Dr. Sahdia Parveen

Biography

Sahdia was  joined the Centre for Applied Dementia Studies in 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 in 2015 and 2023. Sahdia continues to be actively involved within the community and currently delivers Dementia Detectives workshops for schools and dementia awareness in communities. Sahdia's research interests include: diversity and dementia (particularly the experience of minority ethnic communities), family carers, implementation science, brain health (dementia risk reduction) behaviour change, development and psychometric testing of questionnaires and evaluation of dementia education and training. 

Examples of recent projects include:

ADAPT (Co PI): Adapting the care pathway for south Asian families

SIDECAR (PI): Implementing the SIDECAR scales in social care settings

DEM-SAFE (PI): Co-designing interventions to improve awareness of dementia risk in minority communities

DeNPRU Exeter (co-I): Reducing inequalities across the care pathways for minority ethnic communities

I currently mentor/supervise post docs and PhD students. I am open to supervise doctoral students on projects that align with my research interests.

Research

Diversity and dementia (particularly the experience of minority ethnic communities)
Family carers
Cohort studies/large questionnaire studies

Brain health

Behaviour change
Health Psychology
Implementation science
Development and psychometric testing of questionnaire scales

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

Public Health

Professional activities

Publications