Lancaster University expert gets Churchill Fellowship
Lancaster University researcher Dr Danni Collingridge Moore MBE has been awarded a £10,000 Churchill Fellowship.
Dr Collingridge Moore from the Faculty of Health and Medicine has one of only 140 Fellowships awarded out of a total of over 900 applications across the UK.
The Churchill Fellowship was awarded for her project titled ‘International palliative care in care homes in a COVID-19 world’, which will explore how other countries approached the provision of end-of-life care in care homes during COVID-19. The Fellowship will fund two three week visits to Canada and Japan to meet other researchers and visit local care homes.
She said: “This is a fantastic opportunity, and I am extremely grateful to the Churchill Fellowship for recognising the value of learning from other countries’ experiences to ensure care home residents in the UK are cared for during pandemics.”
Julia Weston, Chief Executive of The Churchill Fellowship, said: “The standard this year was particularly high. Being awarded a Fellowship is truly a great achievement. As well as being a great personal achievement, the Fellowship also means that you are now part of a UK wide network of extraordinary individuals who, like you, are highly motivated to improve and develop their particular field, profession or community.”
Dr Collingridge Moore is currently the inaugural Dowager Countess Eleanor Peel Trust Sir Robert Boyd Fellow, a three year post-doctoral fellowship. The fellowship was awarded for her project titled ‘Living and dying in care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic: what worked well and why?’
She gained her PhD from Lancaster University in 2021 while working as a researcher at the University’s International Observatory on End of Life Care (IOELC).
During the COVID-19 pandemic, she was seconded to the Cabinet Office as a subject matter expert on adult social care. Here she co-ordinated the sourcing, analysis and presentation of health data on the COVID-19 dashboard, providing forecasting assessments to identify likely COVID-19 scenarios and potential indicator metrics.
Dr Collingridge Moore was awarded an MBE in the 2022 New Year’s Honours’ list for her work during this time.