Dr Serena Sabatini

Dr Sabatini has a PhD in Psychology (University of Exeter) on the topic of Awareness of age-related change and its associations with cognitive, mental, and physical health and well-being in later life. After obtaining her PhD, she worked as Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Exeter for the Improving the Experience of Dementia and Enhancing Active Life program which explores how psychosocial and medical factors relate to the experiences of people with dementia and their carers. She then worked as Postdoctoral Researcher at the Università della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland), with focus on the Corona Immunitas project which studies the spread of COVID-19 infection and its impact on the physical, mental, and cognitive health of the Swiss population. She then moved for one year at the University of Nottingham as Economic and Social Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow where she investigated the bidirectional relationships between self-perceptions of ageing and health-related behaviours and health. She is currently a Lecturer in Psychology and conducting research on self-perceptions of ageing, dementia, and caregiving.