Dr Andrea Bruun
Faculties, departments and locations
- Faculty of Health, Science, Social Care and Education
- Department of Public Health and Children's, Learning Disabilities and Mental Health Nursing
- School of Nursing, Allied and Public Health
- Kingston Hill
Research Fellow
- Email:
- [email protected]
About
I am working as a research fellow on The DAPPLE Project: Developing effective service models for Adult Palliative and end-of-life care for People with a Learning disability (NIHR159160).
My main research interests are in the fields of palliative care, learning disability, and communication within health and social care.
Prior to my research fellow role, I worked as a research associate on The Victoria and Stuart Project, which was about co-designing a toolkit and resources for end-of-life care planning with people with learning disabilities within social care settings (NIHR202963). I completed a PhD at the UCL Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department on prognostic decision-making within hospice multidisciplinary teams.
Qualifications
- PhD in Prognostication in Palliative Care, UCL, London, United Kingdom, 2023
- MA in Linguistics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 2019
- BA in Linguistics with supplementary subject in Lectiology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 2017
Domains
I have co-supervised several MSc student dissertations within the palliative care research field.
Qualifications
- Associate Fellowship (AFHEA), Advance HE, 2022
I am particularly interested in social interaction, and I am specialised in the methods of conversation analysis. I have done conversation analysis studies both on everyday and institutional interactional data such as hospice multidisciplinary team meetings, Norwegian advanced lung cancer consultations, funeral planning conversations with people with learning disabilities, Danish homecare visits, and university student counselling sessions.
Specialisms
- Palliative Care
- Conversation Analysis
- Learning Disability (Intellectual Disability)
Scholarly affiliations
- UCL (University College London), London, UK
- Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Publications
Don’t assume, ask! A focus group study on end-of-life care planning with people with intellectual disabilities from minoritised ethnic groups
Bruun, Andrea, Jordan, Leon, Giles, Jo, Hughes, Rhidian, Anderson-Kittow, Rebecca and Tuffrey-Wijne, Irene, 2025, BMC Palliative Care (24), pp 13
Co-designing a toolkit of approaches and resources for end-of-life care planning with people with intellectual disabilities within adult social care settings : a multi-phase study
Tuffrey-Wijne, Irene, Bruun, Andrea, Tilley, Elizabeth, Giles, Jo, Gibson, Sarah L, Cresswell, Amanda, Keagan-Bull, Richard, Allen, Gemma, Swindells, Sarah, Payne, Nicola, Hughes, Rhidian and Anderson-Kittow, Becky, 2025, Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities (JARID) (38), 1, pp e70019
Initiating prognostic talk during hospice multidisciplinary team meetings : a conversation analytic study
Bruun, Andrea, White, Nicola, Oostendorp, Linda, Stone, Patrick and Bloch, Steven, 2024, Journal of Palliative Care
The all together group : co‐designing a toolkit of approaches and resources for end‐of‐life care planning with people with intellectual disabilities in social care settings
Bruun, Andrea, Cresswell, Amanda, Jeffrey, David, Jordan, Leon, Keagan‐Bull, Richard, Giles, Jo, Swindells, Sarah, Wilding, Meg, Payne, Nicola, Gibson, Sarah L., Anderson‐Kittow, Rebecca and Tuffrey‐Wijne, Irene, 2024, Health Expectations (27), 4, pp e14174
Prognostication as an interactionally delicate matter : a conversation analytic study of hospice multidisciplinary team meetings
Bruun, Andrea, White, Nicola, Oostendorp, Linda, Stone, Patrick and Bloch, Steven, 2024, Health Communication
What are we planning, exactly? The perspectives of people with intellectual disabilities, their carers and professionals on end-of-life care planning : A focus group study
Bruun, Andrea, Cresswell, Amanda, Jordan, Leon, Keagan-Bull, Richard, Giles, Jo, Gibson, Sarah L, Anderson-Kittow, Rebecca and Tuffrey-Wijne, Irene, 2024, Palliative Medicine (38), 6, pp 669-678
Time estimates in prognostic discussions : a conversation analytic study of hospice multidisciplinary team meetings
Bruun, Andrea, White, Nicola, Oostendorp, Linda, Stone, Patrick and Bloch, Steven, 2024, Palliative Medicine (38), 5, pp 593-601
Co‐design development of a decision guide on eating and drinking for people with severe dementia during acute hospital admissions
Anantapong, Kanthee, Bruun, Andrea, Walford, Anne, Smith, Christina H., Manthorpe, Jill, Sampson, Elizabeth L. and Davies, Nathan, 2023, Health Expectations
Prognostic decision-making about imminent death within multidisciplinary teams : a scoping review
Bruun, Andrea, Oostendorp, Linda, Bloch, Steven, White, Nicola, Mitchinson, Lucy, Sisk, Ali-Rose and Stone, Patrick, 2022, BMJ Open (12), 4, pp e057194