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Dr Sue Hall
Lecturer in Palliative Care
Sue Hall is a Chartered Health Psychologist. She studied Psychology at the Polytechnic of East London (now the University of East London) and received a PhD in Health Psychology at King's College London. Her first academic appointment was on a study exploring quality of life for patients with high grade brain tumours. For most of the next 11 years, she worked with the Psychology & Genetics Research Group, King's College London, running national and international studies focusing on adjustment to serious negative life events, behaviour change, and facilitating informed choice. During this time she spent a year at the Centre for Health Care Research, at the University of Brighton as Research Fellow and NHS R & D Consultant.
In March 2006, she joined the Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation as Lecturer in Palliative Care. She is currently developing a programme of work to improve palliative care for older people, focusing at first on older people in care homes. The programme will follow a phased approach to the development and evaluation of the intervention, as recommended by the MRC Framework for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions.
