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Dr. Sahdia Parveen

Associate Professor

Area
Centre for Applied Dementia Studies
Faculty of Health Studies
E-mail
S.Parveen27@bradford.ac.uk
Phone
+441274236089
Dr. Sahdia Parveen
2 research projects
28 publications
3 awards

Biography

Dr Sahdia Parveen completed her BSc (hons) in Psychology with neuropsychology in 2006 at the University of Wales, Bangor; followed by a MSc in Clinical Psychology and a PhD in Health Psychology. Sahdia’s MSc thesis and PhD focused on the influence of ethnicity, culture and willingness to care on family carer outcomes (gains, distress and quality of life). Following her PhD research, Sahdia joined the Ascertaining Barriers to Compliance project in 2011. This was a multi-national research project exploring the determinants to medicine adherence using health economics and health psychology models of behaviour. In 2012, Sahdia joined the Yorkshire Quality and Safety Research group at the Bradford Institute for Health Research as a research fellow. Sahdia was involved with a range of projects examining patient safety factors in health care. She also developed an interest in patient and public involvement in research. Sahdia was delighted to join the Centre for Applied Dementia Studies in August 2013. Sahdia was awarded a prestigious early career fellowship from the Alzheimer's Society in 2015 worth £225k. She also won the Alzheimer's Society Dementia Research Leaders award for patient and public involvement and engagement. Sahdia continues to be actively involved within the community and currently delivers Dementia Detectives workshops for schools. Sahdia has been a co investigator on several projects and most recently was the chief investigator on the Caregiving HOPE study. Sahdia's research interests include: diversity and dementia (particularly the experience of minority ethnic communities), family carers, implementation science, behaviour change, development and psychometric testing of questionnaires and patient safety. Sahdia's work has received attention from the media and was recently featured on BBC Look North and the Vitoria Derbyshire show. 

Research

Diversity and dementia (particularly the experience of minority ethnic communities)
Family carers
Cohort studies/large questionnaire studies
Behaviour change
Health Psychology
Implementation science
Development and psychometric testing of questionnaire scales

Research projects

Research collaborator

  • Gerontology (University of Connecticut)
  • Dementia Detectives (Leeds Beckett)
  • Dementia Detectives (Brighton and Sussex Medical School)
  • Health Psychology (Bangor University)

Teaching

Dementia
Quantitative research methods
Health Psychology

Professional activities

  • Best Poster award (1 January 2016)
  • Dementia Research Leader Award for Patient and Public engagement (1 July 2015)
  • Best Poster Award for Dementia Friendly Projects (1 January 2015)

  • Alzheimer's Europe,
  • BME Dementia Network - sharing good practice in dementia care for minority ethnic communities across Yorkshire and Lancashire
  • Journal Dementia Care,

  • BSc (Hons)
  • MSc
  • PhD

  • Champion: Dementia Champion - raising awareness of dementia, and creating demntia friends

  • Dementia Detectives is a workshop for adolescents aiming to improve awareness of dementia

  • Interdem, pan-European network of researchers collaborating in research on and dissemination of Early, Timely and Quality Psychosocial Interventions in Dementia aimed at improving the quality of life of people with dementia and their supporters, across Europe.

Publications