Professor Claudia Cooper

Claudia is Professor of Psychological Medicine, Deputy Vice Principal for Research Innovation and Culture and Director of the Doctoral College at Queen Mary University of London, and a consultant old age psychiatrist in East London NHS Foundation Trust memory services.

She led the NIHR/ESRC APPLE-Tree programme (Active Prevention in People at risk of dementia: Lifestyle, bEhaviour change/Technology to REducE cognitive decline) from 2018-24, investigating how lifestyle and behavioural change can prevent dementia in older people. She co-directs an NIHR Dementia and Neurodegenerative diseases Policy Research Unit (Queen Mary) and the Alzheimer’s Society Integrated Care Doctoral Training programme. From 2018-24, she led the Alzheimer’s Society Centre of Excellence for Independence at home, developing interventions to support people living with dementia at home that she is now testing (2026-30) within the Alzheimer’s Society Centre for Health Inequalities, which she leads.

Claudia is a member of the UK Cabinet Office Evaluation Task Force Advice Panel, which advises and supports evaluations of national government programmes and policies; and an NIHR Senior Investigator. She is an Honorary Research Fellow at University of Melbourne and sits on the Alzheimer’s Society Research Strategy Board.