Senior Research Fellow
Dr Clare Thetford is a Senior Research Fellow based within the Stroke Research Team in the School of Nursing, Faculty of Health and Care at the University of Central Lancashire. Clare has a special interest in the use of qualitative research methods to capture and learn from the lived experience of service users and providers in health and social care. Her current work focuses upon end-of-life care after stroke, including complex decision-making; rehabilitation after stroke; and leisure after stroke. Clare leads and collaborates on a number of externally funded UK-based and international research projects; and supervises postgraduate students and professional interns undertaking research projects. Clare has over twenty years' experience in research, based at leading Universities in the UK, and previously in Australia. She also worked as a Research Manager for the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Currently, she is co-Chief-Investigator on an NIHR Programme Development Grant (PREPARE: improving End of life care Practice in stroke cARE); in which she and colleagues plan to develop a large programme of research, with multi-disciplinary co-applicants and collaborators from across the NHS, UK Universities, and in partnership with a project-specific patient and public involvement group. For more information, please visit: www.uclan.ac.uk/academics/dr-clare-thetford
