Enhancing Compassion in End-of-Life Care Through Drama

Ewan Jeffrey Ewan has worked as a Lecturer in Drama at Queen's Belfast since 2009. His teaching and research focuses on post- war British Theatre and Historiography, Drama and Medical Ethics and the plays of Harold Pinter, as well as writing for the stage and integrating audio narrative into contemporary performance and installation. Ewan's recent work has been staged across the UK and in Poland. Ewan wrote The People Left Behind featured in the Belfast Festival 2011 and based on a British Academy- funded multimedia research project on missing people and bereavement. He is interested in developing his integrated approach to sound and performance for future research projects. David Jeffrey David is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Palliative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He was Academic Mentor in the Medical School at Dundee University until December 2012. He was a palliative care consultant in the Three Counties Cancer Centre Cheltenham after 20 years as a general practitioner in Evesham. He held a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship in 2006 and now is a member of the Advisory Council of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. David is a past Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Association of Palliative Medicine of Great Britain. His recent books include Against Physician Assisted Suicide: a palliative care perspective and Patient- centred Ethics and Communication at the End of Life.