Interdisciplinary research: My journey and insights

By Professor Dame Jessica Corner, University of Nottingham

This seminar is about Professor Dame Jessica Corner's involvement in research, in cancer and end of life care over the last 35 years, and for the last several years as a Pro-Vice Chancellor providing strategic leadership for research in a very large, broadly-based, research intensive university.

Professor Dame Corner's experiences have given her many insights into the value of research drawn from distinct disciplines and the importance of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research especially when tackling challenge led and use inspired research. She will draw on these experiences to offer insights into how new forms of interdisciplinary or disciplinary flu-id research will increasingly be a new ‘normal’ and how colleagues working in applied health disciplines might capitalise on this.

About the speaker

Professor Dame Jessica Corner is currently Pro-Vice Chancellor of Research and Knowledge Exchange at University of Nottingham. Dame Jessica’s many accolades include: the first nurse at the Institute of Cancer Research to be appointed to Chair, Dame Commander of the British Empire for services to health care research and education and in 2018, when the UK NHS turned 70, she was named as one of the most influential nurses in it’s history.

About the seminar series

The Cicely Saunders Institute Open Seminar Series events are free to attend and there is no need to register.

This seminar is worth CPD (1 credit) pending from the Royal College of Physicians. 

The series aim is to optimise opportunities for local, national and international networking within palliative care and rehabilitation. We facilitate seminars to assist in improving practice, education and policy, and the integration of research and clinical endeavours.

Part of Cicely Saunders Institute turns 10, celebrating 10 years since the opening of the Cicely Saunders Institute at King's College London in 2010.