Dr Marie Poole is a Senior Research Associate in the Population Health Sciences Institute at Newcastle University. She is an experienced qualitative researcher, conducting research into dementia care research from diagnosis to end of life care in a range of settings including primary care, hospital based care, and the community. She has co-authored over 30 publications on the improvement of dementia care and played a prominent part in the development and delivery of innovative online resources to disseminate research findings broadly to benefit people living with dementia, their families and health and social care professionals.