I am a PhD student in Mental Health with the Centre for Primary Care and Health Services Research, looking at British South Asian diagnosis of dementia and access to memory clinics, comprising the DOME Project. I am also a Research Associate with the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration for Greater Manchester, co-creating research methods resources for and with young people through the Bridge The Gap podcast and initative. 

I am also an Honorary Lead Research Assistant at the Salford Royal Department of Clinical Neuropsychology on the IMAN Project: Improving Minorities Access to Neuropsychological services. I have also started the SOODI Project: South Asians and Dementia, focusing on raising awareness of dementia and dementia research in Pakistan.

• BSc (Hons) Psychology University of Manchester 2015
• MPhil Primary Care Mental Health University of Manchester 2017

• Dementia and cognitive impairment
• Culturally sensitive cognitive testing
• British ethnic minority access to dementia services and neuropsychological services
• Cultural sensitivity in dementia research
• Dementia awareness and research in Pakistan
• Co-designing and co-production with young adults

I graduated from the University of Manchester in 2015 with a BSc (Hons) in Psychology and followed this with an MPhil in Primary Care Mental Health, also from Manchester. In January, 2017 I was awarded a doctoral training partnership by the Medical Research Council for a PhD in Mental Health, which commenced September, 2017. My research across my MPhil and within my PhD work focuses on the diagnosis of dementia within ethnic minority groups, particularly British South Asians, and improving their access to memory clinics. 

I used to be a graduate teaching assistant for the BSc (Hons) Psychology course. I have taught seminars for Clinical Psychology, Cognition, and Lifespan and Ageing, led reading groups for Communication in Healthcare, and I have assisted in labs for Mental Health and Distress, Cognition, Introduction to Developmental Psychology, and Sensation and Perception. I have also assisted in lectures for the 'Qualitative Research Methods' module.

I am also a guest lecturer at the University of Lancaster for their DClinPsy programme, delivering a lecture and exercise on "Diversity and Difference in Neuropsychology: Culturally adapting cognitive tests" annually since 2020.

• British Psychological Society (BPS) Graduate Member
• BPS Division of Clinical Psychology & Minorities Group Committee Member
• BPS Division of Neuropsychology
• The International Neuropsychological Society (In-Training Member)
• British Neuropsychological Society 
• Association of British Science Writers Student Member
• MICRA PhD Network