Dawn Brooker

Professor Emeritus Dawn Brooker PhD MBE (UK) is internationally recognised for scholarship in practice development of person-centred dementia care. Originally qualified as a clinical psychologist, Professor Brooker has many years’ hands on experience in health and social care. She was the founding Director of the Association for Dementia Studies at University of Worcester. Dawn is passionate about writing books and developing resources that reflect the complexity of dementia care but that make this accessible for the widest possible audience. Whilst at Worcester she developed the Care fit for VIPS free website based on her 2016 book on Person Centred Dementia Care. In 2019, she edited an updated edition of Tom Kitwood’s seminal work on person-centred dementia care. Together with Dr Keith Oliver, Professor Brooker is the Reconsidering Dementia Book Series editor for Open University Press. She was made an MBE for services to those affected by dementia in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours in 2021.