Professor Julia M Addington-Hall is Co-Director of the National 'Cancer Experiences' (CECo) Supportive and Palliative Care Research Collaborative in the UK, funded by the National Cancer Research Institute. She is Professor of End of Life Care in the School of Health Sciences, Southampton University, UK.
 
Dr. Addington-Hall has published more than 120 peer-reviewed research papers and held research grants totaling over 6,000,000 GBP. Her current research programmes include qualitative, mixed methods and cohort studies to understand the experience of people affected by cancer, life-limiting illness and at the end of life, with a particular focus on neglected groups (including older women with breast cancer, neurological conditions, renal disease, stroke and heart failure), rarer cancers (including pancreatic cancer and cancer of unknown primary), and family caregivers (including older caregivers, men as caregivers and communication within families.) She is also involved in the development of outcome measures in palliative and end of life care (including the development and validation of an after-death questionnaire for bereaved people (VOICES)), and in symptom experience in breast and in advanced cancer.

She is an editor of the journal 'Palliative Medicine', and a member of the editorial board of 'Journal of Pain and Symptom Control'.  She has lectured extensively in the UK and abroad.