Ben is a clinical-academic community nurse. He is Deputy Theme Lead for NIHR ARC East of England’s Palliative and End of Life Care theme. Ben is a Wellcome Post-Doctoral Fellow and an Honorary Nurse Consultant in Palliative Care.
Ben leads a programme of interdisciplinary research focused on improving dignified dying and end-of-life symptom control care at home. His research includes the voices and experiences of patients, families and under-served communities. Ben’s research draws on engineering design, patient safety and social science disciplines. Ben’s first steps into research were through his Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) Fellowship.
Ben is based in the Cambridge Palliative & End of Life Research Group (PELiCam), Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2022.
In 2023, Ben was announced as one of the 75 nurses and midwives whose work has had an especially significant impact on the NHS since its creation. Ben was awarded the RCGP and Society for Academic Primary Care Outstanding Early Career Researcher Award 2024 and the European Association for Palliative Care Early Researcher Award 2023, in recognition of his exceptional contributions to primary care and palliative care research.
Ben co-founded and leads the UK-wide QNI Community Nursing Research Forum, with over 900 members, strengthening nursing research capacity, leadership and evidence-based practice in the community. He is supporting several early-career researchers and is passionate about the value of interdisciplinary applied research and public engagement.
Ben is open to approaches to collaborate and supervise ARC Fellows, University of Cambridge MPhil and PhD student projects within his fields of interests.
Find more information about Ben's publications and research on ORCID
Email: bb527@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Twitter / X: @Ben_Bowers__