Biography

I joined the University of Sheffield in 1985 and have worked as a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Head of Department, Reader and more recently as Professor of Palliative Care Nursing.

I have contributed to 40 research grants and awards totalling over £5.4 million. I have published over 100 outputs in peer reviewed journals and contributed to 6 books on health services research. I have edited 2 best selling research based textbooks on end of life care. I am have recently published an edited book `Living with Ageing and Dying: Palliative and End of Life Care for Older People´ with Merryn Gott, published by Oxford University Press.

I hold an Honorary Chair in the Department of Nursing at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Research Interests

My research interests are palliative and end-of-life care, views of informal carers, end-of-life care and older people, service evaluation and needs assessment, palliative care in general care settings, qualitative case studies and mixed methods.

Teaching Interests

My teaching interests are around issues concerned with end-of-life and palliative care in specialist and non-specialist settings.

I am module lead for:

• Methods of Enquiry - M.MedSci in Advancing Practice
• Becoming a Reflective Practitioner - M.Med/M.MedSci
• Representations of Health, Disease and Illness - B.MedSci (Health and Communications Science)

Professional Activities

I have served on 10 international research scientific committees. I am Fellow of the European Academy of Nursing Science and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. I have chaired and been a member of three European Research Councils grant reviews. I am Associate Editor for the BMJ in Supportive and Palliative Care and British Journal of Community Nursing. I am a reviewer for a number of academic journals and grant proposals in the area of end-of-life care.

Current Projects

• Goyder L, Ingleton C, Gardiner C et al - Integrate health technology assessment for evaluating complex interventions.  INTEGRATE-HTA
• Ingleton C, Gott M with Seymour J, Bennett M, Noble B - Transitions to palliative care for older people in acute hospitals
• Noble B, Hughes P, King N, Ingleton C - An evaluation of the Midhurst Services
• Munday D, Ingleton C, Noble B et al - Receiving end-of-life care at home: experiences of the bereaved carer of cancer patients cared for by Health Care Assistants

Key Publications

1. Gott M, Ingleton C, Gardiner C, Bennett M (2011) Transition to palliative care in acute hospitals in England: a qualitative study. British Medical Journal 342 doi1773

2. Ingleton C, Gardiner C, Seymour J, Richards N, Gott M (2013) Exploring education and training needs among the palliaitve care workforce.  BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care 0:1-6 doi: 10.1136/bmjspcare-2013-000233

3. Gardiner C, Cobb M, Gott M, Ingleton C (2011) Barriers to providing palliative care for older people in acute hospitals. Ageing and Ageing 40: 233-238

4. Ingleton C, Chatwin J, Seymour J, Payne S (2011) The role of the Health Care Assistant in supporting District Nurses and family carers to deliver palliative care at home: findings from an evaluation project. Journal of Clinical Nursing 20 (13-14):2043-52

5. Ingleton C, Payne S, Seymour J, Sargeant A (2009) Barriers to achieving care at home at the end-of-life: transferring patients between care settings using patient transport services. Palliative Medicine 23 (6): 498-507