Research Scholarships

One of CECo's aims is to attract and retain high quality clinical researchers to supportive and palliative care research by providing scholarships and mentoring across the clinical career spectrum.

Scholarships

CECo has now awarded a total of £40,000 in four scholarships of £10,000 to support clinicians to work with experienced researchers to develop their skills and submit either an application for a research grant or PhD fellowship, or a substantial research-related paper.

The CECo Scholarship aims to help health care professionals develop their research ideas and submit an application for a research grant of PhD studentship award. With the support and guidance of experience CECo researchers, I plan to write a research proposal and submit an applications for a PhD training studentship. The Scholarship is for three months and I am being mentored and supervised by Prof. Kinta Beaver at the University of Manchester.
Anne-Marie Lydon, Macmillan Research Associate, School of Nursing Midwifery and Social Work, University of Manchester, 2006-7 CECo Scholar

By attending CECo meetings and courses I have also been able to meet with other researchers and find out more about what other research is being conducted and other areas of interest. Currently I have been working towards writing a proposal for a PhD which we are hopeful about obtaining funding for which again is something that I would not have had the opportunity to do without the Scholarship.
Lorna Higgins, Primary Care Graduate Mental Health Worker, Wirral Primary Care Trust, 2006-7 CECo Scholar

I am a Staff Nurse at the East Cheshire Hospice in Macclesfield, and I was delighted to be awarded a CECo Scholarship in March 2008. The Scholarship funding has benefited me in two ways: it has enabled me to attend the International Observatory on End of Life Care Research Summer School at Lancaster University, and has allowed me to reduce my hours of work so that I can conduct a research project over the next nine months. The International Research Summer School was a great experience for me, as I was able to meet a group of health care professionals from many countries, and to benefit from very high quality teaching on research methods. In the second week, each student was able to receive support and tuition on developing their own research project, and it was very helpful to have the expert support of staff from the International Observatory on End of Life Care. My own research project is a review of the literature on the specific environmental needs of older hospice patients. I have been privileged to have the support and supervision of Professor Sheila Payne and Dr Katherine Froggatt at Lancaster University. I look forward to sharing my findings when they become available!
Janet Rigby, CECo Scholar 2007-8

This year's Scholars, (2009 - 2010), are May McCreaddie, Jean Hennings and Christina Shennan.

The CECo scholarship will provide me with the opportunity to further develop my qualitative research skills and methodological expertise in the area of humour, interaction and innovative methodologies. The aim of the scholarship is to develop several publications and a post-doctoral funding application in conjunction with the innovative methodologies and research partner themes. I am delighted to have this opportunity to extend and enhance my academic horizons and am particularly pleased to be working with Professor Sheila Payne and Dr Katherine Froggatt – my supervisors/mentors for the duration of the scholarship.
May McCreaddie

I am delighted to have been awarded one of the CECo scholarships which will enable me to perform an integrative literature review and to prepare the results for publication and presentation. The title of the review is ‘Approaching the end of life and dying with dementia in care homes; the accounts of family carers. This work will be supervised by Dr Katherine Froggatt (Senior Lecturer/Head of Division, Division of Health Research, Lancaster University) and Professor John Keady (Professor of Mental Health Nursing and Older People, University of Manchester). The CECo scholarship gives me a wonderful opportunity to do this preparatory work which will underpin the proposed PhD and to work with two eminent experts in the field of dying with dementia in care homes.
Jean Hennings

The CECo scholarship will allow me to develop research skills and conduct a literature review focussing on the effects of mindfulness based interventions on patients with cancer. I am delighted and proud to be part of CECo.
Christina Shennan