Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Dr Sarah Smith
Professor
Sarah’s research concerns understanding the cognitive changes people with different types of dementia may experience, for example changes in ability to remember parts of your personal history or remember to do something in the future. Investigating everyday changes that people experience in their thinking abilities assist researchers to develop individualised approaches to diagnosis, as well as providing tailored post diagnostic support that respects the different challenges that people living with dementia experience.
Through her research Sarah is interested in developing interventions that support people living with dementia to stimulate cognitive function (e.g. cognitive rehabilitation). She is also interested in evaluating the effectiveness of different types of non-pharmacological interventions (for example music) for people living with different types of dementia in terms of improving cognition, social function and well-being.
Sarah has increasingly been involved in projects using innovative technology to conduct research and deliver healthcare solutions. She has experienced in conducting evaluation research using quantitative and qualitative approach.
Sarah has spent over 6 years developing and delivering training and education to the dementia care workforce. She is interested in conducting research to understand the needs of the dementia care workforce, with a specific focus on providing training and education to support the delivery of person centred diagnosis and early post diagnostic support.
Current Teaching
Supervision of Masters dissertations and doctoral students.
Research Interests
Sarah's current research is targeted at providing improved experience for people with dementia at the point of diagnosis and providing more effective postdaignstic support. She is involved in projects developing technology to inform early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.
She is working with researchers at the University of Manchester to assess the feasibility of Cognitive Stimulation Therapy for people with Parkinson's and Lewy Body Dementia.
Sarah continues to be involved in research evaluating the effectiveness of education and training in the dementia workforce.
She is involved in supervising PhD students examining a range of topics, including evaluating Art and Music interventions, interventions in long term care, developing a measure of self for people with dementia, and managing medicines in community settings.
Ask Me About
- Dementia
- Health
- Rehabilitation
Selected Outputs
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Surr CA; Smith SJ; Crossland J; Robins J (In press) Impact of a person-centred dementia care training programme on hospital staff attitudes, role efficacy and perceptions of caring for people with dementia: A repeated measures study. International journal of nursing studies, 53 pp. 144-151.
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Smith SJ; Griffiths A; Creese B; Sass C; Surr C (2020) A biopsychosocial interpretation of the Neuropsychiatric Inventory – Nursing Home assessment: reconceptualising psychiatric symptom attributions. BJPsych Open, 6 (6), pp. e137.
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Smith SJ (2020) Neuropsychology of Cognitive Decline: A Developmental Approach to Assessment and Intervention By Holly A. Tuokko and Colette M. Smart Guilford Press. 2018. £40.99 (hb). 387 pp. ISBN 9781462535392. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 217 (4), pp. 591-591.
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Surr C; Parveen S; Smith SJ; Drury M; Sass C; Burden S; Oyebode J (2020) The barriers and facilitators to implementing dementia education and training in health and social care services : a mixed-methods study. BMC Health Services Research, 20
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Griffiths A; Smith S; Martin A; Meads D; Kelley R; Surr C (2019) Exploring self-report and proxy-report quality of life measures for people living with dementia in care homes. Quality of Life Research
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Smith SJ; Parveen S; Sass C; Drury M; Oyebode JR; Surr CA (2019) An audit of dementia education and training in UK health and social care: a comparison with national benchmark standards. BMC Health Serv Res, 19 (1), pp. 711.
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Smith SJ; McMillan I; Leroi I; Champ CL; Barr S; McDonald KR; Dick JPR; Poliakoff E (2019) Feasibility and Acceptability of Computerised Cognitive Training of Everyday Cognition in Parkinson's Disease. Parkinsons Dis, 2019 (525849),
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Leroi I; Vatter S; Carter LA; Smith SJ; Orgeta V; Poliakoff E; Silverdale MA; Raw J; Ahearn DJ; Taylor C (2019) Parkinson’s-adapted cognitive stimulation therapy: a pilot randomized controlled clinical trial. Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders, 12
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McCormick SA; Vatter S; Carter LA; Smith SJ; Orgeta V; Poliakoff E; Silverdale MA; Raw J; Ahearn DJ; Taylor C (2019) Parkinson’s-adapted cognitive stimulation therapy: feasibility and acceptability in Lewy body spectrum disorders. Journal of Neurology, 266 (7), pp. 1756-1770.
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Surr CA; Sass C; Burnley N; Drury M; Smith S; Parveen S; Burden S; Oyebode J (2018) Components of impactful dementia training for general hospital staff: a collective case study. Aging and Mental Health
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Surr C; Sass C; Drury M; Burnley N; Smith SJ; Parveen S; Capstick A; Dennison A; Oyebode J (2018) P3‐541: WHAT WORKS IN PROVIDING DEMENTIA EDUCATION AND TRAINING TO STAFF WORKING IN GENERAL HOSPITAL SETTINGS?. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 14 (7S_Part_25),
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García-Casal JA; Martínez-Abad F; Cid-Bartolomé T; Smith SJ; nez KL-O; Perea-Bartolomé MV; ni-Imizcoz MG; Soto-Pérez F; Franco-Martín M (2018) Usability study and pilot validation of a computer-based emotion recognition test for older adults with Alzheimer\textquotesingles disease and amnestic mild cognitive impairment. Aging & Mental Health, pp. 1-11.
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McCormick SA; McDonald KR; Vatter S; Orgeta V; Poliakoff E; Smith SJ; Leroi I (2017) Psychosocial therapy for Parkinson's-related dementia: intervention development. Clin Interv Aging, 12 pp. 1779-1789.
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Surr CA; Gates C; Irving D; Oyebode J; Smith SJ; Parveen S; Drury M; Dennison A (2017) Effective dementia education and training for the health and social care workforce: A systematic review of the literature. Review of Educational Research
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García-Casal JA; Goñi-Imizcoz M; Perea-Bartolomé MV; Soto-Pérez F; Smith SJ; Calvo-Simal S; Franco-Martín M (2017) The Efficacy of Emotion Recognition Rehabilitation for People with Alzheimer’s Disease. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD
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McCormick SA; McDonald KR; Vatter S; Orgeta V; Poliakoff E; Smith S; Silverdale MA; Fu B; Leroi I (2017) Psychosocial therapy for Parkinson’s-related dementia: study protocol for the INVEST randomised controlled trial. BMJ open
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Wells CE; Smith SJ (2016) Diagnostic Care Pathways in Dementia. J Prim Care Community Health, 8 (2), pp. 103-111.
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Hampson C; Smith SJ (2015) Helping occupational performance through engagement: A service evaluation of a programme for informal carers of people with dementia. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 78 pp. 200-204.
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Souchay C; Smith SJ (2013) Subjective states associated with retrieval failures in Parkinson’s disease. Consciousness and cognition
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Souchay C; Smith SJ (2013) Autobiographical memory in Parkinson’s disease: a retrieval deficit. Journal of neuropsychology
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Smith SJ; Souchay C; Moulin CJ (2011) Metamemory and prospective memory in Parkinson’s disease. Neuropsychology
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Smith SJ; Souchay C; Conway MA (2010) Overgeneral autobiographical memory in Parkinson’s disease. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior
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Smith SJ; Souchay C; Conway MA (2010) Improving metamemory in ageing and Parkinson’s disease. Age and ageing
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Smith SJ (2015) Cognitive Approaches to Enabling People to Live Well with Dementia.
