Donna Wakefield

I’ve previously carved “reviewer 2” and “desk rejection” 🎃

Happy #Halloween - or #EAPC2026 deadline day to all who celebrate 🎉

🎃 Every year I create academic themed pumpkins: this year I’ve carved lungs in pumpkin 1 🫁 (dedicated to my research on #inequalities in #lung disease)
& pumpkin 2 describes what I’ve been working on for the past 2 weeks solid 💪🏻

Komorebi - the Japanese word for when the sunshine filters through the leaves 🍂 English lacks a single word for this beauty

I love the colourful autumn sky 🍂
Current view from the window 🪟📸
as I work on my #Qualitative study protocol 👩🏼‍💻 - in #Newcastle

📣New paper - Remote & rural communities face #inequalities in receiving specialist #PalliativeCare. Patients & staff found video-consultation to be a beneficial option (& preferable than a phone call ☎️ )

🌟 #OpenAccess in “PalliativeCare & Social Practice”📔

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A beautiful #heron, looking for fish 🐟

#Bird #Photography 📸
#BirdPhotography
#Nature 🌳

Happy #EuropeanDayOfLanguages!
Enjoyed practicing languages for my daughter’s homework and on theme wearing my Europe map top! 🗺️
My dream is to visit every country in Europe & pick up more languages on the way 🇮🇪 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇪🇺

#EuropeAddict #MapAddict

Not yet…..

(Because I am a new to it, PhD student and need to remember. If it was my full time job then I might not do that!)

In my stata do-file I comment on all of the code as I go. There is more explanation than actual code happening 😆

Understanding Mesothelioma: The Experiences and Care Needs of People with Mesothelioma and their Families This practical text highlights the lived experience of mesothelioma. Following the patient journey and underpinned by the evidence, it explores what good care for mesothelioma looks like. Mesothelioma...

⭐We have just published our new book 'Understanding Mesothelioma' ⭐

Highlighting the lived experience of meso, and underpinned by robust research, this book helps us understand what good care for meso looks like.

www.routledge.com/Understandin...

Great day presenting & learning at the North of England #Mesothelioma 🫁 Educational update at the beautiful Beamish Hall Hotel, #Durham

And delighted to be welcomed as the only #PalliativeCare member of the North of England Thoracic society (yet!)
Very impressed with the badge! 🥰

Understanding Mesothelioma: The Experiences and Care Needs of People with Mesothelioma and their Families This practical text highlights the lived experience of mesothelioma. Following the patient journey and underpinned by the evidence, it explores what good care for mesothelioma looks like. Mesothelioma...

Available now as a physical book or ebook:
www.routledge.com/Understandin...

📣New textbook - out TODAY! 📕
“Understanding Mesothelioma: The Experiences & Care Needs of People with #Mesothelioma & their Families” 🫁
Really grateful to have the opportunity to contribute this essential resource 📚 @claregardiner.bsky.social
@mesouk.bsky.social @vsherbo.bsky.social

Link below

Really exciting to see 1️⃣6️⃣8️⃣ like-minded people logging in for the launch 🚀 of the
🆕 #PalliativeCare #Research Incubator

So many potential opportunities to connect with others, as working in a small field, spread geographically can sometimes feel isolating.

@pri-uk.bsky.social

We celebrated my nanna turning 90 years young! 🎂🍰💐🎁

Sunday #bird #photography
#Newcastle #Nature 📸 🌳

Snowy Egret, Heron, Snipe, Robin

(I think its called TJ Maxx in other countries maybe 🤔)

Me too! All stationery is from rummaging around in the reduced section of TKmaxx

If you’re going to do stats on a Saturday, at least liven it up with some sushi stationery (perfect post-it notes 🍣🗒️😄)

#Stata #Saturday #Data 📊👩🏼‍💻
#PhD -20 months down, 28 months to go

The #Kingfisher is a shy, elusive bird.
Small & extremely fast, making photographing it challenging.
It has been on my bucket list for FIVE YEARS….
Then today I saw him!
Majestic in blue and orange, perched on a reed.
It was a magical moment for me ♥️

#Nature #Bird #Photography #Newcastle 📷

I was dissatisfied that I missed a budgie and horse visiting the hospice last week!

Having a long walk through a field of bright yellow sunflowers is quite the mood booster 🌻🌻🌻🌻 🐝

#Nature #Photography #Durham 📸

Beautiful #Wildflowers 💐

If I ask my daughter if she’d like to help in our own garden…..its as if I’ve suggested child labour 🪏🪴

Yet she was super excited to rent an old jam jar & pair of scissors to trim a field of wild flowers ✂️🫙🌱😆

#Northumberland

a woman holding a can of pepsi and a glass of wine ALT: a woman holding a can of pepsi and a glass of wine

Diet Pepsi is far superior
Yet I find myself having to tolerate Diet Coke because its sold more widely (where I live anyway) 😑

Everyone gets a good laugh at my drawings

P is for pizza is good
We sometimes play Machi Koro but it takes 5 minutes to set up and thats longer than my child’s patience

At the minute the house is littered with half made lego sets and jigsaws as the attention span couldn’t last any longer

Six second scribble is good because thats the exact attention span that my 9 year old has 😆

Thanks for the list!

We play “Sushi Go” a lot
And also argue over “goat, cat, cheese, pizza” (or whatever the order is 😂)
We love “Six second scribble” and
“Herd Mentality”

We regularly play “Organ Attack”, which can end in tears over who stole each others organs 🤪

Happy #InternationalCatDay - perfect time to start reading “We’ll prescribe you a cat” 🐈 #BookSky #Books 📚

Proud to have been part of this great collaboration between @alicehousehospice.bsky.social,
Hart Gables LGBT & #Hartlepool college to create a 20 minute film, as part of training to improve LGBTQ+ inclusive #hospice care, esp for #trans people 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🥰

🎥 lnkd.in/grfJwT7x
Tackling #Inequalities