Webinars

In this three-monthly webinar, the VUB-UGent End-of-Life Care Research Group and the Public Health at the End of Life Research Group of the Amsterdam UMC invite experienced international speakers to present health services, public health and clinical research that uses innovative research methods. The aim is to exchange and grow knowledge on a diverse range of methods used in these different disciplines and explore their potential for improving and innovating future palliative and end-of-life care research.

For whom? For everyone interested in innovative research methods in palliative and end-of-life care. The webinar is in English and open to a national and international audience.

• 20th of March 2025, Core outcome sets: the time is now! by Prof. Paula Williamson (UK)
• 10th of June 2025, Context and complexity in case study evaluations of health interventions by Dr. Sara Paparini & Dr. Jamie Murdoch (UK)
• 18th of September 2025, Research in the homeless community by Prof. Jackie Robinson (N-Z)
• 11th of December 2025, Design principles: speculative design &community foresight by Prof. JudithRietjens (NL)

• Thursday, December 12, Economic evaluation of palliative care: what is the state of the art? by Dr. Peter May 
• Thursday, September 19, Causal claims in single or comparative case studies by ­­­­­­­­­­­Prof. dr. Ferdi De Ville 
• Thursday, June 13, How discourse analysis can provide a much-needed contextualisation of our end-of-life research, Dr. Els van Wijngaarden
• Monday, April 22, Visual Research Methods in End-of-Life Research, by Naomi Richards

• 11 May 2023, Thematic analysis by dr. Victoria Clarke
• 29 June 2023,  Digital health interactional data - analysis and use by prof. Maurice Mulvenna
• 21 September 2023, Ethnography to understand palliative care by prof. Erica Borgstrom

• 15 December 2022, Existential suffering in frail older nursing home residents by Jessie Dezutter
• 15 September 2022, The prospective cohort study by Martijn Huisman 
• 23 June 2022, NPT, realist evaluation, clinical uncertainty by Jonathan Koffman
• 28 April 2022, Co-producting research and change: An introduction to participatory (action) research methods by Liesbeth De Donder

• Thursday, 25 March 2021, Ethnographic approaches to studying end-of-life care: qualitative methods for tracing care trajectories by Dr. Annemarie Samuels and Dr. Natashe Lemos Dekker

• Thursday, 24 June 2021 (Prof. Alicia O’Cathain, topics: mixed methods research and qualitative methods within clinical trials)

• Thursday, 30 September 2021 (Prof. Shaun Treweek, topics: Trial Forge on efficient trial design and methodology, including strategies to improve recruitment and retention for trials)