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Professor Claire Surr

Professor

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 particular interest in social care, with a focus on care homes and the design, implementation and evaluation of interventions to support delivery of person-centred care. She is also involved in a team conducting a portfolio of work on the experiences and care of people who have both dementia and cancer.

Claire is internationally recognised for her research and academic leadership around dementia education and training for the health and social care workforce, having led a national study examining the factors associated with effective training design, delivery and implementation. The findings are embedded within UK and international governmental and practice guidance on dementia education and training and are being implemented in the design and delivery of dementia training by health and social care providers globally. She is the funding panel Chair for the Research Programme for Social Care, part of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Prior to this she has been a member of NIHR Research for Patient Benefit Yorkshire and the Humber, NIHR Research for Social Care and the Alzheimer’s Society funding panels.

Claire is a member of Nurturing Innovation in Care Home Excellence in Leeds (NICHE Leeds) a care home research initiative based on the ‘Living Lab’ model. NICHE Leeds is a partnership between academia (Universities of Leeds and Leeds Beckett) and care homes, which brings together practice and research expertise to identify and prioritise research questions and to work in partnership to research what might help.

Current Teaching

Claire's role includes the supervision of doctoral students and undertaking teaching in dementia and research methods across a range of university modules and subjects.

Research Interests

Claire is internationally recognised for her research on dementia workforce education and training, which has included development of gold standards for the design and delivery of dementia training. They have been adopted nationally and internationally within guidance and policy on this topic.

As an educator, Claire has been recognised for her innovative teaching and learning approaches and leadership. She is was awarded a prestigious National Teaching Fellowship in 2014 and is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, in recognition of her strategic leadership in the field.

Claire has spent her career undertaking research to support the delivery of person-centred care to people with dementia living in care homes. She is particularly interested in interventions to support care home staff in their role and methods for evaluating their impact, within what are complex environments for conducting research. Her research is contributing to improving care home care for people with dementia and the methods and approaches used to conduct research in care homes.

More recently, Claire been part of a Leeds Beckett team that have developed a portfolio of research about cancer care for people with dementia. Studies completed and ongoing cover the range of service settings in which cancer care may be provided and care across the cancer trajectory. This research is leading the field in this area of multiple-long terms conditions and has developed practice recommendations that are currently being implemented in NHS oncology departments and hospital sites.