(How) does the public engage with Advance Care Planning?

Listen to the third episode of this academic year’s Open Thanatology Talks! Podcast series. Recorded during The Open Thanatology and University College London (UCL) Marie Curie Palliative Care Department’s joint conferenceon the 25th June 2025, this episode features a panel discussion around the question of (how) does the public engage with Advance Care Planning?Our regular podcast hosts, Dr Joanne Jordan (Research Fellow and co-chair for Open Thanatology) and Professor Erica Borgstrom (Professor of Medical Anthropology and co-chair for Open Thanatology) were joined by fourpanellists. On the panel were Joanna de Sousa (Lecturer in Palliative Care Nursing at King’s College, London), LisaGraham Wisener (Reader in Health Psychology inthe School of Psychology at Queens University, Belfast) , Nancy Preston (Professor of Supportive and Palliative Careand Co-director of the International Observatory on End of Life Care at Lancaster University) and RekhaVijayshankar (Palliative Care Nurse, Churchill fellow and visiting fellow at both The Open University and UCL). We were also joined by a large online audience who contributed their thoughts, questions, and experiences in the chat box. The full webinar recording is available on the Open Thanatology ORDO repository here. You can find out more about Open Thanatology here and you can join our news mailing list to hear about new episodes, events, new publications, and much more here. You can also follow OpenThanatology on Bluesky here.