Dr Samuel Quinn

  • Research Associate, Affiliate (School of Social & Environmental Sustainability)

Biography

Dr Sam Quinn joined the End-of-Life Studies group in July 2021. He works as Research Associate on the Dying in the Margins project. This participatory visual-methods project aims to investigate the experiences of people living with a life-limiting condition while experiencing financial hardship. There are two main phases to the study:

  • Photovoice with people with a life-limiting diagnosis who are experiencing financial hardship
  • Digital stories with bereaved carers and relatives of people who had a life-limiting diagnosis and were experiencing financial challenges.

Before joining the University of Glasgow, Sam completed his Doctoral research on the end-of-life experiences of people with Down syndrome and Dementia in December 2019. This ethnographic work explored the experiences of people living and working in a group home for people with learning disabilities and dementia. Sam has worked on a range of qualitative research projects encompassing quality improvement in the third sector, frontline health staff experiences of working during COVID-19, and a project to facilitate discussions about risk with forensic inpatients with a learning disability.

Research interests

  • End of life experiences of marginalised groups
  • Dementia and ageing
  • End of life and bereavement experiences of people with a learning disability
  • Visual Methods and Ethnographic Methods

Publications

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Number of items: 11.

2025

Quinn, Sam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6266-0819 and Richards, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3029-5132 (2025) Dying in the margins: a longitudinal visual methods study to uncover the reasons for unequal access to home dying for people experiencing financial hardship and deprivation in Scotland, UK – a case study. In: Clark, David and Samuels, Annemarie (eds.) Research Handbook on End of Life Care and Society. Edward Elgar. (Accepted for Publication)

Scott, Matilde, Quinn, Sam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6266-0819 and Chambers, Stephanie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9607-6242 (2025) Growing around grief: the lived experience of parentally-bereaved young people in the UK. Mortality, (doi: 10.1080/13576275.2025.2481279) (Early Online Publication)

2024

Quinn, Sam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6266-0819 and Richards, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3029-5132 (2024) The cost of dying exhibition: public, professional and political reactions to a visual exhibition depicting experiences of poverty at the end of life. Medical Humanities, (doi: 10.1136/medhum-2024-012950) (Early Online Publication)

Richards, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3029-5132, Quinn, Sam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6266-0819, Carduff, Emma and Gott, Merryn (2024) Dying in the margins: Experiences of dying at home for people living with financial hardship and deprivation. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, 5, 100414. (doi: 10.1016/j.ssmqr.2024.100414)

Quinn, Sam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6266-0819, Ferguson, Libby, Read, Derek and Richards, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3029-5132 (2024) “The Great Escape”: how an incident of elopement gave rise to trauma informed palliative care for a patient experiencing multiple disadvantage. BMC Palliative Care, 23(1), 61. (doi: 10.1186/s12904-024-01374-x) (PMID:38419002) (PMCID:PMC10900545)

2023

Richards, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3029-5132 and Quinn, Samuel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6266-0819 (2023) Money Matters at the End of Life: Having Open Conversations About Financial Hardship at the End of Life. Other. University of Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.331620).

Richards, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3029-5132, Quinn, Sam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6266-0819, Mitchell, Margaret, Carduff, Emma and Gott, Merryn (2023) The viability and appropriateness of using visual methods in end of life research to foreground the experiences of people affected by financial hardship and deprivation. Palliative Medicine, 37(4), pp. 627-637. (doi: 10.1177/02692163221146590) (PMID:36609208)

Quinn, Sam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6266-0819, Richards, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3029-5132 and Gott, Merryn (2023) Dying at home for people experiencing financial hardship and deprivation: how health and social care professionals recognise and reflect on patients’ circumstances. Palliative Care and Social Practice, 17, p. 26323524231164162. (doi: 10.1177/26323524231164162) (PMID:37025502) (PMCID:PMC10071150)

Richards, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3029-5132, Quinn, Sam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6266-0819, Gott, Merryn, Carduff, Emma, Mitchell, Margaret and Dooley, Oona (2023) The Cost of Dying. [Exhibitions]

Richards, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3029-5132, Quinn, Samuel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6266-0819, Carduff, Emma, Mitchell, Margaret and Gott, Merryn (2023) Dying in the Margins Exhibition Postcards Full Set. [Artefact]

Richards, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3029-5132, Quinn, Samuel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6266-0819, Gott, Merryn, Carduff, Emma, Mitchell, Margaret and Dooley, Oona (2023) Dying in the Margins: The Cost of Dying Exhibition Guide. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.331617) [Exhibitions]

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 17:53:29 2025 BST.
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Number of items: 12.

