Meet the GREAT Cognitive Rehabilitation Team
Core Project Team at University of Exeter
Project Lead
Linda is a clinical psychologist who developed the cognitive rehabilitation (CR) approach for people with early-stage dementia. She led the pilot trial and the large multi-site GREAT trial that showed CR enables people with dementia to better manage the everyday activities they work on with the CR practitioner. Linda is responsible for trial management, the intervention protocol, and the reporting and dissemination of findings.
Project Manager
Ola is a psychologist and a researcher who oversees the day-to-day running of the project. She provides operational management and ensures the coordination and the delivery of the project.
Research Fellow
Rachel is providing support with the delivery of wave 1 and wave 2 of the project.
Facilitation and Training Leads
Expert Support Team
Jackie Pool is a UK leading specialist in dementia care who has dedicated her professional career of more than 30 years to improving the lives of people who are living with dementia. She began as an Occupational Therapy support worker in a Liverpool Hospital in the early 1980’s where she saw at first-hand how services provided to people with dementia could vary from being highly supportive to being undermining of an individual’s wellbeing.
Sue Evans
Sue is an Occupational Therapist living and working in mountainous North Wales. Sue has delivered cognitive rehabilitation to approximately 70 people with early stage Alzheimer’s and related Dementias as part of her involvement in research since 2005. Sue is a Project Facilitator and Cognitive Rehabilitation trainer for the GREAT into Practice Implementation trial. In addition, she works in the National Health Service (NHS) in North Wales.
Rachael supports our experts by experience, and our wider patient and public involvement activities
Experts by Experience
Implementation Research Team
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Queen Margaret University Edinburgh
University of Bradford
