MASTERCLASSES

Gloria Wong is a psychologist with PhD training in psychiatry. She is an Associate Professor at the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, and Honorary Associate Professor at the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong. Her research covers dementia, psychosis, and preventive mental health in older adults and young people. She is co-leading an integrated prevention programme for late-life depression JC JoyAge (https://research.jcjoyage.hk/), testing its real-world implementation at scale (involving >10,000 participants), focusing on model development for co-care between health and social care services. She is also co-leading collaborative research on virtual Cognitive Stimulation Therapy and ICT-enriched carer support. Dr Wong publishes extensively, including two books, six book chapters, and over 140 journal articles, including the recent title Casebook of Dementia: A Reference Guide for Primary Care, which is freely available from CambridgeCore.

Martin Knapp is Professor of Health and Social Care Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), based in the Health Policy Department. He is also a Professorial Research Fellow in the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC; formerly PSSRU) at the LSE. Since 2023, Martin has been Programme Director for the Research Programme for Social Care, part of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) in England. From 2009 until 2024, he was also Director of the NIHR School for Social Care Research. Martin's main research interests are in the areas of social care (often called long-term care), child and adult mental health, dementia and neurodiversity. Much of his work uses economic arguments and evidence to inform policy discussion and influence practice development. His research has had wide-ranging impacts on policy and practice in several fields .