Articles

Scott, Matilde, Quinn, Sam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6266-0819 and Chambers, Stephanie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9607-6242 (2025) Growing around grief: the lived experience of parentally-bereaved young people in the UK. Mortality, (doi: 10.1080/13576275.2025.2481279) (Early Online Publication)

Quinn, Sam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6266-0819 and Richards, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3029-5132 (2024) The cost of dying exhibition: public, professional and political reactions to a visual exhibition depicting experiences of poverty at the end of life. Medical Humanities, (doi: 10.1136/medhum-2024-012950) (Early Online Publication)

Richards, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3029-5132, Quinn, Sam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6266-0819, Carduff, Emma and Gott, Merryn (2024) Dying in the margins: Experiences of dying at home for people living with financial hardship and deprivation. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, 5, 100414. (doi: 10.1016/j.ssmqr.2024.100414)

Quinn, Sam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6266-0819, Ferguson, Libby, Read, Derek and Richards, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3029-5132 (2024) “The Great Escape”: how an incident of elopement gave rise to trauma informed palliative care for a patient experiencing multiple disadvantage. BMC Palliative Care, 23(1), 61. (doi: 10.1186/s12904-024-01374-x) (PMID:38419002) (PMCID:PMC10900545)

Richards, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3029-5132, Quinn, Sam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6266-0819, Mitchell, Margaret, Carduff, Emma and Gott, Merryn (2023) The viability and appropriateness of using visual methods in end of life research to foreground the experiences of people affected by financial hardship and deprivation. Palliative Medicine, 37(4), pp. 627-637. (doi: 10.1177/02692163221146590) (PMID:36609208)

Quinn, Sam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6266-0819, Richards, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3029-5132 and Gott, Merryn (2023) Dying at home for people experiencing financial hardship and deprivation: how health and social care professionals recognise and reflect on patients’ circumstances. Palliative Care and Social Practice, 17, p. 26323524231164162. (doi: 10.1177/26323524231164162) (PMID:37025502) (PMCID:PMC10071150)

Book Sections

Quinn, Sam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6266-0819 and Richards, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3029-5132 (2025) Dying in the margins: a longitudinal visual methods study to uncover the reasons for unequal access to home dying for people experiencing financial hardship and deprivation in Scotland, UK – a case study. In: Clark, David and Samuels, Annemarie (eds.) Research Handbook on End of Life Care and Society. Edward Elgar. (Accepted for Publication)

Research Reports or Papers

Richards, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3029-5132 and Quinn, Samuel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6266-0819 (2023) Money Matters at the End of Life: Having Open Conversations About Financial Hardship at the End of Life. Other. University of Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.331620).

Artefact

Richards, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3029-5132, Quinn, Samuel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6266-0819, Carduff, Emma, Mitchell, Margaret and Gott, Merryn (2023) Dying in the Margins Exhibition Postcards Full Set. [Artefact]

Exhibitions

Richards, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3029-5132, Quinn, Sam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6266-0819, Gott, Merryn, Carduff, Emma, Mitchell, Margaret and Dooley, Oona (2023) The Cost of Dying. [Exhibitions]

Richards, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3029-5132, Quinn, Samuel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6266-0819, Gott, Merryn, Carduff, Emma, Mitchell, Margaret and Dooley, Oona (2023) Dying in the Margins: The Cost of Dying Exhibition Guide. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.331617) [Exhibitions]

Key Findings

Richards, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3029-5132, Quinn, Samuel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6266-0819, Carduff, Emma and Gott, Merryn Dying in the Margins Digital Stories Accompanying Toolkits Complete Collection. [Key Findings]

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 17:53:29 2025 BST.

Supervision

I have experience in supervising students at both undergraduate and Masters level. I currently supervise students on the Global Health MSc and Health and Social Sector Leadership MA courses. 


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