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Post-diagnostic dementia support (Dementia PersonAlised Care Team); advance care planning (health/social care needs) for people with dementia in the context of uncertain trajectories

AQUEDUCT (Achieving Quality and Effectiveness in Dementia Using Crisis Teams) is a research project that aims to develop a resource kit for dementia crisis trials and perform an RCT to investigate if the resource kit has better outcomes in terms of hospital admissions, quality of life and costs. The project is sponsored by Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and works with crisis teams in dementia care to investigate whether the use of a Resource Kit helps prevent hospital admissions.

Personalising and evaluating technological psychosocial interventions (FindMyApps, STAR Online) for people with dementia and their (in)formal caregivers.

My research uses virtual (computer-animated) nature environments to trigger conversations. This way we hope to improve social wellbeing among older adults and people with dementia.

Since April, I have been involved with the Palliative and End of Life Care taskforce, researching assisted dying legislation around the world and access among PLwD. I am also involved in an assistive technology in the workplace project with Arlene Astell and am a PhD Researcher within Northumbria University's Citizen-centred Artificial Intelligence CDT. While I am still building my proposal, it will likely centre around dementia, AI, and end-of-life decision making.

My areas of expertise include Dementia and Poetry, Health Humanities and Critical Reading of Dementia Texts from Global South and North, Arts-based and Psychosocial Interventions and Cultural Diversity among Persons with Dementia and their Carers among the BAME communities in the UK.