Charlotte Clarke Explained

Charlotte Clarke
Nationality:	Scottish
Occupation:	Academic
Known For:	research into living with dementia
Alma Mater:	Glasgow College of Technology Northumbria University
Thesis Title:	Who needs problems? : Finding meaning in caregiving for people with dementia
Workplaces:	University of Edinburgh

Charlotte Laura Clarke is the Professor of Health in Social Science at the University of Edinburgh.^[1] Her research centres on the experiences of living with dementia.^[2]

Early life and education

Clarke qualified as a nurse in 1986 from what was then called Glasgow College of Technology and worked clinically for a number of years in the National Health Service before moving into roles that were more focused on education and research. She received a part-time PhD studentship from the Regional Health Authority and focused on the experiences of carers of people with dementia. Her doctoral thesis, awarded by Northumbria University, was entitled Who needs problems? : Finding meaning in caregiving for people with dementia.

Career

Clarke is the co-director of the Edinburgh Centre for Research on the Experience of Dementia, College Dean International and director of Global Communities at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.^[1] Much of her research addresses people's perception of risk,^[3] our understanding of risk management and enablement,^[4] and resilence in order to improve quality of life for people with dementia.^[5]

In 2010, Clarke jointly edited Risk Assessment and Management for Living Well with Dementia, which was awarded first prize in the 2012 British Medical Association Medical Book Award (health and social care).^[6] More recently, she started to explore the use of theatre and film in communicating and engaging the public in her research findings. Jack & Jill and The Red Postbox was a theatre performance examining the changing lives of a family due to a diagnosis of dementia, inspired by research that explored risk and resilence when living with dementia.^[7] She also has an interest in nursing education and has examined student learning dynamics in clinical contexts including the use information technology to support nursing students in practice.^[8]

External links

• • Doctoral thesis

Notes and References

1. Web site: Professor Charlotte Clarke . University of Edinburgh . 26 May 2019.
2. Keyes, S. E. . Clarke, C. L. . Gibb, C. E. . 2018. Living with dementia, interdependence and citizenship: narratives of everyday decision-making . Disability & Society . 34 . 2 . 296–319 . 10.1080/09687599.2018.1528970 . 150196683. 20.500.11820/f7345ff4-7997-46e0-aad1-306ea1bfe1bb . free.
   - Web site: Prof. Charlotte Clarke - The Experience of Living With Dementia . University of Edinburgh . May 2, 2013 . YouTube . 26 May 2019.
3. Clarke. C. L.. 2008. Risk and long‐term conditions: the global challenge. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 17. 5a. 1–3 . 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2007.02257.x. 18298751. 116084255 . free.
   - Clarke. C. L.. 2009. Risk and long-term conditions: The contradictions of self in society. Health, Risk & Society . 11 . 4 . 297–302. 10.1080/13698570903045427. 146187091.
4. Roberts, K. . Clarke, C.. 2009. Future disorientation following gynaecological cancer: Women's conceptualisation of risk after a life threatening illness . Health, Risk & Society . 11 . 4 . 353–366 . 10.1080/13698570903013623. 73876646.
   - Clarke, C. L. . Gibb, C. E. . Keady, J. . Luce, A. . Wilkinson, H. . Williams, L. . Cook, A. . 2009 . Risk management dilemmas in dementia care: an organizational survey in three UK countries . International Journal of Older People Nursing . 4 . 2 . 89–96. 10.1111/j.1748-3743.2008.00149.x . 20925808 .
   - Clarke, C. . 2010 . Risk and long-term conditions-society, services and resilience . Journal of Nursing and Healthcare of Chronic Illness . 2 . 2 . 85–87. 10.1111/j.1752-9824.2010.01060.x . free.
5. Clarke, C. L. . Keady, J. . Wilkinson, H. . Gibb, C. E. . Luce, A. . Cook, A. . Williams, L.. 2010. Dementia and risk: Contested territories of everyday life.. Journal of Nursing and Healthcare of Chronic Illness . 2. 2. 102–112. 10.1111/j.1752-9824.2010.01040.x. free.
   - Botsford, J. . Clarke, C. L. . Gibb, C. E. . 2011 . Research and dementia, caring and ethnicity: a review of the literature. Journal of Research in Nursing . 16 . 5 . 437–449 . 10.1177/1744987111414531. 57883032.
   - Clarke, C. L. . Alexjuk, J. . Gibb, C. E. . 2011. Information in dementia care: sense making and a public health direction for the UK?. International Journal of Older People Nursing . 6 . 3 . 237–243 . 10.1111/j.1748-3743.2011.00288.x . 21884489.
6. Web site: A celebratory evening at the 2012 BMA Medical Book & Patient Information Awards . Jessica Kingsley Publishers . 29 March 2023 . 14 September 2012.
   - Book: Risk Assessment and Management for Living Well with Dementia. Clarke C.L. . Wilkinson H. . Keady J. . Gibb C.E. . Jessica Kingsley . 2011 . 9781849050050 . London.
7. Clarke, C. L. . Bailey, C. . 2016 . Narrative citizenship, resilience and inclusion with dementia: On the inside or on the outside of physical and social places . Dementia . 15 . 3 . 434–452 . 10.1177/1471301216639736. 27170591. 206732814.
   - Clarke, C. . Mantle, R. . 2016 . Using risk management to promote person-centred dementia care . Nursing Standard . 30 . 28 . 41–46 . 10.7748/ns.30.28.41.s47 . 26959471. 20.500.11820/879b0763-1e20-496f-bf02-a8b2d745d778 . 27626182 . free.
8. Lee, J. J. . Clarke, C. L. . 2015 . Nursing students' attitudes towards information and communication technology: An exploratory and confirmatory factor analytic approach . Journal of Advanced Nursing . 71 . 5 . 1181–1193 . 10.1111/jan.12611. 25586107. 1842/20455. 52971841 . free.
   - Lee, J. J. . Clarke, C. L. . Carson, M. N. . 2018 . Nursing students' learning dynamics and influencing factors in clinical contexts . Nurse Education in Practice . 29 . 103–109 . 10.1016/j.nepr.2017.12.003. 29245029 . 20.500.11820/593b3748-0520-41bc-b3d0-12ccaaed87f1 . free.