Dr Lucy Selman

Dr Lucy Selman is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, where she co-leads the Palliative and End of Life Care Research Group. Her research over the last 16 years has focussed on people’s experiences of serious illness, the end of life and bereavement, and how to improve care in these domains.

She is currently co-Principal Investigator (with Dr Emily Harrop) on a national study of bereavement during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK, funded by UK Research and Innovation, as well as conducting a fellowship funded by the National Institute of Health Research. Having experienced close bereavement herself, Lucy is committed to public engagement on the subjects of grief and loss.

She is the founder of Good Grief, a festival which launched in October 2020, and the ongoing Grief Channel: www.grief-channel.com.