Jonathan Mayes

Friday 3rd October 2025 – an auspicious day: the announcement, at the Mother Church of the Anglican Communion of Sarah Mullally’s appointment as the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury. As it happens, this was also the same destination and date I had long planned for my cycling pilgrimage, visiting all of the cathedrals and churches in England and Wales who have received funding from Cathedral Music Trust.

Abstract Objectives End-of-life and bereavement care support services differ in critical care and inpatient hospice settings. There are limited population-level data comparing deaths in these two locations. We aimed to compare the characteristics of people who die in critical care units and in hospices, identify factors associated with place of death and report 12-year trends in Scotland. Methods We undertook a cohort study of decedents aged ≥16 years in Scotland (2005–2017).

2023 saw the launch of a new RDA community activity, the Community Cross-fertilisation workshops. This has been a significant grass roots endeavour over the last 12 months, covering a diversity of research data-related topics of interest to the global RDA community.