Centre for Dementia Research

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responding to a national and international health priority

Dementia is a national and international health priority. The number of people living with dementia is set to increase as the population ages.

Leeds Beckett’s Centre for Dementia Research facilitates a cross-disciplinary research community. It supports the conduct of applied dementia research leading to improvements in the lives of people at risk of developing or living with dementia, and those providing care and support to them. The centre has a wide network of collaborations and a portfolio of internationally recognised dementia research across four themes:

Transforming dementia education and training
Enhancing brain health, dementia assessment and post-diagnostic support
Advancing healthcare for people living with dementia
Improving social care and community services for people living with dementia

Transforming the lives of people living with dementia.

The Centre’s activity is underpinned by a commitment to equity of access in research participation, services and support. This commitment is a driving factor in promoting the engagement and involvement of populations who have traditionally been marginalised.

People living with a diagnosis of dementia and those who support them, including friends and family members and those working in professional roles, have a wealth of expertise. The involvement of people with lived experience is a foundation of all of our research and we have particular expertise in creative methods and inclusive co-production approaches.

In addition to the Centre's applied research, the School of health research portfolio also includes biomedical sciences research, with some staff members involved in dementia-related research.

Our areas of research

Transforming dementia education and training

Our research has changed national and international policy and practices and set benchmark quality standards in the design, delivery and implementation of dementia education and training for health and social care staff.

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Dementia assessment, diagnosis and post-diagnostic support

Our research has influenced the design and delivery of dementia assessment and diagnostic services and has shaped the dementia research and brain health agenda.

Dementia and acute hospitals

Our research has driven guidance development and led to advances in services and support for people living with dementia who are using healthcare services.

Dementia and social care

Our research is helping to shape innovative, inclusive, and collaborative social care practices and community support and increasing research capacity and engagement in social care and community settings.

Affected by dementia?

Join our lived experience research advisory group.

Share your experiences of dementia, as a diagnosed person or as a carer:

Present with us at conferences
Be involved in what we should be researching
Become an advisor for a study

No previous experience is needed.

To take part regularly, you should be able to join online meetings and communicate by email, either independently or with support.

We also recognise that not everyone wishes to or is able to take part in this way. Alongside our advisory group, we regularly seek the views of people affected by dementia through consultations in care homes, community groups and other settings where our research takes place, ensuring a wide range of experiences help shape our work.

Your time and reasonable expenses will be reimbursed.

If you are interested in being involved in our work or want to know more please contact Nicky Taylor by email at nicky.taylor@leedsbeckett.ac.uk.

Dr Chloe Bradwell + 1 more

Best practice in intergenerational activities for care home residents living with dementia and nursery-age children

Professor Claire Surr

Learning to Care in Care Homes study

Dr Rachael Kelley + 1 more

Improving hospital outpatient care for people living with dementia

Our team

Professor Claire Surr

Professor / School of Health

Professor Claire Surr is Director of the Centre for Dementia Research. Her research addresses care and support for people living with dementia and those who care for them with a focus on social care and workforce education and training.
Dr Chloe Bradwell

Research Fellow / School of Health

Dr Chloe Bradwell is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Dementia Research. Her work focuses on integrating creativity into daily dementia care and fostering community connections for care home residents through co-creation.
Dr Rachael Kelley

Reader / School of Health

Rachael is a Reader in Dementia Research and qualified mental health nurse. Her research focuses on improving care for people living with dementia and their families, predominantly in healthcare settings. She has expertise in qualitative and quantitative research, particularly ethnography.
Dr Laura Booi

Senior Research Fellow / School of Health

Dr Booi is a social gerontologist focused on research and advocacy relating to brain health equity and dementia, globally and locally.
Dr Sarah Smith

Professor / School of Health

Sarah's research concerns understanding the cognitive changes people with different types of dementia may experience, for example changes in ability to remember parts of your personal history or remember to do something in the future. Investigating everyday changes that people experience in their thinking abilities assist researchers to develop individualised approaches to diagnosis, as well as providing tailored post diagnostic support that respects the different challenges that people living with dementia experience.
Dr Nicky Taylor

Research Fellow / School of Health

Nicky is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Dementia Research. Her work supports and amplifies voices of people with dementia through co-production, by sensitively sharing power and learning together, whether co-designing services or sharing stories of life with dementia.
Marie Janes

Research Fellow / School of Health
Dr Emma Hooper

Research Fellow / School of Health

Emma Hooper is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Dementia Research at Leeds Beckett University. She is working on the NIHR-funded Effective Workplace Learning Environments in Care Homes (Learning to Care in Care Homes) study which is centred on how staff working in care homes learn to provide the best care for their residents.
Dr Nick Newman

Research Officer / School of Health
Stefanny Guerra

Research Assistant / School of Health

Support and development for early career researchers

We support people who are at various stages of their research careers. Read more about our PhD students, and support for individuals who are pre- and post-doctorate in their academic careers.

Read more about our current PhD students

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We are one of five institutions alongside Queen Mary University London, UCL, LSE and The University of Plymouth who form the Alzheimer’s Society doctoral training centre for integrated care (iCare DTC). The iCare DTC, led by Prof Nathan Davies and Prof Claudia Cooper at Queen Mary University London, will fund 29 students to undertake PhDs related to independence and choice, managing complexity of dementia and multiple long-term conditions, under-served communities and end-of-life care. DTC students will be the next generation of outstanding dementia research leaders.