Research into Practice Conference 2026

About the conference

When: Week commencing Monday 23 February
Where: Online
Theme: The 2026 Marie Curie Research into Practice Conference will focus on some of the top 24 Priorities recently identified and prioritised by people with lived and professional experience in the refresh of the Palliative and end of life care Priority Setting Partnership with the James Lind Alliance.

Following the success of Marie Curie’s previous online conferences, with last year’s attracting over 2,100 registrations from 44 countries, our conference in 2026 will take place online again, and be free for all to attend.

Aims of the conference

The conference aims to bring together experts to ensure that evidence is widely disseminated to help close the gap in end of life care by improving the care and support people at the end of life, and the people who care for them and their carers, receive.

To do this, we will showcase the latest research and its potential translation into policy and practice, with a wide audience of practitioners, researchers, policy makers and anyone else with experience of, and interest in, palliative and end of life care.

We are also keen to share the latest examples of service innovation, evaluation and improvement. This supports Marie Curie in our vision to improve end of life care for all.

Who can attend?

We continue to keep the conference free and open for all to attend. This supports our aim to make research and evidence accessible to everyone to support impact on practice and policy.

We welcome anyone with an interest in improving palliative and end of life care for all. Registrations for the conference open later in the year. If you would like to know what to expect, you can watch all our previous conference recordings.

Any questions?

If you have any questions about our conference, please email research.info@mariecurie.org.uk.