Listen to the fourth 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 where next for Advance Care Planning? Provocation and PolicyOur 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 co-hostDr Libby Sallnow. Libby is an Associate Professor and Head of Department of the Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department at University College London. She also works as a palliative medicine physician in the community. For the podcast recording, Libby was joined by three panellists. On the panel were Dr Chetna Malhotra (Associate Professor and Research Director at Lian Centre for Palliative Care in Singapore), Dr Tom Knight (Trainee acute physician and academic clinical lecturer at the University of Manchester) and Dr Maddy French (Senior Research Fellow in Palliative Care and Lecturer in Palliative Care at Lancaster University). We were also joined by a large online audience who contributed their thoughts, questions, and experiences in the chat box during the conference. Recordings from Open Thanatology events are available on the Open Thanatology ORDO repository here.

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