Meet the Team
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Dr Caroline Shulman
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More InfoCaroline Shulman is a clinician and researcher in Homeless and Inclusion Health. Past clinical experience includes being a GP in a homeless practice and clinical lead in a multidisciplinary hospital-based homelessness team. During the pandemic, she was primary care advisor to the pan London ‘Everyone In’ strategy, facilitating health in-reach and multidisciplinary support for people experiencing homelessness who were placed into hotels.
Caroline is honorary senior lecturer at UCL within the Marie Curie Palliative Care research Department and is a senior clinical research fellow at the inclusion health charity Pathway. The primary focus of her research has been to improve services and support for people affected by homelessness by identifying and highlighting unmet needs, enabling the development of recommendations and interventions. This has been focused on improving recognition of palliative care needs and frailty as well as interventions to improve support for people experiencing homelessness with advanced ill health.
Additional work includes a large hospital in-patient audit which identified reasons for delayed discharge and what was needed for safe appropriate discharge; a survey of the health care and support needs of people living in hostels and an evaluation of the pan London substance misuse services for people experiencing homelessness. Caroline has produced a short film ‘Less?’ which shares moving stories from people with lived experience of homelessness, which she hopes will support more compassion within services. Prior to working in Homeless Healthcare, Caroline was a Senior Lecturer at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, addressing malaria and maternal health in Africa.
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Dr Briony Hudson
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More InfoBriony Hudson is a Principal Research Fellow at UCL and Associate Director of Internal Research at Marie Curie. She is a health psychologist and academic by background. Her research has explored issues of equity in end of life experiences, in particular around improving access to care and quality of life for people experiencing homelessness. She has led the development of the TIFFIN recommendations which have explored how to involve people with lived expreience of homelessness in palliative and end of life care research.
She has been the principal investigator on two NIHR funded projects around different aspects of palliative care for people experiencing homelessness.
Her other research has focused on co production and the involvement of historically marginalised groups in relation to palliative and end of life care. She also co led the refresh of the James Lind Alliance Palliative and End of Life Care Priority Setting Partnership which will inform the future research agenda in this field.
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Prof Kate Flemming PhD
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More InfoRN – Professor of Hospice Practice and Evidence Synthesis
Prof Kate Flemming is an experienced academic and nurse, internationally known for her leading research and service innovation in palliative care nursing. Kate is Head of Department for the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York. Kate’s research programme focuses on complex interventions including patient and carer experience of palliative care across different service models, disease types and morbidities. A key area of her work is around equity of access to palliative care services, in particular people who are homeless or vulnerably housed. This work is closely integrated with her methodological expertise in qualitative evidence synthesis; she is a co-convenor of the Cochrane Qualitative and Implementation Methods Group.
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Jodie Crooks
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More InfoJodie Crooks is the qualitaitve research manager at Marie Curie. Jodie was involved in the development of the TIFFIN recommendations and has led research around death cafes for people expriencing homelessness. Jodie is a co investigator and project lead for the SWAP in the IMPROVE project
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Sam Dorney-Smith
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More InfoSam is a Queen’s Nurse, Professional Nurse Advocate and Practice Nurse Specialist Practitioner. Having started her career in General Medicine and A&E, she has been working with people experiencing homelessness and other inclusion health groups since 2004. This included managing a nurse outreach team working in hostels and day centres in Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham, and setting up the Pathway inpatient services for homeless people in Guys & St Thomas’, King’s College and the South London and Maudsley hospitals.
Following this, Sam worked as Senior Nursing Fellow and Nursing Practice Lead for Pathway, supporting clinical practice and quality improvement in the Pathway Partnership Programme nationally. She also worked part time as the Homeless and Inclusion Health Network Lead at the Queen’s Nursing Institute, and part later with Doctors of the World as a Street Outreach Nurse in the City of London. She now works on the IMPROVE project at UCL, focused on improving end-of-life care for people experiencing homelessness.
