Nusaibah Hasan, Inclusive Research and Education Practices Project, King’s College London

Strengths I bring: Adaptability, reflexivity and collaboration

What I would like the network to achieve: I want to support the network’s goal of enabling a meaningful life for all people with dementia by learning from lived experts, researchers and community partners, while working collaboratively in an inclusive environment that fosters innovation.

I recently worked with EMPOWER through the King’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship (KURF) in my final year of BSc (Hons) Global Health and Social Medicine at KCL. I led on collaborating with and interviewing community partners to produce case studies of inclusive dementia care practices using co-production principles and synthesised findings to develop methodological guidance on best practices for inclusive co-production research. Resulting in a reflective essay, research poster and multiple blog posts featured as ‘Spotlights’ on the EMPOWER website.

Following a two-month NGO internship in Tokyo, Japan, I returned to contribute to two further projects. The current IREP project draws on findings from EMPOWER’s Small Research Project Fund to highlight best practices across the projects and strengthen future co-production approaches across all stages of the research process (development to delivery), using a deductive framework analysis and NVivo.