online event
Programme
- 13:30-13:40 Introduction by chair Joachim Cohen (EAPC Reference Group Public Health Palliative Care & University College London, UK) -
- 13:40-14:00 Sally Paul (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK), Public health palliative care education: children and schools
- 14:00-14:20 Bert Quintiens (End-of-Life Care Research Group Vrije Universiteit Brussel& Ghent University, Belgium), Learning network compassionate schools
- 14:20-15:00 Panel discussion and Q and A with Sarah Dury (moderator), Sally Paul, Bert Quintiens
Sally Paul is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Work and Social Policy where she teaches on the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in social work. Before joining the university, Sally worked for 10 years as a professional social worker in the statutory and voluntary sectors, both in Scotland and the USA. These experiences underpin her current teaching and research and promoting and developing social work practice is a key priority. Sally is actively engaged in a number of inter-disciplinary research projects and knowledge exchange activities with specific interests in: death, dying, loss and bereavement; public health approaches to palliative care (including compassionate communities); childhood; participatory research methods; and practice development. She welcomes opportunities to work collaboratively. Sally is a registered social worker with the Scottish Social Services Council and a member of the Association of Palliative Care Social Workers and the Public Health Palliative Care International. She has a PhD in Social Work from the University of Edinburgh and is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Bert Quintiens is a doctoral researcher and has been researching Belgium's first Compassionate Cities since 2019: Bruges and Herzele. His research revolves around a process and outcomes evaluation of both Compassionate Cities. Bert holds a nursing degree and a master's degree in healthcare management and policy. In the past, he worked as a nurse and as a clinical trial coordinator.
Joachim Cohen is co-chair of the EAPC Reference Group on Public Health & Palliative Care (together with Libby Sallnow). Prof. Joachim Cohen is a social health scientist and a professor of the End-of-Life Care Research Group of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. In the research group he is chairing a research program public health and palliative care. He graduated in 2001 as a Master in Sociology and in 2007 as a PhD in Social Health Sciences. His research has been awarded with the Kubler Ross Award for Young Researchers and the Young Investigator Award from the European Association of Palliative Care 2010. Both prizes were awarded to him, mainly because of his large-scale population-based and population-level cross-national research on end-of-life care. Prof. Cohen has published over 150 articles in international peer reviewed journals, co-edited the Oxford University Press book: “A public health perspective on end of life care”.
Sarah Dury started as a tenure track assistant professor in Adult Educational Sciences in October 2020 after being a postdoc research fellow at the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). Sarah promoted in March 2015 in the Belgian Ageing Studies research group, with a PhD-dissertation titled "Volunteering in later life: A focus on context” (promotor Dominique Verté). Her research focuses on participation, social inclusion and compassionate communities. She is involved in several local, national and European research projects. Sarah is coordinator of the Compassionate Communities Expertise Center at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She is co-promotor of the project CIVISANO (2019-2021), which focuses on developing healthy communities through participatory research and capacity building of communities with Sciensano. She is also co-promotor of the CIVEX project (European More Years Better Lives) on Exclusion of Civic engagement of a diverse older population: Characteristics, experiences and policy implications (2021-2024). In addition, she coordinates the Erasmus+ project SEE ME (Social inclusion through Meaningful ageing) on how to improve the quality of care and social inclusion for older adults. She is partner of an H2020 project (2019-2023) and supervises six PhD students. Sarah teaches a course on 'Social design, co-creation and innovation'. She is board member of SamenToujours.