Emma Broome

Contact

• workRoom Room M222 113 The Ropewalk
  Ropewalk House
  113 The Ropewalk
  Nottingham
  NG1 5DU
  UK
• Emma.Broome1@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Dr Emma Broome PhD MSc BaHons is a Research Fellow in Hearing Sciences at the University of Nottingham.

She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Ottawa in 2011 followed by an MSc in Mental Health at Queen Mary University of London.

In 2015 Emma was awarded a three-year studentship from the Alzheimer's Society as part of the TAnDem (The arts and dementia) Doctoral Training Centre at the University of Nottingham. Emma's PhD was based on the Imagine Arts programme, an initiative encouraging partnerships between care providers and arts organisations to deliver a range of arts interventions to people living in residential care. In 2019 Emma was awarded her PhD in Dementia Research exploring the role of care staff in creative arts interventions in residential care homes.

Emma is the ECR representative within the Clinical Research Network Dementia National Specialty Group and a member of the Centre for Dementia in the Institute of Mental Health at Nottingham.

Research Summary

Improving the use of amplification in adults with hearing loss

Emma is currently working in Adult Hearing Health as a Research Fellow at the NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre. Her current research, led by Dr Helen Henshaw, aims to develop a digital tool for first-time hearing aid users to support hearing aid use.

Recent Publications

• BROOME E, SCHNEIDER J and DENING T, 2019. Facilitating Imagine Arts in residential care homes: the artists’ perspectives. Arts & Health. 11(1), 54-66
• BOSCO, ALESSANDRO, SCHNEIDER, JUSTINE and BROOME, EMMA, 2019. The social value of the arts for care home residents in England: A Social Return on Investment (SROI) analysis of the Imagine Arts programme MATURITAS. 124, 15-24
• BROOME, EMMA, DENING, TOM and SCHNEIDER, JUSTINE, 2018. Participatory arts in care settings: A multiple case study: Innovative practice. Dementia (London, England). 1471301218807554
• BROOME E, DENING T, SCHNEIDER J and BROOKER D, 2017. Care staff and the creative arts: exploring the context of involving care personnel in arts interventions International Psychogeriatrics. 29(12), 1979-1991

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Past Research

AQUEDUCT Emma worked as a Research Fellow on AQUEDUCT, a five year NIHR funded programme grant, aiming to establish best practice in teams managing crisis in people with dementia and develop a 'resource kit' to enable crisis teams to achieve this.

• BROOME E, SCHNEIDER J and DENING T, 2019. Facilitating Imagine Arts in residential care homes: the artists’ perspectives. Arts & Health. 11(1), 54-66
• BOSCO, ALESSANDRO, SCHNEIDER, JUSTINE and BROOME, EMMA, 2019. The social value of the arts for care home residents in England: A Social Return on Investment (SROI) analysis of the Imagine Arts programme MATURITAS. 124, 15-24
• BROOME, EMMA, DENING, TOM and SCHNEIDER, JUSTINE, 2018. Participatory arts in care settings: A multiple case study: Innovative practice. Dementia (London, England). 1471301218807554
• BROOME E, DENING T, SCHNEIDER J and BROOKER D, 2017. Care staff and the creative arts: exploring the context of involving care personnel in arts interventions International Psychogeriatrics. 29(12), 1979-1991
• BROOME, EMMA, DENING, TOM, SCHNEIDER, JUSTINE and BROOKER, DAWN, 2017. Care staff and the creative arts: exploring the context of involving care personnel in arts interventions INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOGERIATRICS. 29(12), 1979-1991