Jane Seymour RN, BA (hons), MA, PhD

Dr. Jane Seymour is a nurse and social scientist who has worked in palliative care research and education since 1994. Before that she had a clinical career working mainly in acute and critical care settings. Her PhD was a study of end of life decision making in intensive care. She is currently the head of the Sue Ryder Care Centre for the Study of Supportive, Palliative and End of Life Care in the School of Health Sciences at The University of Nottingham. The Centre has a wide portfolio of funded research in palliative and end of life care, with a particular emphasis on policy implementation and evaluation, advance care planning and older people's experiences and outcomes of end of life care.

Dr. Jane is involved in nursing education at Master's and doctoral levels, and seeks to support nurses from the UK and internationally to develop and enhance clinical, academic and policy leadership roles. She works closely with the National End of Life Care Programme to support their work in implementing the End of Life Strategy for England.