Dr Zana Bayley

Faculty of Social Sciences

Project Officer for IMPACT

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Dr Zana Bayley
Faculty of Social Sciences
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
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Dr Zana Bayley completed her PhD focused on hospice care in 2021 and currently works as a project officer with IMPACT (Improving Adult Care Together) based within CIRCLE at Sheffield University. 

Zana is a qualitative researcher with a background in health and social care. Before her academic career she worked in various roles including mental capacity advocacy, disability equality, and education consultancy. Zana has a passion for education and lifelong learning, and has successfully created and delivered training courses, workshops, and online and printed resources/material. 

Zana is committed to addressing inequity of care, particularly for marginalised populations and at critical times such as end of life. In her previous research project she was responsible for the co-production of end-of-life care resources with under-researched care workers. Zana has experience in working on research projects concerned with palliative care including hospice care, deprescribing medication when approaching end of life, and home-based holistic palliative care.

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Research interests
  • Inequity of health and social care access and provision
  • Palliative care
  • Disability and life-limiting conditions
  • Education and training
  • Qualitative methodologies