2004 - 2007 - Cicely Saunders Institute - King's College London

Dr Diana Jackson PhD MSc MCSP
Senior Research Fellow
Diana trained as a physiotherapist at King’s College
Hospital and worked in a variety of clinical settings
before specialising in neurological rehabilitation. After
taking an MSc in rehabilitation studies at Southampton
University, she joined the Regional Rehabilitation Unit at
Northwick Park Hospital in 1996. There she has carried
out a series of research studies into aspects of the
rehabilitation and after care of people with complex
problems after acquired brain injury. A particular focus
has been the design and evaluation of pain assessment
tools accessible to patients with communication and
cognitive deficits. This on-going work formed the basis
of her PhD. Another main research interest concerns
carers. In collaboration with researchers from the
Institute of Psychiatry, she has recently completed a
Department of Health funded national study into the
needs and experiences of carers of adults with acquired
brain injury. Findings are being widely disseminated and
will inform service development for carers as part of the
National Service Framework for Long-Term Conditions.
Extension of this work to compare and contrast the
experiences of carers according to their differential
family circumstances, and the condition-specific
problems they have to cope with, in a range of other
long-term neurological conditions is now underway.
Jonathan Koffman BSc MSc
Lecturer in Palliative Care, MSc Course Co-ordinator
Jonathan has a BSc in Social Administration and an
MSc in Sociology with Special Reference to Medicine
from Royal Holloway and Bedford New College.
Jonathan's previous work experience involved health
services research and health services commissioning
for a number of health authorities. He is now Lecturer in
Palliative Care and Course Co-ordinator for the interprofessional
Postgraduate Certificate, Diploma and MSc
in Palliative Care run in collaboration with St. Christopher's
Hospice. His research interests include the endof-life
experiences of black and minority ethnic groups,
social exclusion, and palliative care education. He has
published in the following areas: culture and ethnicity,
older people, needs assessment, social exclusion and
palliative care, palliative care education, HIV and AIDS,
as well as mental health and homelessness. He is
currently completing his PhD that has explored the
experience of living with, and dying from, advanced
cancer among black Caribbean and white patients living
in south east London.
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