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My main research interest for dementia. My PhD project is about factors on influence COVID-19 vaccination behaviour in people with young-onset dementia and their carers
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Psychoeducational interventions for care partners of persons living with dementia; Relationship quality between persons living with dementia and their care partners; Person-centred care of people with dementia living in long term care homes.
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My primary areas of expertise include dementia, neuroscience, higher education, and occupational therapy curriculum development. I am currently pursuing a part-time PhD in Dementia Studies at the University of Worcester. My research project focuses on identifying gaps in dementia education within occupational therapy curriculums across higher education institutions in the UK. I am also interested in research around sensory processing difficulties with people living with dementia and the impact on their activities and engagement.
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Dementia education
Equity, diversity, inclusion – supporting carers who are neurodiverse access information about their relatives and neurodiverse carers access accessible education
Learning disability / intellectual disability and dementia
Depression in nursing homes: implicit responses and deliberate antidepressant strategies
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Lecturer in Occupational Therapy
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How people affected by dementia share the diagnosis with others & the development of a website to support those who are fearful of sharing the diagnosis
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As part of QoLEAD, my project focusses on how to support the social connectedness of people with dementia and their network. Specifically, we focus on how dementia-related stigma is experienced and how this influences the social lives of people with dementia and their relatives.
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My main research project is gratitude exprienced by people living with dementia and informal caregivers, and my area of expertise is positive psychology and well-being of older adults
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My PhD-project focuses on pain management in people with dementia living in nursing homes. It emphasizes integrating residual capacity of self-reporting of pain and centering pain management around how people with dementia express their pain experiences. The project aims to explore the processes of pain management, identify the resources of people with dementia within these processes, and develop an intervention to structure pain management processes for people with dementia in nursing homes.
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Psychosocial health research, person-centered dementia care research, participatory research with people living with dementia, wayfinding and spatial orientation research, user-centered environment and architecture research, user experience in buildings, user's evaluations of buildings, spatial and architectural cognition research
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