Professor Christine Ingleton RGN, BEd (Hons), MA, PhD, Cert Ed
The School of Nursing & Midwifery
Barber House
387 Glossop Road
Sheffield S10 2HQ
Tel: +44 (0) 114 222 2047
Fax: +44 (0) 114 226 6970
email : c.ingleton@sheffield.ac.uk
Biography
I joined the University of Sheffield in 1985 and have worked as a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and more recently as Professor of Palliative Care Nursing.
Within this period, I have contributed to 25 research grants and awards totalling over £3.8 million. I have published over 90 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 edited a 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.
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 currently 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
- Ingleton C, Gott M with Seymour J, Bennett M and Noble B - Transitions to palliative care for older people in acute hospitals
- Hinchliff S, Gott M & Ingleton C - Examining uterine cancer and peri-menopause: a systemic review of the literature
- Ingleton C, Gardiner C & Gott M - A pilot study to develop an appropriate methodology to examine the effects of the ‘Shipman’ murders on opiate prescribing within cancer and palliative care
- Ingleton C, Gardiner C & Gott M - Improving hospital environments for the end of life care of older people dying of malignant disease
- 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
- Watson R, Reid D & Ingleton C - Using the Edinburgh Feeding Evaluation in dementia in acute care
- Gott M, Robinson J, Ingleton C et al - Avoidable hospitalisations/inappropriate interventions amongst hospital in-patients with palliative care needs
- Gardiner C, Gott M & Ingleton C – Factor supporting good partnership working between generalist and specialist palliative care services
- Ryan T, McKeown J & Ingleton C – Life story work for people with dementia: wider dissemination and training events
Key publications
- 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 d 1773
- Gardiner C, Ingleton C, Gott M and Ryan T (2011) Exploring transitions from curative to palliative care: a systematic review. British Medical Journal in Supportive and Palliative Care 1: 56-63.
- Gardiner C, Cobb M, Gott M and Ingleton C (2011) Barriers to providing palliative care for older people in acute hospitals. Ageing and Ageing 12:32-41
- Ingleton C, Payne S, Seymour J and 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.
- Ingleton C, Chatwin J, Seymour J and 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 322 doi 10/1111