Emma Gobiet

Emma Gobiet is a PhD student and Junior Researcher at the End-of-Life Care Research Group of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium. She is participating in the ERC-funded project TRAJECT (2023-2028) focused on end-of-life trajectories of elderly people with serious chronic diseases.

Her educational background includes:

• MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology from KU Leuven, supervised by Prof. Lara Pivodic.

Her research interests center on end-of-life care, ageing, and chronic disease, with a methodological focus on ethnography and narrative interviewing. She has conducted an ethnographic study on end-of-life trajectories of elderly people with an outspoken death wish in Flemish nursing homes during her MA. Her current PhD research continues this line of inquiry within the TRAJECT project, emphasizing narrative approaches to understanding patient experiences.

Scientific awards: None mentioned in the provided text.

Advising and grants: Emma Gobiet is a PhD student and does not have any advisees. She is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) through the TRAJECT project (2023-2028), which supports her research on chronic disease trajectories at the end of life.

Labs and teams: She is embedded within the End-of-Life Care Research Group at VUB, located at the Brussels Health Campus (Laarbeeklaan 103, 1090 Brussels), collaborating on interdisciplinary studies of ageing and palliative care.