Dawn Brooker

British psychologist (born 1959)

Dawn Brooker MBE
Born	1959 (age 64–65)
Alma mater	University of Birmingham
Scientific career
Institutions	University of Worcester University of Bradford
Thesis	Improving the quality of care for people with dementia (1998)

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Dawn June Ratcliffe Brooker MBE (born 1959) is a British psychologist who is a professor at the University of Worcester and Director of the Association for Dementia Studies. In 2020 she was awarded an MBE for her services to dementia care.

In 1984 Brooker graduated with a master's degree and qualified as a clinical psychologist at the University of Birmingham. She became interested in dementia because of her personal experiences, having grown up with a grandfather with dementia.^[1][2] After graduating, she worked as a psychologist, before returning to academia in the mid-nineties.^[3] She first heard Thomas Kitwood, a pioneer in dementia care who would eventually become her doctoral supervisor, speak at a conference in 1988.^[4] Her doctoral research focussed on improving the quality of care for people suffering from dementia.^[1]

Brooker was awarded a personal chair at the University of Bradford, where she continued Kitwood's work on person-centred dementia care.^[3] In 2009, Brooker founded the Association for Dementia Studies.^[5] She created Care Fit for VIPS, an online resource that looks to assist care homes in delivering high quality dementia care.^[6][7]

• Brooker, Dawn; Latham, Isabelle (21 November 2015). Person-centred dementia care: making services better with the VIPS framework (Second ed.). London. ISBN 978-1-78450-170-9. OCLC 933754452.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Brooker, Dawn, ed. (7 January 2019). Dementia reconsidered, revisited: the person still comes first. Kitwood, T. M. (Second ed.). London. ISBN 978-0-335-24802-5. OCLC 1079788401.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• May, Hazel; Edwards, Paul; Brooker, Dawn (2009). Enriched care planning for people with dementia: a good practice guide for delivering person-centred dementia care. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. ISBN 978-1-84310-405-6. OCLC 301879719.

• Brooker, Dawn (2003). "What is person-centred care in dementia?". Reviews in Clinical Gerontology. 13 (3): 215–222. doi:10.1017/S095925980400108X. ISSN 1469-9036.
• Brooker, D.; Duce, L. (2000-11-01). "Wellbeing and activity in dementia: A comparison of group reminiscence therapy, structured goal-directed group activity and unstructured time". Aging & Mental Health. 4 (4): 354–358. doi:10.1080/713649967. ISSN 1360-7863. S2CID 144845300.
• Brooker, D. (2005-10-01). "Dementia Care Mapping: A Review of the Research Literature". The Gerontologist. 45 (Supplement 1): 11–18. doi:10.1093/geront/45.suppl_1.11. ISSN 0016-9013. PMID 16230745.

• 2019 Universities UK Top 100 Lifesavers working in Higher Education^[8]
• 2019 National Dementia Care Award Lifetime Achievement Award^[9][10]
• 2020 Elected to the MBE in the Order of the British Empire^[11]