Dr Jane M Mullins
Jane has over 30 years dementia nursing, teaching and research experience. Originally working as a care assistant in a care home prior to her nurse training. She has supported people and their loved ones through their dementia diagnosis in 2 memory clinics and has cared with people on acute medical and older adult hospital wards before managing a care home. Her research includes her role as research nurse in the memory clinics and her Suitcase of Memories PhD, which explored multisensory ways of communicating and connecting with people living with moderate dementia. She has disseminated much of her practitioner and research experience when lecturing and tutoring in Health and Social Care and prides herself in bringing together the expertise of people living with dementia, and many professionals and researchers in her development of Finding the Light in Dementia training.
Mari Jones
Mari Jones, is a Registered Mental Health Nurse with over 30 years’ experience, currently working in the NHS as an Emotional Well-being and Mental Health Practitioner along with her private consultancy services: The Well Nurtured Mind. Her career has taken her overseas where she has extensive leadership and clinical experience in Australia and the UK, as a Consultant Mental Health Nurse, and as a member of a government advisory committee as a content expert. She is a highly skilled trainer and facilitator with extensive experience in training health care staff in clinical care. Mari is passionate about education and supporting staff well-being, demonstrated by her background in workplace coaching, violence prevention and conflict management. Mari has facilitated numerous staff support groups over numerous years. She believes that supporting staff is an integral part of ensuring that our patients and clients receive the best care and optimise health outcomes.
Dr Clive Thomas
Clive is a specialist practitioner in mental health nursing who has spent his career working in memory assessment and dementia care in both hospital and community settings. He is a former health technology exemplar with the Bevan Commission in which he evaluated the use of an app to help triage for changes in cognition with a view to dementia diagnosis. In 2023 he completed a doctorate in nursing science in which he looked at some of the barriers and enablers to adopting more person-centred ways to diagnose dementia. He is an advocate of general systems thinking to help explain the gaps in service and is keen to help other innovators in health and social care to understand and overcome resistance to change. Clive is currently evaluating the use of a wearable technology to enable vulnerable people to continue living safely in their own homes.
Prof Charles Musselwhite
Charles is a Professor of Psychology, at Aberystwyth University. His research involves applying social, environmental and health psychology to understanding and improving relationships between the built environment, transportation and health. including road user safety in later life and giving-up driving. This is particularly pertinent for people following a dementia diagnosis. His research is conducted in co production with older adults and people living with dementia, where he supports people who struggle to communicate through creative research methods to ensure their voices are represented. He is Co-Director of the Centre for Ageing and Dementia Research, Transport and Health Integrated Research Network and Centre for Transport and Mobility (CeTrAM), Aberystwyth University.