Dr Julie Brose

Dr. Julie Brose is a qualitative applied health researcher. Her research interests include qualitative research in health and social care settings, working with vulnerable populations, palliative care, public health, neurodegenerative disorders, and maximising function at end-of-life. She is passionate about knowledge translation and the intersection between research and clinical practice. Julie's goal is to improve the quality of life for all people through research, education, and research-informed clinical practice.

Julie completed her PhD at the Research Centre for Palliative Care, Death and Dying at Flinders University and was the recipient of the Vice Chancellors Award for Doctoral Thesis Excellence. Her research was a prospective, longitudinal study with working-aged adults living with advanced cancer, looking at the lived experience of everyday life and the process of adaptation amid functional decline.

She is currently a senior research associate at the Univeristy of Bristol (UK), working on the ICON project (evaluating the effectiveness of an intervention to reduce the incidence of abusive head trauma in infants). Julie is also a senior research associate on a health-promoting pack inserts and dissuasive cigarettes study, in collaboration with the University of Stirling. She teaches sessionally at the University of Alberta (Canada).

Julie has over 20 years of clinical experience in hospital, outpatient, hospice, home and community settings in Australia, Canada, and China. She is a HCPC-registered occupational therapist (UK) and co-chair of the European Association fo Palliative Care Taskforce on Rehabilitative Palliative Care.