Dr Molly Hebditch

Biography

Dr Molly Hebditch is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Dementia Studies working on the Mixed methods evaluation of the Time for Dementia programme. Time for Dementia is a dementia educational programme for healthcare students and is led by the Brighton and Sussex Medical School as part of a multi stakeholder collaboration. It currently runs at 8 universities in England and is Funded by Health Education England.

Research

Molly's research interests include education in dementia and the improvement of quality of life and care practices for those affected by dementia. Her PhD explored medical and nursing student’s career preferences for working with people with dementia and how to increase interest in this field. Prior to this, Molly completed her MSc in research methods for Psychology at UCL.

Selected publications

Hebditch, M., Banerjee, S., Wright, J., & Daley, S. (2022). Preferences of newly qualified healthcare professionals for working with people with dementia: a qualitative study. Age and Ageing, 51(1), afab206.

Hebditch, M., Daley, S., Grosvenor, W., Sherlock, G., Wright, J., & Banerjee, S. (2022). Student nurses' career preferences for working with people with dementia: A longitudinal cohort study. Nurse education today, 111, 105303.

Banerjee, S., Jones, C., Wright, J., Grosvenor, W., Hebditch, M., Hughes, L., . . . Nilforooshan, R. (2021). A comparative study of the effect of the Time for Dementia programme on medical students. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 36(7), 1011-101

Hebditch, M., Daley, S., Wright, J., Sherlock, G., Scott, J., & Banerjee, S. (2020). Preferences of nursing and medical students for working with older adults and people with dementia: a systematic review. BMC Medical Education, 20, 1-11.

Daley, S., Feeney, Y., Grosvenor, W., Hebditch, M., Morley, L., Sleater, G., . . . Banerjee, S. (2020). A qualitative evaluation of the effect of a longitudinal dementia education programme on healthcare student knowledge and attitudes. Age and Ageing, 46(6), 1080-1086. doi:10.1093/ageing/afaa182

Cashin, Z., Daley, S., Hebditch, M., Hughes, L., & Banerjee, S. (2019). Involving people with dementia and their carers in dementia education for undergraduate healthcare professionals: a qualitative study of motivation to participate and experience. Int Psychogeriatr, 31(6), 869-876. doi:10.1017/s1041610218001357

Bickford, B., Daley, S., Sleater, G., Hebditch, M., & Banerjee, S. (2019). Understanding compassion for people with dementia in medical and nursing students. BMC Medical Education, 19(1), 35.

Banerjee, S., Farina, N., Daley, S., Grosvenor, W., Hughes, L., Hebditch, M., . . . de Vries, K. (2017). How do we enhance undergraduate healthcare education in dementia? A review of the role of innovative approaches and development of the Time for Dementia Programme. International journal of geriatric psychiatry, 32(1), 68-75.

Spector, A., Hebditch, M., Stoner, C. R., & Gibbor, L. (2016). A biopsychosocial vignette for case conceptualization in dementia (VIG-Dem): development and pilot study. International Psychogeriatrics, 28(9), 1471-1480. doi:10.1017/S1041610216000338

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