term decisions – long term impact | Fiona Smith
Short term decisions – long term impact on children and young people The Association of British Paediatric Nurses (ABPN) expresses serious concerns following the University of Nottingham’s decision ...
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"We would never tolerate a government that chose to defund 70% of neonatal services, gambling that charities would fill the gap. Yet this is exactly the situation for end-of-life care." Please read my piece on the travesty of NHS palliative care underfunding 🙏 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As a palliative care specialist, I’ve witnessed the human tragedy of our end-of-life care crisis | Rachel Clarke
While the government debates assisted dying, palliative care is an afterthought. And many more people face death without the care and support they need, says Rachel Clarke
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