About Us
I am an experienced health and ageing related researcher specialising in bringing the voices of older people and people living with ill health and disability to the research process, data, and outcomes. Our commitment to conducting high-quality scientific research and translating it to a wide array of audiences is grounded in years of working with service users, practitioners, and policy makers to ensure that our research reflects researched communities’ perspectives and clearly communicates them to those who represent them or whose policies and practices affect them.
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Dana Rosenfeld (BA, MA, PhD)
Before founding DBR Research in 2022, Dana was trained in qualitative methods at the University of California-Los Angeles and worked at Royal Holloway University of London, Keele University, and the University of Westminster, where she is now Visiting Research Fellow. Dana has over 30 years’ experience in teaching, designing and conducting qualitative research using focus group, interview, and ethnographic observational methods. She ran the Master’s in Research Methods Programme at Keele University, where she also founded and directed the Keele Centre for Ageing Research.
Dana has published widely on the lived experience of illness and disability, lesbian and gay ageing, later-life gender and sexuality, and ageing with HIV. In all her research, Dana has worked in close partnership with health care professionals, policy makers, and patients and members of the public to bring their voices and concerns into the research process and its outputs. She has expertise in translating scientific material for non-scientific audiences through publications, invited presentations and plenary addresses, and blogs.
Dana’s research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Medical Research Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Academy, the National Health Service, and the Leverhulme Trust. She serves on the editorial boards of several health and/or ageing-related scientific journals and on the advisory board of George House Trust’s Ageing Well programme.
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