Dr Emma Clare is CEO of End of Life Doula UK and Vice Chair of the National End-of-Life Care Coalition. A Chartered Psychologist and practising end of life doula in training, Emma holds a PhD and MSc in health psychology, focusing on death competency in healthcare professionals and the influence of death anxiety on advance planning. She is a founding member of the End of Life Doula International Research Group, which works to strengthen global understanding of the doula role.

Emma’s career to date has included work across NHS mental health services, looked after children’s services, and autism and learning disability settings. This experience shapes her interest in how death and dying are navigated by people with a diverse range of needs and experiences, and how support at the end-of-life can better reflect that. She recently founded Death Wired Differently – an organisation focused on improving end-of-life care and advocacy for neurodivergent people.

Based in York, Emma is committed to bringing conversations and care around dying out of purely medical environments and back into compassionate communities to enhance quality of life at the end of life.

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