Chloe Bradwell

Dr Chloé Bradwell is a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant in the Centre for Dementia Research. She uses the arts to connect people living in dementia care to their local community and challenges stigma associated with the disease through co-creation. 

Chloé has been working with people living with dementia for almost a decade and her research builds on her background as a wellbeing manager in dementia care. She is an Associate Artist at Entelechy Arts and uses circus, drama, dance and visual arts to collaborate with care home residents in the present moment. Her work places a particular emphasis on people within the later stages of the disease, who are often bed-bound or unable to communicate verbally.

Chloé has been involved in major research projects including IDEAL, the largest study of living well with dementia in Great Britain and the Care Aesthetic Research Exploration, a multidisciplinary project exploring how sensory and embodied practices of care can improve care services and change the quality of socially engaged arts practices.

Chloé's ‘mini-theatres’ method have been developed at an international scale. These whimsical and sensorial cards created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic aim to engage people living with dementia through both craft making and creative storytelling.