We 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

Our 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!

Last 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!

I 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!

@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

FINALLY 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!

The 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

✨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....

Another 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!

In November, I presented at an inclusive research workshop held by the South West Learning Disabilities Collaborative (SWLDC).

It was a pleasure to talk about The Victoria & Stuart Project and share ways of involving and including people learning disabilities in research - and learning from others!

✨Last conference presentation of 2024✨

Today, Richard and I talked about The Victoria and Stuart Project at the Seattle Club Conference.

The audience praised us to the skies afterwards - what a way to end a long year filled with presentations!

🚨Watch out for more rambling in 2025🚨

Yesterday, I got the amazing news that my @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social First Grant application was successful!🪐Alongside @dappleproject.bsky.social, I will be working on a small pilot study exploring palliative care communication with people with learning disabilities using Conversation Analysis!

That’s a wrap! 🎬

Yesterday the last paper from my PhD thesis got published.

This paper is about how the hospice multidisciplinary team starts conversations about dying patients’ prognoses.

You can read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...