Professor Claire Surr
Professor Claire Surr is Chair of the NIHR Research Programme for Social Care funding committee.
Claire is Professor of Dementia Studies and Director of the Centre for Dementia Research in the School of Health at Leeds Beckett University.
Claire conducts applied dementia research in social care and health settings. Her research is particularly focused on health and social care workforce education, training and development, and interventions to improve care, services and support for people affected by dementia across the range of formal health and social care settings. She is particularly interested in research to support development of care practices in care homes, having begun her academic career conducting her doctoral research in care homes.