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Charlotte Clarke | |
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| Nationality | Scottish |
| Occupation | Academic |
| Known for | research into living with dementia |
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| Alma mater | Glasgow College of Technology Northumbria University |
| Thesis | Who needs problems? : Finding meaning in caregiving for people with dementia |
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| Institutions | University of Edinburgh |
Charlotte Laura Clarke is the Professor of Health in Social Science at the University of Edinburgh. [1] Her research centres on the experiences of living with dementia. [2]
Clarke qualified as a nurse in 1986 from what was then called Glasgow College of Technology and worked clinically for a number of years in the National Health Service before moving into roles that were more focused on education and research.[ citation needed ] She received a part-time PhD studentship from the Regional Health Authority and focused on the experiences of carers of people with dementia. Her doctoral thesis,awarded by Northumbria University,was entitled Who needs problems? :Finding meaning in caregiving for people with dementia. [1]
Clarke is the co-director of the Edinburgh Centre for Research on the Experience of Dementia,College Dean International and director of Global Communities at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. [1] Much of her research addresses people's perception of risk, [3] our understanding of risk management and enablement, [4] and resilence in order to improve quality of life for people with dementia. [5]
In 2010,Clarke jointly edited Risk Assessment and Management for Living Well with Dementia,which was awarded first prize in the 2012 British Medical Association Medical Book Award (health and social care). [6] More recently,[ when? ] she started to explore the use of theatre and film in communicating and engaging the public in her research findings. Jack &Jill and The Red Postbox was a theatre performance examining the changing lives of a family due to a diagnosis of dementia,inspired by research that explored risk and resilence when living with dementia. [7] She also has an interest in nursing education and has examined student learning dynamics in clinical contexts including the use information technology to support nursing students in practice. [8]
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