Gillian is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Palliative Care at Hull York Medical School. Her research interests focus on improving equity in access to and quality of palliative care, cancer care, and the detection, assessment, management, and prevention of delirium. She specialises in mixed methods research, with expertise in the evaluation of complex interventions in real-world healthcare settings. She is currently a co-applicant and Research Fellow lead on the DAMPen Delirium II trial, which focuses on improving care for people experiencing delirium in palliative care inpatient settings.
Gillian is Deputy Module Lead for the Implementation Science module on the MSc Palliative Care programme, while additionally contributing to teaching across other modules of the programme.
Gillian is a postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre. Her main research focus is to tackle complex healthcare challenges primarily in palliative care and oncology. She has worked on various studies conducting mixed methods research including quantitative data collection/analysis, study site engagement and retention, co-design, and process evaluation through the application of implementation theory in surveys and interviews.
She previously worked as a Research Fellow on the process evaluation team as part of the CANFit study. This study is investigating a personalised exercise programmed for people at higher risk of cancer recurrence. During her time, she contributed to the development and progression of the process evaluation and is first author on the study’s process evaluation protocol, which is due to be submitted shortly.
A notable recent study was the DAMPen-Delirium study- Improving the Detection, Assessment, Management, and Prevention of Delirium in Hospices. Gillian was the Research Fellow on this 2-year feasibility study which was part of the TRANSFORM Project funded by Yorkshire Cancer Research.
The findings have directly informed the design of the main trial - DAMPen-Delirium II, a four-year NIHR funded study, for which Gillian is a co-applicant and Research Fellow lead.
More information on the DAMPen-Delirium II trial.
Postgraduate (Taught)
Palliative Care Implementation science (Deputy Module Lead)- Palliative Care: Implementing Best Practice (PGCert/PGDip/MSc)
Contributes to teaching across other modules within the programme
Fellowship
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Key recent publications
Pearson M, Jackson G, Jackson C, Boland J, Featherstone I, Huang C, et al. Improving the Detection, Assessment, Management and Prevention of Delirium in Hospices (the DAMPen-D study): protocol for a co-design and feasibility study of a flexible and scalable implementation strategy to deliver guideline-adherent delirium care. BMJ Open. 2022;12(7):e060450.
Jackson G, Jackson C, Boland JW, Featherstone I, Huang C, Ogden M, et al. Improving the Detection, Assessment, Management, and Prevention of Delirium in Hospices (the DAMPen-
D study): Feasibility Study of a flexible and scalable implementation strategy to deliver guideline-adherent delirium care Palliative Medicine. 2024;[accepted for publication].
Jackson, G., Pearson, M., Jackson, C., Boland, J., Featherstone, I., Huang, C., Ogden, M., Sartain, K., Siddiqi, N., Twiddy, M. & Johnson, M.J (2024) Improving the Detection, Assessment, Management and Prevention of Delirium in Hospices (DAMPen-D): A Process Evaluation. Presented at European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC), Barcelona , 16-18 June 2024
Key recent presentations:
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ORAL PRESENTATIONS:
Jackson, G., Pearson, M., Jackson, C., Boland, J., Featherstone, I., Huang, C., Ogden, M., Sartain, K., Siddiqi, N., Twiddy, M. & Johnson, M.J (2022) The DAMPen-D study: Improving the detection, assessment, management, and prevention of delirium in hospices. Presented at the i3 Creating Connections Palliative Care Conference, 28th June 2022
Jackson, G., Pearson, M., Jackson, C., Boland, J., Featherstone, I., Huang, C., Ogden, M., Sartain, K., Siddiqi, N., Twiddy, M. & Johnson, M.J. Using an implementation strategy to improve guideline-adherent delirium care in hospices: the Detection, Assessment, Management and Prevention of Delirium in Hospices (DAMPen-D) process evaluation. Presented at the Australasian Delirium Association (ADA) Conference, Sydney, Australia, 3rd November 2023.
Jackson, G., Pearson, M., Jackson, C., Boland, J., Featherstone, I., Huang, C., Ogden, M., Sartain, K., Siddiqi, N., Twiddy, M. & Johnson, M.J. How can we use theory to develop and implement interventions to improve delirium care? Recent research from palliative care. Symposium presentation at the Australasian Delirium Association (ADA) Conference, Sydney, Australia, 3rd November 2023.
NATIONAL CONFERENCE ORAL PRESENTATIONS:
Jackson, G., Pearson, M., Jackson, C., Boland, J., Featherstone, I., Huang, C., Ogden, M., Sartain, K., Siddiqi, N., Twiddy, M. & Johnson, M.J (2022) The DAMPen-D study: Improving the detection, assessment, management, and prevention of delirium in hospices. Presented at Hospice UK conference, Glasgow, 22-24 November 2022.
NATIONAL CONFERENCE POSTER PRESENTATIONS:
Jackson, G., Pearson, M., Jackson, C., Boland, J., Featherstone, I., Huang, C., Ogden, M., Sartain, K., Siddiqi, N., Twiddy, M. & Johnson, M.J (2023) Using an implementation strategy to improve guideline-adherent delirium care in hospices: Emerging findings of the DAMPen-Delirium feasibility study. Presented at Palliative Care Congress, Edinburgh, 16-17 March 2023