Professor Claudia Cooper
Name:
Claudia Cooper
Job Title:
Professor of Psychological Medicine and Centre Lead
Place of work / study:
Queen Mary University of London
Area of research:
Care interventions of people living with dementia, support for family carers, inequalities in dementia care
How is your work currently funded:
Alzheimer’s Society, NIHR/ESRC, Dunhill Medical Trust
Tell us a little about yourself:
I lead the Centre for Psychiatry and Mental Health. I moved to QMUL in 2022 after 17 years at UCL, where I am now and honorary professor in the Division of Psychiatry. I am a consultant old age psychiatrist in East London NHS Foundation Trust memory services.
I lead the Alzheimer’s Society Centre of Excellence for Independence at home, in which we are developing interventions to support people living with dementia at home; and the NIHR/ESRC APPLE-Tree programme (Active Prevention in People at risk of dementia:Lifestyle,bEhaviour change/Technology to REducE cognitive decline), investigating how lifestyle and behavioural change can prevent dementia in older people.
I supervise PhD students on topics related to ageing and dementia, funded by ESRC, Alzheimer’s Society [1], Dementia UK, NIHR, and the UCL Dawes Centre for future crime. I am a member of the UK Cabinet Office Trial Advice Panel, which advises and supports evaluations of national government programmes and policies; and the Royal College of Psychiatrist’s psychopharmacology committee.
Why did you choose to work in dementia?
Experiences as a junior doctor brought me into the dementia research area. I have since had lived experience caring for my grandmother