QUT is celebrating the awarding of $7.7 million in ARC Discovery grants to fund 15 projects.
Understanding communication about advance care planning across the lifespan has been awarded $519,459.
Chief investigator Associate Professor Stuart Ekberg from the QUT School of Psychology and Counselling said the project aimed to understand how people communicate about advance care planning for children, adolescents, and adults.
“This project expects to generate new knowledge by using leading social scientific and linguistic methods to analyse real-world advance care planning conversations and documents,” Professor Ekberg said.
“With more than 170,000 Australians dying each year, mostly from serious illness, this research will provide detailed knowledge about challenges people face in these conversations and how to manage them.”
Co-chief investigators are Professor Natalie Bradford and Distinguished Professor Patsy Yates, QUT; Professor Diana Slade, The Australian National University; Dr Katie Ekberg, The University of Queensland; Dr Ursula Sansom-Daly, The University of New South Wales; and partner investigator Metro South Hospital and Health Service; Adjunct Associate Professor Anthony Herbert, University of Technology Sydney.