{"id":9506,"date":"2026-04-07T11:51:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/?p=9506"},"modified":"2026-04-07T11:51:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:51:04","slug":"new-board-member-emma-wolverson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/?p=9506","title":{"rendered":"New board member: Emma Wolverson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am delighted to join the INTERDEM Board. I have been a member of INTERDEM since 2009, and in many ways, I feel I have grown up academically within this network. Early in my career, I had the privilege of working with founding members such as Esme Moniz\u2011Cook, whose generosity, curiosity, and commitment to psychosocial dementia research shaped so much of my own career. INTERDEM has always been more than a professional network to me\u2014it has been a place of genuine community, friendship, and inspiration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/interdem.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Emma-Wolverson-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/interdem.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Emma-Wolverson-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/interdem.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Emma-Wolverson-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/interdem.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Emma-Wolverson-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/interdem.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Emma-Wolverson-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/interdem.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Emma-Wolverson.jpg 1975w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Emma Wolverson <a href=\"mailto:Emma.Wolverson@uwl.ac.uk\">Emma.Wolverson@uwl.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the years, I have been proud to be an active and committed INTERDEM member, including establishing and co\u2011leading the Palliative and End\u2011of\u2011Life Care Taskforce. This work has shown me first\u2011hand the strength of INTERDEM\u2019s spirit: a warm and supportive culture that welcomes people at all career stages, values different disciplines, and embraces diverse ways of working. It is this openness and shared sense of purpose that makes INTERDEM special.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a clinical psychologist and Professor of Ageing and Dementia at the Geller Institute of Ageing and Memory, University of West London, my research focuses on moments when people with dementia and their families need increased support\u2014during crises, transitions, and at the end of life. Clinically, I have worked across the dementia care pathway, from memory clinics to spending the past fourteen years supporting people with more advanced dementia. This is a perspective I hope to bring to the Board, ensuring our work continues to include those with the most complex needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My Board role will focus on membership\u2014supporting engagement across our growing network, strengthening participation from under\u2011represented countries, and ensuring that colleagues at every career stage feel connected, represented, and supported. I am excited to contribute to the future of a network that has given me so much, and to help ensure INTERDEM remains a vibrant, inclusive, and energising home for psychosocial dementia research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am delighted to join the INTERDEM Board. I have been a member of INTERDEM since 2009, and in many ways, I feel I have grown up academically within this [&hellip;] ","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":8443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9508,"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9506\/revisions\/9508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}