AUTHORS AND CONTACTS
Professor Martin Orrell, Director of the Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire health care NHS foundation trust
He is Editor of the Journal Aging & Mental Health, Chair of the UK Memory Services National Accreditation Programme, President of the European Association of Geriatric Psychiatry and a Board member of the European INTERDEM Network. He has supervised 6 PhD on CST for dementia, been awarded 7 major dementia care research grants totalling £17 million and publish over 300 academic papers
Professor Martin Orrell -E-mail: Martin Orrell
Professor Aimee Spector, Professor of Old Age Clinical Psychology Research, Department of Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology.
She developed CST as her PhD thesis and has been involved in numerous subsequent CST research studies including the evaluation of maintenance CST and individual CST. She is an author on all the UK and several international CST manuals and developed the CST training course and her personally trained around 3000 people in CST. She is a director of the international CST centre at UCL. Her research programme more broadly focuses on the development and evaluation of psychological therapies for dementia. She published 110 academic papers.
Professor Aimee Spector E-mail: Aimee Spector
Professor. Bob Woods, Professor of Old Age Psychology, University of Wales, Bangor
He is professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychology of older People at Bangor University’s Dementia Services Development Centre. He has published numerous books and academic papers in relation to old age psychology and dementia care and is an Alzheimer’s Society Ambassador.
Professor Bob Woods E-mail: Bob Woods
Associate Professor Vasiliki Orgeta, Dementia Research, Division of Psychiatry, University College London.
She is a senior Fellow of the Alzheimer’s Society and interested in emotional wellbeing of people with dementia and their family carers. Her research focuses on systematic reviews and meta-analyses of psychological and psychosocial interventions in dementia. She joined UCL since 2008 and has been involved in several randomised controlled trials developing and evaluating psychosocial interventions. She has published over 60 papers academic papers. She is the lead author of the Cochrane review on psychological treatments.
Dr Phuong Leung, Dementia Research, Division of Psychiatry, University College London.
She is a fellow dementia researcher and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her research focuses on systematic reviews, designing, developing and evaluating the effectiveness of cognitive and psychosocial interventions for people with dementia and their family carers. She has published over thirty academic papers in relation to cognitive and psychosocial interventions in dementia. She is now the founder of Individual Cognitive Stimulation Therapy Dementia Training (iCST) and Consultancy. She has been providing iCST education training nationally and internationally to family carers and health professionals.
Dr Phuong Leung E-mail: Phuong Leung
Dr Lauren Yates, Dementia Research, Department of Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology.
She was part of Professor Orrell’s research team from 209-2018. She completed her PhD at UCL in 2015 then held a postdoctoral role at Nottingham University. Having family affected by dementia, Laura decided the best way to put her experience to good use was to pursue a career in dementia care research, hoping to families like hers to seek support and to provide a better standard of care for carers and people with dementia. She recently returned to UCL to study towards a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. She has published 19 academic papers.
Dr Lauren Yates E-mail: Lauren Yates
Fara Hamidi, James Sinclair, Sujin Kang Zoe Hoare, Chris Whitaker, Alistair Burns, Martin Knapp, Iracema Leroi, Esme Moniz-Cook, Stephen Pearson, Stephen Simpson, Ian Russell and Hugo de Waal were also involved in iCST research.