Dawn June Ratcliffe Brooker MBE (born 1959) is a British psychologist who is a professor at the University of Worcester and Director of the Association for Dementia Studies.
In 1984 Brooker graduated with a master's degree and qualified as a clinical psychologist at the University of Birmingham.
[3] She first heard Thomas Kitwood, a pioneer in dementia care who would eventually become her doctoral supervisor, speak at a conference in 1988.
[4] Her doctoral research focussed on improving the quality of care for people suffering from dementia.
[1] Brooker was awarded a personal chair at the University of Bradford, where she continued Kitwood's work on person-centred dementia care.