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Chloe Fawns-Ritchie is a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. She completed her PhD in Psychology at the same institution in 2019. During her PhD, she worked as a psychometric testing officer at the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology and as a research assistant for the Dementias Platform UK. Fawns-Ritchie spent several years as a Questionnaire Officer and Postdoctoral Researcher on the Generation Scotland study, which is a large family-health study. Prior to her current position, she was a psychology lecturer at the University of Dundee. Since returning to the University of Edinburgh in 2024, she has been involved in postgraduate teaching, serving as the course organiser for Applied Psychometrics, and contributing to the Psychological Research Skills program. Her research interests include the bidirectional relationship between cognitive function and health, specifically examining health factors that may explain why some individuals experience faster cognitive decline. She is particularly interested in the relationship between chronic pain, opioid prescribing, and cognitive ageing, as well as the functional consequences of declining cognitive function in managing personal finances in old age.
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