Dr Ikumi Okamoto (DPhil)

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Contact details

Address

Street

Clinical Psychology
University of Edinburgh
Doorway 6, Medical School
Teviot Place

City
Edinburgh
Post code
ED8 9AG

Biography

Background

Ikumi is a qualitative researcher with a strong focus on palliative and end-of-life care. She obtained her Doctoral Degree in medical anthropology from the University of Oxford. Her doctoral thesis, "Journey from Life to Death: An Anthropological Study of Cancer Patients in Japan," is based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted over 11 months at a Palliative Care Unit in Japan.

Before joining the University of Edinburgh, Ikumi worked at the University of Cambridge as a member of the Palliative and End-of-Life Care in Cambridge (PELiCam) research group, and previously at the University of Southampton.

Research summary

  • Palliative care practices in the UK and Japan
  • Out-of-hours community palliative care services
  • Anthropological perspectives on illness, death, dying, and bereavement within diverse social, cultural, historical, and medical contexts
  • Role of virtual grief interventions in bereavement care
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