Professor Claire Goodman

Claire is Professor of Health Care Research at the Centre for Research in Public health and Community Care (CRIPACC) University of Hertfordshire. Fellow of the Queen’s Nursing Institute and Emerita National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigator.

She was awarded an MBE in the 2024 Kings New Year Honours for services to older people’s research.

Her research focuses on older people including those affected by dementia, with health and social care needs living at home or in long term care settings.

She co leads the NIHR EPSRC funded MEDAL (Modelling the Experience of Dementia And  other Long term conditions) on  how people living with dementia and other long term conditions and their carers access and use health and care services and the  NIHR HS&DR  recently completed DACHA study (Developing research resources And minimum data set for Care Homes’ Adoption and use) https://dachastudy.com/.