Compassionate Communities and Palliative Care at Orkney International Science Festival 2016 HD

Dr Shahaduz Zaman talks about his research into compassionate communities and palliative care, followed by a panel discussion with Reverend Dr Hamilton Inbadas and Kate Jackson. This event took place at Kirkwall Town Hall during Orkney International Science Festival 2016. Dr Shahaduz Zaman is a renowned prose writer in his native Bangladesh, a medically-qualified doctor, anthropologist and global health expert. He is currently doing field research in the slums of Dhaka and in rural West Bengal, examining the concepts of compassionate communities and community approaches to the delivery of palliative care. Zaman is a member of the Glasgow End of Life Studies Group and is Research Fellow in our Wellcome Trust-funded project Global Interventions at the End of Life. Kate Jackson is founding editor of ehospice International. Kate is South African, and is based on Orkney. Reverend Dr Hamilton Inbadas is an ordained Church of South India minister, and currently associate priest at St John’s Scottish Episcopal Church in Dumfries. Currently working as Research Associate in the Global Interventions at the End of Life study, he is also a member of the Glasgow End of Life Studies Group. Hamilton began his career in the world of palliative care, giving pastoral care as a chaplain at the Christian Medical College in Velore, India. He is an expert in spirituality at the end of life, and has also studied theology, English literature, bioethics and journalism. www.glasgow.ac.uk/endoflifestudies