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Chiara is a Research Fellow at the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her work focuses on dementia care, informal care, and social and long-term care.
Her research interests include health inequalities, care technologies, and research ethics in collaborative research involving potentially vulnerable groups. She has also contributed to theoretical developments on unmet care needs and information work in health and social care. She is an experienced qualitative research methods, collaborative approaches to research (including co-creation and participatory action research), theory of change approaches, and the design and evaluation of complex interventions.
Chiara’s PhD explored co-creation in dementia care, drawing on a six-year action research project carried out within an English local health and care system.
Chiara has been awarded a post-doctoral fellowship (2026–2028) from the NIHR Three Research Schools’ Dementia Research Programme, to conduct longitudinal qualitative study on health and care inequalities among people with dementia and family carers in England. As part of her post-doc, she will explore the use of LLMs in qualitative dementia research.
Expertise
Dementia Care, Implementation Science, Evaluation, Research Ethics and Qualitative Research