Clair Gamble
Lecturer
Health Sciences, School of Health Sciences
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Biography
Clair Gamble is a Lecturer (teaching and research) in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Dundee. She is a registered nurse (adult field) and her clinical background is in acute medicine and care of older adults in NHS Tayside.
Teaching
Clair teaches into a range of undergraduate nursing and post-qualifying modules, predominantly around the topics of ageing, frailty, and dementia. She is also involved in clinical skills teaching for undergraduates, and she supervises MSc dissertations.
Research
Clair’s PhD is on the application of item response theory modelling in educational tests related to dementia. Her wider research interests include:
Topics - dementia, mental health, older adult mental health, knowledge and attitudes towards disease, healthcare education and testing, curriculum development.
Methods - test development, psychometric evaluation, item response theory modelling.