Kathryn Mannix
Dr. Kathryn Mannix trained and worked in palliative medicine for 30 years in the North of England, in hospices, patients’ homes and in hospital palliative care teams. She trained in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy to satisfy her interest in patients’ emotional coping, and established CBT ‘First Aid’ training for non-mental health practitioners. After waiting her whole career for the public understanding of dying and mortality to become more realistic and less terrifying, she was eventually driven to write a book about dying. ‘With the End in Mind’ unexpectedly became an award-winning, international best-seller. She’s still recovering from her surprise.
Ingrid Abreu Scherer
Ingrid is the Centre’s Civil Society Lead currently on secondment with the
National Academy for Social Prescribing as Head of Innovation Accelerator Programme. She works with charities, social enterprises and those who support them to develop effective programmes and build the evidence on what really works. Ingrid is co-founder and chair of trustees of
The Mill, an asset-based community development project in East London. She has advised other charity boards, local authorities and social enterprises on asset-based approaches to community development.
Dr. Erica Borgstrom
Erica is a medical anthropologist and senior lecturer at the Open University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). Since Autumn 2020, she has been the lead for Open Thanatology, the Open University’s research and education group focused on death-related topics.
Catherine Millington-Sanders
Catherine is a practising GP in Surrey with a special interest in communication skills as well as death dying and grief. She is a clinical commissioner in South West London and educationalist with 7 years experience as a specialty doctor in palliative medicine. She is also RCGP & Marie Curie National End of Life Care Clinical Champion and clinically led the development of the RCGP & Marie Curie Daffodil Standards – UK General Practice Standards for Advanced Serious Illness and End of Life Care.
Sam Royston
Sam is Director of Policy He was previously Policy Director at The Children’s Society, and is also a former chair of the End Child Poverty coalition. Prior to that, Sam completed his PhD in the Social Policy department at the University of York, at which point he was also an adviser at a Citizens Advice Bureau. He is also author of the book “Broken Benefits: What’s gone wrong with welfare reform”.
