Dr Charlotte R. Stoner is a psychometrician who specialises in the development and evaluation of strengths-based outcome measures for people living with dementia. In particular she has designed outcome measures around subjective independence, social engagement, hope and resilience. These outcome measures are increasingly used in large scale psychosocial research for people with dementia as researchers and academics continue to move away from a loss-deficit model to a more strengths or capabilities-based model of living with dementia.
Alongside this, Charlotte is active in the field of psychosocial interventions including a collaboration with partners in Brazil, India and Tanzania on the implementation of Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) in these countries, and a collaboration with academics at the University of Plymouth on a primary care intervention for people with dementia.
Charlotte was recently awarded an Early Career Researcher Excellence Award from Greenwich Research and Enterprise in recognition of her work. Charlotte will use this award as the basis for establishing a diverse expert by experience group of people with dementia to coproduce further evidence-based outcome measures, rooted in a strengths-capability approach to living with dementia.
