Dr Guy Peryer is Director of Education and Research for St Christopher’s Hospice in London. Guy’s research career at UEA began in 2009 and he has since held a range of posts in FMH, including as a Lecturer in Applied Health Sciences. In 2017, he joined the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration for the East of England’s Palliative and End of Life Care (ARC EoE PEoLC) theme group at UEA as a Research Fellow from which he has led an impactful research programme around compassionate communities, including a secondment with St Nicholas Hospice Care in Bury St Edmunds. Guy has also led a research group for UEA Health and Social Care Partners investigating methods to expand community involvement in palliative and end of life care. In 2019 Guy was awarded an NIHR Advanced Fellowship to research and mobilise death literacy knowledge across non-clinical community networks in the East of England. Guy is a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society, a Chartered Scientist with The Science Council, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.
Contact: G.Peryer@StChristophers.org.uk