Professor Linda Clare

Professor Linda Clare
Clinical Psychology of Ageing and Dementia, University of Exeter

Linda Clare is Professor of Clinical Psychology of Ageing and Dementia at the University of Exeter. Trained as a clinical psychologist, she leads the University’s Centre for Research in Ageing and Cognitive Health (REACH). The Centre’s research aims to improve the lives of older people and people with dementia through a focus on maintaining cognitive health in later life, living well with dementia, and supporting family care. This includes the IDEAL longitudinal cohort study, an Alzheimer’s Society Centre of Excellence, which investigates what helps people with dementia and family carers to live well with the condition. Linda has published over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and is an Editor for the Cochrane Collaboration and for the journal

Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. She is a Chartered Psychologist registered as a practitioner with the Health and Care Professions Council, and a National Institute of Health Research Senior Investigator. She is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Academy of Social Sciences and the Gerontological Society of America, and serves on the Governing Board of the Global Council on Brain Health. In 2004 she received the May Davidson award from the British Psychological Society for her contribution to the development of clinical psychology in the UK. She was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science, the highest degree of the University of Cambridge, in 2015 in recognition of her work on awareness in people with dementia.