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Kathryn McEwan is a Lecturer in the Department of Social Work, Education & Community Wellbeing at Northumbria University. Her research focuses on end-of-life care, death literacy, and caregiver support, with a particular emphasis on social class, healthcare service structures, and cultural narratives. She employs realist evaluation, participatory action research, and grounded theory in her work.
Education: PhD in Sociology awarded on 1 September 2018. Current roles include contributing to AHRC and NIHR HSDR funding applications and co-founding the British Sociological Association’s Mid Career Forum. She teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate programs, emphasizing compassionate and inclusive practices.
Research highlights include studies on home-based palliative care, Parkinson’s nursing, and bereavement experiences. Her work aims to improve access to care services and address exclusionary barriers. No scientific awards are explicitly listed, but her research has garnered attention in fields like BMC Palliative Care and Frontiers in Sociology.
Labs/Teams: Active in collaborative research networks, including partnerships with institutions studying healthcare service delivery and social policy impacts.
