Research Team
Dr Penny Rapaport | Chief Investigator

Professor Gill Livingston | Co-Chief Investigator

Dr Sarah Amador | Trial Manager and Investigator

Professor Sube Banerjee | Investigator

Dr Julie Barber | Investigator
Dr Julie Barber is an Associate Professor in Medical Statistics based at the UCL Department of Statistical science. She is a senior statistician in the PRIMENT clinical trials unit and is lead statistical co-applicant for DREAMS:START.
Dr Georgina Charlesworth | Investigator
Dr Georgina Charlesworth is an Associate Professor in UCL’s Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology and a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT). She is a local Principal Investigator for DREAMS in NELFT.
Dr Chris Clarke | Investigator
Professor Colin Espie | Investigator
Colin is the Professor of Sleep Medicine at the University of Oxford, where he is Director of the Experimental & Clinical Sleep Medicine research programme, and Clinical Director of Oxford Online Programme in Sleep Medicine. He is a Senior Research Fellow at Somerville College and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry. He is a co-applicant for DREAMS-START and offers guidance on assessment of and intervention of sleep problems.
He is internationally known for his work on insomnia and its treatment, using cognitive behavioural therapeutics (CBTx). He has published over 300 scientific papers and several textbooks. He is Deputy Editor of Journal of Sleep Research, serves on the editorial board of Sleep Medicine Reviews, and was awarded Honorary Fellow of the BABCP (British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies) in 2015, the Mary A. Carskadon Outstanding Educator Award by the Sleep Research Society in 2017, and the Peter Hauri Lifetime Scientific Achievement Award by the Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine in 2021. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Royal Society of Medicine, and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
Dr Simon Kyle | Investigator

Ms Rossana Horsley | Investigator
Rossana has been a volunteer with the Alzheimer’s Society’s Research Network since 2014. She looked after her mother, who had mixed dementia, for the last 3 years of her life. This experience made her very aware of the impact of sleep disturbance on both the person with the illness and on family carers. Keen to contribute what she had learnt to a project that could help others deal better with this issue she has been involved from the start.
Professor Rachael Hunter | Investigator

Dr Gosia Raczek | Investigator
Gosia is an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Centre for Dementia Studies (CDS) and a module leader for the MSc in Dementia Studies. She is a clinical academic consultant and local PI for DREAMS-START in Old Age Psychiatry at Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, where she works in Memory Assessment Service in North West Sussex and Dementia Research Unit (DRU) in Crowborough. Gosia is a PhD student at the Clinical Imaging Sciences Centre working on a study of brain structure and connectivity in neuropsychiatric symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease and an investigator on studies run by DRU and CDS.
Dr Zuzana Walker | Investigator

Dr Lucy Webster | Investigator

Caroline Connell | Researcher

Monica Manela | Researcher
Monica is a Research Assistant for DREAMS-START.
Sarah Morris | Researcher

Liam Pikett | Researcher

Emma Thornton | Researcher

Ankita Bhojwani

Ankita is a Research Assistant on the sub-study evaluating the impact of the DREAMS:START intervention on people living with dementia and other long-term conditions, like diabetes and hypertension. She is also investigating the feasibility of a wearable EEG device called the Dreem headband in measuring the sleep of people living with dementia.
Please contact Ankita at a.bhojwani@ucl.ac.uk if you have any questions regarding her project.
Malvika Muralidhar

Malvika is a Research Assistant on the Widening Access sub-study, focused on adapting the DREAMS:START intervention and making it more accessible to the South Asian communities. She is also involved in the Hindi translation of the manuals and community engagement endeavours with third sector organisations.
Please contact Malvika at Malvika.muralidhar.21@ucl.ac.uk if you have any questions regarding her project.
Dr Chris Clarke
Chris is a co-applicant for DREAMS:START and Principle Investigator for Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust, where he works as a consultant clinical psychologist. He is also a clinical lecturer on the Clinical Psychology Doctorate programme at the University of Hull.
