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 living with dementia, and those providing care and support to them. The centre has membership from across the university and a portfolio of internationally recognised dementia research across six themes:

Dementia education and training
Dementia assessment diagnosis and post-diagnostic support
Dementia and social care
Dementia and acute hospitals
Dementia and comorbidity
Brain health, community support and engagement

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 marginalised populations.

We lead on the university’s commitment to become a dementia friendly organisation. We also support local and national awareness-raising activities such as Dementia Action Week.

In addition to the applied research activities, our research portfolio also includes biomedical sciences research.

Our areas of research

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.

Dementia assessment, diagnosis and post-diagnostic support

Our research is concerned with how services related to the assessment and diagnosis of dementia post-diagnostic are responsive to the needs of people with dementia and their families. We are particularly interested in understanding how services can be holistic and inclusive – and identifying innovative practice that supports timely and personalised diagnosis and care

Dementia and social care

Our social care research is focussed on ways in which social care providers can be supported to provide high quality person-centred care. We have particular expertise in care homes research and in social care intervention development, implementation and evaluation.

Dementia and acute hospitals

Our acute hospital-focused research responds to the need to improve experiences and outcomes of hospital care for people living with dementia. Our research ranges from exploratory work to identify current care experiences and how these might be improved through to the development and evaluation of interventions to improve general hospital care (including inpatient and outpatient services) for people with dementia.

Dementia and comorbidity

Our research recognises that dementia can bring additional complexity to managing other health-related conditions. Our comorbidity theme includes a portfolio of research on the care and support needs of people with cancer and dementia.

Brain health, community support and public engagement

Our work in brain health and public engagement includes both international ventures and local initiatives. The aim of this work is to promote brain health awareness in the community and to increase access to research participation amongst populations who are seldom-heard from.

Share your experience

Involving people living with dementia, their families and health care professionals is at the centre of our research and teaching. We work with people with experience of living with or supporting people with dementia, to ensure that the voice of those with lived experience of dementia is heard.

There are many ways to get involved, including:

Telling us what we should be researching
Joining our panel of experts to make sure we represent your views
Being an advisor for a research study
Sharing your experiences with students
Interviewing and assessing prospective students
Presenting with us at conferences

No previous experience is needed! We provide any training or support needed. People’s time and expenses are reimbursed. Anyone who needs support to attend is welcome to bring someone with them to activities and events they are involved with.

If you are interested in being involved in our work or want to know more please contact Sarah Smith on 0113 812 4665 or s.j.smith@leedsbeckett.ac.uk.

This video was developed in collaboration with the members of our expert by experience group on the DCM EPIC trial (link to the above DCM EPIC trial web-page) about what their involvement included and why it was so important to the research.

Professor Claire Surr

EPIC trial - enhancing person centred care in care homes

Two elderly people smiling at an active lifestyle workshop

Professor Claire Surr

'What works' in dementia education and training?

Child and older person in a kitchen with buttered toast on a plate

Professor Claire Surr

Cancer and Dementia in Hospitals Research (CANDEM)

our team

Professor Claire Surr

Professor / School Of Health

Professor Claire Surr is Professor of Dementia Studies and Director of the Centre for Dementia Research at Leeds Beckett University. Her research addresses care and support for people living with dementia and those who care for them. She has a particular interest in designing and implementing interventions and approaches to improving formal dementia care services and care - with a focus on care homes and general hospitals. Her work explores care experiences and the support needs of people with both cancer and dementia and interventions to support care home staff to deliver high quality dementia care.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Dr Sue Molesworth

Dementia UK

PhD Students

Read about our PhD students and the research being undertaken within the centre.

Professor Claire Surr of Dementia Studies

Transforming dementia care

Our goal is to help people with dementia and their families experience a better quality of life.

Professor Claire Surr Professor