Dr Jackie Robinson is an Associate Professor and member of the Te Arai End of Life and Palliative Care Research Group in the School of Nursing at the University of Auckland. Jackie is a Nurse Practitioner with over 25 years’ experience in palliative care working in the acute hospital setting and more recently in residential aged care settings. She has contributed to Ministry of Health policy work and sits on the NZ Ministry of Health’s Support and Consultation for End of Life in NZ group and the Inequity in Palliative Care Working Group. Jackie has published extensively in her area of research which focuses on equity and social justice in palliative and end of life care.

Stella is of Ngāi Tūhoe, Whakatōhea, Te Whanau-a-Apanui and Ngāti Whakaue descent; she is a kairangahau/Māori researcher and PhD candidate at Auckland University of Technology. Stella enjoys the hands-on aspects of research; she has presented at national and international hui and published several technical reports and journal articles. Stella works on projects with the School of Nursing, University of Auckland and is a founding member of the Te Arai Palliative Care and End of Life Research Group. Some of the projects she has explored recently focused on deprivation at the end of life for those in the Eastern Bay of Plenty and Auckland City Mission. Stella has a particular interest in this area of research, having provided care for both of her parents before their passing.

Maria Te Huia (DHSc candidate) is a lecturer at Auckland University of Technology, School of Nursing, in the postgraduate and undergraduate programs. She has been a registered nurse for more than 30 years, working in Germany, Switzerland and Aotearoa New Zealand. Her professional background includes nursing in acute hospital settings, community nursing in mental health and rehabilitation, and offering anthroposophic nursing therapies in private practice. Maria's professional portfolio includes education and experience in anthroposophic nursing, reflexology and Rongoā Māori. Maria has worked in nursing education since 2011 and has completed her Doctoral thesis exploring the practice of anthroposophically educated registered nurses in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Dr Katherine Cooper has 28 years of experience in nursing, education, and research, with a particular focus on spirituality in healthcare. Throughout her nursing, teaching, and research career, she has emphasised the importance of spirituality in patient care. She has established a research theme of spirituality in nursing and healthcare. Her spirituality research has focused on areas such as undergraduate nursing education, discourses of spirituality in nursing, suicidality, chronic illness, and the implementation of a spiritual wellbeing program on health care and ancillary workers in an acute care hospital. She has also established a multidisciplinary and cross institutional Spirituality in Healthcare Community of Practice for academics and health professionals and has 8 articles published in peer reviewed journals.

Andrea Thomson is a registered nurse with a diverse background of experience in primary and secondary care in New Zealand, England and Scotland. Andrea brings this to her current role in undergraduate education. Andrea has a strong belief in empowering people through knowledge, skills and resources to achieve better health outcomes and this led to her research topic. Andrea has completed a Master of Health Science (Nursing).