Evangelia Papavasiliou is a Marie Curie PhD Training Fellow in EUROIMPACT and her research aims to evaluate the practice of palliative sedation until death, also called terminal sedation when food and fluid are forgone, in different European countries. Recent studies have shown that the prevalence of this end-of-life decision has grown substantially in the past decades, in contrast to the empirical information about it. Research into how, why, where and by whom it is practiced is high on the agenda of palliative care research. Evie will use several retrospective and prospective quantitative and qualitative data sets that have been or are being gathered across Europe eg. questionnaires from and interviews with physicians and nurses, studies in the nursing home setting. Evie works at Lancaster University, International Observatory on End-of-Life Care, Lancaster, UK and will travel to the End-of-Life Care Research Group in Brussels, Belgium, for 6 months.