Dr Kathryn McEwan

Kathryn McEwan is a lecturer in Health and Social Care at the University of Northumbria. After completing a PhD in youth transitions, social class, and social inequalities, she moved into the health research field for two post-docs. Initially working on the value and impact of specialist nursing for people with Parkinson's (grounded theory), followed by the impacts of specialist palliative care nurses to those who are at the end of life at home (realist evaluation).

She is currently working on papers and further research on how we can have better conversations on death and dying, and how we might best support informal caregivers at the end of life.

Kathryn is a co-convener for the British Sociological Association (BSA) Early Career Forum, where along with her colleagues they provide space, events, and resources to support early career sociologists to move into the next stage of their careers (within and outwith schools of social science).