Current Research Projects:

  • Understanding how strategy use can improve cognitive function and working memory in older adults.
    • ESRC GRANT: Strategy training to support healthy cognitive ageing: behavioural, neuroimaging, and real-world investigations in collaboration with Prof Louise Nicholls-Brown (PI, University of Strathclyde), Dr Richard Allen (University of Leeds), Dr Claudia von Bastian (University of Sheffield) and Prof Mario Parra Rodriguez (University of Strathclyde).
       
  • Personalized Brain Stimulation for improving poststroke fatigue and cognitive outcomes.
    • Summerhayes Post-doctoral Fellowship with Dr Anna Kuppuswamy (PI, University of Leeds).
       
  • Evaluation using brain stimulation for improving cognitive outcomes in Long Covid.
    • UKRI Impact Accelerator Grant (MRC) working with Prof Manoj Sivan (Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust), Dr Rumana Chowdhury (Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust) and Dr Richard Allen (University of Leeds).
       
  • Qualitative study on understanding needs in people with Long Covid.
    • UKRI Impact Accelerator Grant (MRC) working with Prof Manoj Sivan (Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust), Dr Rumana Chowdhury (Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust) and Dr Richard Allen (University of Leeds).
       
  • Nutrition, exercise or brain stimulation: what’s the future of improving cognitive decline?
    • PhD University of Leeds Scholarship working with George Molly (PhD students), Dr Jean-Francois Delvenne (University of Leeds) and Dr Yasina Somani (University of Leeds).
       
  • Visual dysfunction as a biomarker of Frontotemporal Dementia and Motor Neurone Disease.
    • DiMEN DTP grant (MRC) working with Abigail Stretch (PhD student), Dr Ryan West (PI, University of Sheffield) and Prof Alex Wade (University of York).
       
  • Characterising the Cognitive, Neurophysiological and Neuropsychological Profile of Multiple Myeloma Patients.
    • University of Leeds PhD Scholarship working with Sumayyah Patel (PhD student), Dr Chris Parrish (Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust) and Dr Frances Seymour (Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust).