Laura Green is Programme Director of the Bachelors and Integrated Masters in Nursing at the University of Manchester, and a lecturer specialising in palliative and end of life care. In the past she has lectured in palliative care at the University of Bradford and worked as Clinical Academic Research Fellow for Marie Curie Hospice Bradford.

Her clinical experience is as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Palliative Care, and a nurse working in the community and the hospice settings. Her doctoral research is an ethnography of dying older people in an acute hospital ward in the UK. She is co-editor of “Collaborative Practice in Palliative Care”, and co-author of “End-of-Life Care in Dementia”. She has published a number of research and opinion pieces relating to contemporary palliative care, and writes a monthly ‘Research Roundup’ for the International Journal of Palliative Nursing.

She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She blogs at www.lmiddletongreen.wordpress.com and tweets as @heblau and @WeEOLC