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Academics from Queen¡¯s have many years¡¯ experience of researching issues concerned with the many facets of ageing.

Faculty Leads

Dr Gemma Carney

Reader in Social Policy and Ageing, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Social and cultural gerontology
  • Political demography
  • Interdisciplinary studies of ageing
  • Gender and policy-making in ageing societies
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Dr Mihalis Doumas

Academic and Researcher; Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Fall prevention and ageing
  • Balance and gait control
  • Walking in real-world environments
  • Community-based interventions
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Prof Carmel Hughes

Academic and Researcher; Professor of Primary Care Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Optimising medicines use in older people
  • Pharmacists and primary care
  • Intervention development
  • Evidence-based healthcare
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Mallaidh McCann

PhD Student and Research Assistant
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Neurodegenerative disease and movement disorder pathology
  • The use of non-invasive brain stimulation for the treatment of depression
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Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences

The School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Dr Claire Cleland

Research Fellow
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Physical activity
  • Built and social environment
  • Healthy and active ageing
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Dr Lajos Csincsik

Research Fellow in Ophthalmic Imaging and Image Analysis
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Multiple Sclerosis
  • Alzheimer's Disease
  • Age-related Macular Degeneration
  • Age
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Dr Emma Cunningham

Clinical Senior Lecturer
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Medical gerontology
  • Perioperative brain health
  • Delirium after surgery and relation to dementia
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Dr Yvonne Dombrowski

Senior Lecturer in Neuroimmunology
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Tissue damage and repair
  • Multiple Sclerosis
  • Damage and regeneration of the Central Nervous System
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Sinead Donnelly

Doctoral Student - Supervisor: Dr Joseph Kane
Research interests
  • Dementia with Lewy bodies
  • Health preference research
  • Discrete choice experiments and best-worst scaling
    • Project title
    What symptoms matter most to those affected by dementia with Lewy bodies?
    Contact
    pdonnelly546@qub.ac.uk

Rebecca Egerton

Doctoral Student - Supervisors: Dr Emma Cunningham, Prof Bernadette McGuinness, Prof Owen A. Ross
Research interests
  • Cognitive Resilience to Dementia
  • Dementia & Alzheimer's Disease
  • Cognitive Impairment
  • Alzheimer's Disease biomarkers
    • Project title
    Predictors of cognitive resilience in longitudinal cohort studies
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    regerton02@qub.ac.uk

Prof Denise Fitzgerald

Professor of Neuroimmunology
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Multiple Sclerosis
  • Novel therapeutic targets
  • Tissue regeneration in the Central Nervous System
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Prof Ruth Hogg

Professor of Ophthamology
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Ocular ageing
  • Age-related diseases
  • Age-related macular degeneration
  • Diabetic retinopathy
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Prof Ruth Hunter

Professor of Public and Planetary Health
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Public health
  • Disease prevention
  • Planetary health
  • Systems science
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Dr Joseph Kane

Clinical Lecturer at the Centre for Public Health and honorary consultant in Psychiatry of Old Age in the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Trust
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Lewy body dementia
  • Clinical epidemiology
  • Peripheral neuropathology of Lewy Body Dementia
  • Metabolic analysis
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Prof Imre Lengyel

Professor of Translational Ophthalmology at the Wellcome Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Age-related macular degeneration
  • Alzheimer's Disease
  • Multiple Sclerosis
  • Down syndrome
  • Ageing, Age, Neurodegenerative disorder
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Dr Calum Marr

Research Fellow, Centre for Public Health
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Cognitive impairment
  • Cognitive assessment
  • Cognitive decline
  • Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia
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Dr Claire McEvoy

Senior Lecturer in Nutrition and Ageing
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Diet
  • Epidemiology
  • Role of nutrition in healthy ageing and disease prevention
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Prof Bernadette McGuinness

Clinical Professor of Ageing
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Alzheimer¡¯s disease
  • Mild cognitive impairment
  • inflammation and nutrition in neurodegeneration
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Dr Gareth McKay

Reader (Associate Professor) at the Centre of Public Health
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Molecular pathogenesis of dementia
  • Diabetes associated complictations
  • Role of nutrition in healthy ageing
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Prof Gerry McKenna

Clinical Professor of Oral Health Services Research and Gerodontology
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Gerodontology
  • Links between oral health and nutrition
  • Patient-centred outcomes
  • Health economics
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Prof Amy-Jayne McKnight

Professor of Molecular Epidemiology and Public Health
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Molecular epidemiology of complex disorders
  • Multi-omic risk factors for diseases with a focus in aging populations
  • Improving the lives of individuals living and working with rare disease(s)
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Prof Tunde Peto

Clinical Professor of Ophthamology
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Diseases causing blindness
  • Diabetic retinopathy
  • Ophthalmic image analysis
  • NICOLA Study
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Dr Claire Potter

Clinical Lecturer at the Centre for Public Health
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Lifecourse impact of stress
  • Mental state
  • Cognitive ageing and ageing cohorts
  • NICOLA Study
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Dr Aoife Sweeney

Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Health
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Lewy body dementia
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Prof Jayne Woodside

Professor of Human Nutrition
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Human nutrition and ageing
  • Biomarkers to assess dietary intake
  • Human nutrition intervention studies
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Prof Heping Xu

Clinical Professor of Ocular Immunology
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Immunopathogenesis
  • Age-related retinal degenerative disease
  • Chronic inflammation and retinal degenerative disease
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Prof Ian Young

Clinical Professor of Medicine
Areas of Research Excellence
  • Ageing
  • Age-related macular degeneration
  • Biochemical aspects of nutrition, particularly in relation to disease prevention
  • The role of micronutrients and oxidative stress in disease and disorders of lipid metabolism
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