She remains connected to Pathway as a Pathway Fellow and has interests in safeguarding and mental capacity, intermediate and step-down care, inclusion health data and inclusion health education. She also recently led a 15-month national project looking at improving care for people experiencing homelessness with diabetes. Sam has had several journal articles published, sat on numerous homeless health related steering groups, and was previously seconded to the Department of Health. there) and is the current Secretary of the London Network of Nurses and Midwives Homelessness Group.
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Katie Flanagan
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More InfoKatie Flanagan is a PhD student in the Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department at University College London, within the Division of Psychiatry. Her research investigates how virtual reality technology can be used in hospice care to support patients’ wellbeing, building on her broader interests in healthcare innovation and end‑of‑life care for people with neurological conditions and dementia.
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Julian Daley
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More InfoJulian has been supporting this work on palliative care and homelessness with his insights and experience for a number of years. Prior to working with us, he had experienced sreet homelessness and addiction, following personal tragedy and trauma. After coming off the street Julian started working with the inclusion health charity Pathway, as a care navigator in a Hospital team, which he did for 5 years. It was during this time that he began working to support this work with Caroline and Briony. Julian has gone on to work with a number of other organisations and has developed a wide experience of supporting people within drug services, probation and in homeless outreach. Julian also appears in the film Less?
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Gareth Davies
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More InfoI’m Gareth. I’m now 10 years in recovery. I started doing involvement / participation work in 2019 with Pathway and Revolving Doors – particularly around the criminal justice system and homeless health. I also did a specific piece of work looking at the potential role for Death Cafes in homeless hostels. In August 2025 I applied for a Grow traineeship with Shelter and I am currently training as a Housing Rights worker. In December I applied for a lived experienced coordinator position with Phoenix Futures and got offered the role. I will start early in 2026.
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Mandy Pattinson
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More InfoMandy is the Pathway Lived Experience Programme Manager, supporting and enabling the voices of lived experience to be heard, in implementing changes needed.
As part of the IMPROVE Homelessness and Palliative Care Research Project, Mandy has the absolute pleasure of supporting our lived experience group to be included in conversations to help shape this project.
Mandy has worked in the area of homelessness for many years, drawing on her knowledge and personal experiences, in the hope that all will have an equal form of healthcare
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Pete Bull
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More InfoPete has been a volunteer for Pathway Lived Experience Programme for many years, influencing change around Homelessness and Health.
Pete has been supporting the Palliative Care Project and has certainly been a vital part of how impactful the project is. Pete has been involved in many projects, events, steering groups, conferences, training delivery and public speaking, not just for Pathway but other homeless charities including Revolving Doors. Pete is an inspiration with his passion and drive in helping services do better. He recently attended a huge event at Westminster’s APPG for Ending Homelessness; Pete’s remarks were certainly the highlight of the event.
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Joanne
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More InfoJoanne has been supporting the work of the Palliative Care Project throughout and has been pivotal in shaping the project.
Joanne is a part of the Pathway Lived Experience programme, volunteering her knowledge, skills and experience to help shape things for the better around Homelessness and Health.
Joanne has volunteered for a few other charities, and this work includes research, conferences, training, tackling policy at Government level and a whole variety of projects. Joanne was a vital part of the recent very successful Diabetes project; her views helped shape outcomes for the better for those Homeless with Diabetes.
A National Campaign ran by Amnesty around Homelessness, Joannes words were projected on to famous landmarks in the Country, Houses of Parliament being one.
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Sahar
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More InfoSahar is a volunteer for the Pathway Lived Experience Programme and volunteers for Cris and others tackling Homelessness and Health.
Sahar has been supporting the research project into Palliative Care; the contribution has been vital in giving depth to the project through a lived experience perspective.
Sahar has worked on a variety of engagements with passion and drive to help change things for the better. These include the massively impactful Diabetes Project, Amnesty’s National Campaign on Homelessness, projects, training, conferences, public speaking to name but a few. Sahars work is as vast as is her knowledge and her passion for change.