Who are we?<\/h2>\n
The reference group consists of people interested in developing the research and practice of psychospiritual care in health and social care settings. Members include clinicians, academics, researchers, practitioners and people with lived experience. Many members of the group (but not all) are associated with one or more of the following:<\/p>\n
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- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust (OHFT)<\/li>\n
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUHFT)<\/li>\n
- Oxford Brookes University (OBU)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Members<\/h2>\n
The Reference Group includes the OxCSWell Team<\/a> and the following members:<\/p>\n
\nDr Sally Richards<\/h3>\n
Chair of the Reference Group<\/strong><\/p>\n
Visiting Fellow (Social Work) Oxford Brookes University<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\n View Sally's profile<\/span>\n <\/summary>\n
\nSally qualified as a social worker but her career changed direction after a major bereavement. She became a researcher in primary health care and then in social services. Since her PhD, an ethnographic study of the community care needs assessment of older people, she has been intrigued by negotiations between older people and practitioners. Her research and publications have focused on work with older people in social and health care settings and on promoting and enhancing gerontological social work practice. She was a Senior Lecturer in Social Work and is currently a Research Visiting Fellow at Oxford Brookes University.<\/p>\n
She has a particular interest in spirituality in later life, in old age as a time of transition and growth and in understanding ourselves and others through story and language.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/details>\n<\/div>\n
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Kate Binnie<\/h3>\nMusic, mindfulness and yoga therapist; UKRI-funded PhD student, Wolfson Centre for Palliative Care Research, Hull York Medical School<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\n View Kate's profile<\/span>\n <\/summary>\n
\nKate is an HCPC registered music therapist with 18 years\u2019 clinical experience. In 2016 she completed an MSc in palliative care from King\u2019s College London funded by the Samuel Sebba Scholarship. Kate is also a qualified yoga and mindfulness teacher (CPCAB) and works with people with chronic and life-limiting conditions and their families into bereavement. She delivers training workshops in Breath-Body-Mind integration (BBMi) at www.sobelleducation.org.uk and is a guest lecturer on the MSc in Palliative Care at KCL and on the PG cert in Psycho-spiritual care at Oxford Brookes<\/a>. After 5 years on the Wellcome funded www.lifeofbreath.org project at University of Bristol, Kate is now doing her PhD at the Wolfson Centre for Palliative Care Research at the Hull York Medical School funded by UKRI (i3).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/details>\n<\/div>\n
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Kate Butcher<\/h3>\nEducation Lead, OxCERPC, Sobell House Hospice, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\n View Kate's profile<\/span>\n <\/summary>\n
\nKate is a registered nurse with a passion for community-based nursing and palliative care. Currently she works within Sobell House Hospice in Oxford as Education Lead for OxCERPC (Oxford Centre for Education & Research in Palliative Care), an independent charity which designs and delivers education to health and social care staff locally, nationally and internationally around holistic end of life care. Kate is also a specialist nurse. The holistic nature of palliative and end of life care enables the natural integration of spiritual care into everyday work, and it is this that Kate hopes to develop further in her education role.<\/p>\n
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Rhonda Riachi<\/h3>\n![\"Joanna](\"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2023\/02\/joanna-250-circle-150x150.png\")
Joanna Tulloch<\/h3>\n