Developing child and youth friendly resources to address quality of life across the cancer care trajectory

A full-time PhD scholarship is available to work on a joint MRFF project, which focusses on developing a model of person-centric palliative care that is feasible and effective in improving quality of care and quality of life outcomes for young people with rare, untreatable and incurable cancer.

Potential work for the PhD as part of this program might include:

Facilitating co-design work with patients, families and healthcare professionals to shape and validate the model of care before testing.
A medical records audit to assess current practice for access to palliative care for children and young people with cancer.
Reviewing quality of life measures for the paediatric palliative care and oncology setting.
Evaluating implementation strategies used to embed the model of care across settings.
Developing and evaluating a model of care toolkit for future scalability and implementation.

It will be jointly supervised by A/Prof Ursula Sansom-Daly, with potential national and international advisers, dependent on the PhD focus. This can be discussed upon application. The student will join a larger international team of senior multidisciplinary clinical researchers, post-doctoral fellows and students working on the broader study, which is funded by A/Prof Sansom-Daly’s MRFF grant. Applicants are sought from students with first class honours in psychology, nursing, allied health, medicine or equivalent.

Applicants with clinical training and/or experience will be highly regarded.

Eligibility: