Documenting my research journey
The Acute and Critical Care Research Group are delighted to be hosting Dr Jessie Cooper, who will be talking about her journey investigating the everyday ethics and practices of DCD in the UK.
Abstract
Controlled organ Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) was re-introduced in the UK in 2008 to increase the rate of organs available for transplant.
DCD is now a routine donor pathway in the NHS, making up almost 49% of deceased donors.
Despite contributing to increased donor rates, DCD has been the focus of bioethical and clinical debates, since it necessitates adjusting the care of dying patients in ICU, leading to questions about the role of medicine at the end of life.
In this talk Dr Jessie Cooper will document her journey as a medical sociologist investigating the everyday ethics and practices of DCD in the UK, culminating in an RFPB grant to investigate delays in DCD.
She will discuss the uniqueness of DCD as a deceased donor pathway, the construction of everyday ethics in DCD, and the practices of integrating DCD into end-of-life care in Intensive Care settings.
She will outline how she reached her current study focus and provide insight into the complex (and sometimes chaotic!) pathway to getting access to conduct ethnographic research around DCD in the NHS.
About the speaker
Dr Jessie Cooper is a Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Health in the Department of Health Services Research & Management, City St George’s School of Health & Medical Sciences.
Jessie did her PhD on the institutional production of ‘the minority ethnic’ organ donor at The University of Liverpool.
She has since developed a focus on the practices and politics of organ donation and transplantation more broadly.
Since her PhD, she has been the Principal Investigator for an NHS Blood & Transplant funded evaluation of consent for international deceased donor research. Currently, she is Chief Investigator on an NIHR Research For Patient Benefit funded study, examining experiences and processes of delay in DCD in the NHS.
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