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Catharine Gale is a Professor of Cognitive Epidemiology at the University of Southampton and holds a part-time role as a Reader in Cognitive Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh's Department of Psychology. She is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at Edinburgh and co-leads the Cognitive Epidemiology research group at the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology. Based in Hampshire, she works remotely and visits Edinburgh periodically.
Education: BSc (1st class) in Population Studies from the University of Southampton, followed by a PhD on antioxidant vitamins and cognitive decline at the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit (formerly the MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit).
Research focuses on cognitive function's relationship with health outcomes, the impact of wellbeing on health, and lifecourse influences on frailty in older adults. She leads cognitive epidemiology work across five research programs at the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit.
Teaching includes modules on cognitive ageing, ethics in research, and literature reviews. Current PhD students under her supervision include Judy Okely, Christina Wraw, Zander Crook, and Emma Waterston.
