Staff Profile - Amanda Bingley
Research Associate
Amanda Bingley
Amanda Bingley joined the Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University, as a Research Associate in September 2001. Previously she had studied Geography at Lancaster University (1993-1996) before conducting ESRC funded doctoral research on gender and landscape perception at the Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh (1996-2001). This research was a qualitative in-depth study of the influence of gender identity and very early infant and childhood sensory experience on subsequent adult sensory perception of landscape.
Coming from a background of many years working in humanistic psychotherapy and homeopathic medicine, Amanda's research draws extensively on psychotherapeutic theory and methodology. Her research interests include; the complexities of individual and the wider community's relationship between health and place; ethics in social and cultural research; palliative care in complementary and alternative medicine. As a research associate, she has been involved working as part of a team on a two-year collaborative project in 2002, with the NHS, Age Concern, Carlisle and Carlisle City Council studying the comparative benefits of gardening versus social activities in older people in Carlisle and in 2004, a Forestry Commission conducted a study into the long term mental health benefits of woodland childhood play space for young people.
Since 2004 she has been working directly with the Observatory on a team-based study funded by Macmillan Cancer Relief, UK, into narratives written by professionals, patients and carers about the experiences of knowingly facing death. In 2005, she has been researching and writing a series of reports, funded by the National Cancer Institute, US, on the development of palliative care services in six countries in the Middle East, as part of the global, ongoing IOELC country report project.
Current Projects
Cancer Experiences Collaborative (CECo)Middle East Cancer Consortium (MECC): Country reports on hospice and palliative care service provision for all 6 member countries
Previous Projects
A pilot questionnaire survey of current hospice and palliative care service provision in the 6 member countries of the Middle East Cancer Consortium (MECC)Journal Articles
McDermott E, Bingley AF, Thomas C, Payne S, Seymour J, Clark D(2006) Viewing patient need through professional writings: a systematic 'ethnographic' review of palliative care professionals' experiences of caring for people with cancer at the end of life Progress in Palliative Care 14(1): 9-18
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