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Chloe Tulip
Name:
Chloe Tulip
Job title:
PhD Student
Place of work / study:
Swansea University
Area of Research:
Sleep and Dementia
How is your work funded?
Funded by BRACE charity
Tell us a little about yourself:
I am coming up to 9 months into my PhD. Before my PhD, I did my Masters (Clinical Psychology) and Undergrad (Psychology) at Swansea, it’s a really amazing place to be. I feel really lucky because I couldn’t have chosen a better PhD myself, which I’m sure will help me out down the road for the long nights and looming deadlines.
Tell us a fun fact about yourself:
I play roller derby here in Swansea and just skated a marathon for charity. I’m also learning how to silversmith!
Why did you choose to work in dementia?
It sort of chose me! Before my PhD, I was fascinated with Brain Injury research. I published a paper in Frontiers in Psychology which looked at using Positive Psychotherapy to build Wellbeing for people with Traumatic Brain Injury. I also worked as a Brain Injury Rehabilitation Support Worker for several years. I applied for a PhD relating to TBI, but I just missed out.
Shortly after, my PhD (sleep and dementia) popped up. I am absolutely obsessed with sleep (long history of rubbish sleep) and I was in the process of trying to create my own PhD about sleep, so that was very fortunate. I was concerned that I didn’t have much experience in Dementia, but I realised there’s lots of overlap between TBI and Dementia research. The main parallel is that the research surrounding them has a direct positive impact on people’s lives, which was one of the most rewardable elements of writing my dissertation. The rest is history, and I’m hooked!
Amelia Robson
UK DRI
Dr Jodi Watt