The Centre for Spirituality of Care and Community
First Annual Roy Bradley Oration
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The inaugural oration on “Spirituality and Compassionate Communities” was delivered by Dr Bruce Rumbold, the Director of the Palliative Care Unit at Latrobe University, on Sunday May 19th, 2019, at St Philip’s Anglican Church Collingwood.
Social determinants of end-of-life experience, spiritual care, and community development, are the particular foci of his current work.
Bruce Rumbold is Director of the Palliative Care Unit at La Trobe University, Melbourne, where his responsibilities include coordinating health promoting palliative care and spiritual care, academic programs alongside developing research into public health approaches to end of life care.
His multidisciplinary interests are supported by postgraduate qualifications in physics, practical theology and health social science. Prior to joining La Trobe he was from 1986-2002 foundation professor of pastoral studies at Whitley College affiliated with the University of Divinity (formally Melbourne College of Divinity).
He is editor, with Mark Cobb (Sheffield) and Christina Puchalski (Washington DC) of the Oxford Textbook of Spirituality in Healthcare, published in 2012.