The Team: Understanding the Person In Context

Meet the Team: Workpackage Four

Heather Wilkinson is Professor of Dementia Practice and Participation and the director of the Edinburgh Centre for Research on the Experience of Dementia. She is also deputy director of the Advanced Care Research Centre (ACRC) and the Academy for Leadership in the ACRC. She has a longstanding involvement in qualitative dementia research and activism and is also a trainee psychotherapist. 

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Sue Lewis is an ethnographer and Senior Research Fellow (Gender, Care, Families and Work) in the School of Social and Political Science. Her expertise includes co-production research on health and inequalities with communities of place and of interest. 

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Catharine Ward Thompson is Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of OPENspace research centre, with a focus on inclusive access outdoors and salutogenic environments, at the University of Edinburgh. 

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Louise Robinson is an academic GP, is Regius Professor of Ageing And Professor of Primary Care and Ageing at Newcastle University. She leads one of three national Alzheimer Society Centres of Excellence in Dementia Care Research.

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Katie Brittain is Professor of Applied Health Research & Ageing in the Population Health Sciences Institute at Newcastle University. Her research interests focus on how aspects of the physical, social and technological environment pose challenges and opportunities for older people and their wider community.
 

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Caroline is an OPENspace Research Fellow based across Edinburgh College of Art and the Advanced Care Research Centre (ACRC) at the Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh. She is currently working on the Personal Projects study as part of ACRC Work Package 4 Understanding the Person in Context. Caroline has a background in sociology and experience working on qualitative and mixed methods projects in health and wellbeing research, with a particular interest in issues related to healthy ageing, environments and place, and bereavement and end-of-life.

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A Chartered Statistician with a PhD in statistical epidemiology, Andrew uses complex longitudinal data and advanced statistical techniques to understand how health outcomes unfold over time. His principal area of technical interest relates to statistical methods that are applicable to complex longitudinal data that have the capacity to identify temporal trends and how factors impact/shape those trends. His mathematical expertise centres on methodology used to analyse longitudinal continuous and categorical data and microsimulation.

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Emma joined Newcastle University in November 2010 and has since worked on several research projects within the Population Health Sciences Institute. Her research experience has predominantly involved people aged over 60 years, people living with dementia and their families, and has also included being part of a global research project into dementia care in low and middle income countries (LMICs). Qualitative research methods are her primary focus, with experience of ethnography, focus groups and interviews.

Emma is currently involved in a longitudinal qualitative research project, 'Ageing in place successfully: exploring factors which facilitate and hinder independent living with age'.

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Linda McKie is Executive Dean for the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy at King's College, London. She is also a Visiting Professor in Gender Studies at the University of Helsinki. Across several decades her research has considered care, caring and the multiple interfaces of caring and working. Linda is also concerned with the use of evidence in policy making and evaluation, working with colleagues across philosophy, social policy and sociology.
 

 


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Larissa Pschetz is a Lecturer in Design Informatics, Programme Director of Product Design, and Edinburgh Futures Institute Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on design-led methods to explore the socio-economic impact of data-driven technologies.
 

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John Vines is Chair of Design Informatics in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, and is Co-Director of the Institute for Design Informatics. His research is in the field of human-computer interaction, where he studies the lived experience of digital and data-driven technologies and uses participatory methodologies to design new technologies that have social impact and value.

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Nuša studied at the University of Glasgow (BSc Hons Psychology), UCL (MSc Health Psychology), and PhD (Health Psychology and Informatics for the UCL Institute of Health Informatics). She has experience working in academia, private and public healthcare, medical communications industry and consumer health, in multidisciplinary teams using mixed-methods approaches and has interests in psychology, health psychology, AI, femtech, women's health, health content on Wikipedia and innovative health solutions. Her role is a  joint role across WP4 and WP6.


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