This course is for non-clinically qualified staff (e.g. assistant psychologists, dementia support workers) supporting people with dementia and their families, or qualified psychologists/service managers who want training to set up, deliver or oversee DREAMS: START delivery in their service/organisation.

DREAMS: START is a six-session intervention developed to help people with dementia with sleep problems and reduce the impact on them and their family. DREAMS: START is the first safe and effective treatment for sleep disturbance in dementia; it improves sleep in the short (after 8 months) and long term (after 2 years) for people with dementia and also improves family carers sleep and is cost-effective. It is manualised and uses strategies adapted for each person like increasing light, activity, comfort, routine and relaxation. People without clinical training deliver DREAMS: START individually to family carers.

This course includes:

2x half-day training sessions, including 8 hours of training delivered by the UCL clinical team on September 22nd and 29th

1x full day sign off and accreditation session delivered on October 5th.

+ course and delivery materials

Note: Staff intending to deliver DREAMS: START sessions are advised to sign up to the entire course (training + accreditation sessions). Senior qualified staff may wish to join the training sessions only

Abstract

This course covers the fundamental developments in Mendelian randomization and gives practical explanations about how to apply MR to applied research questions. This in person course will cover: one-sample, two-sample, pleiotropy robust methods, within family and drug target MR. Each method will be explained with applied examples, along with the recommended sensitivity analyses, validation, and specification tests to assess the plausibility of MR analysis. The course provides pre-readings and recorded lectures and aims to get students up to speed on how to undertake and publish high-quality Mendelian randomization studies. 

This course is for non-clinically qualified staff (e.g. assistant psychologists, dementia workers) supporting family carers of people with dementia, or qualified psychologists/service managers who want training to set up, deliver or oversee START delivery in their service/organisation.

The course includes: 

1 full day training session including 6 hours of training delivered by UCL clinical team on the 22nd June 2026. 

4 x 2-hour accreditation sessions delivered over 1.5 days by UCL clinical team on the 1st & 8th July 2026. 

+ Course and delivery materials. 

Note: Staff intending to deliver START sessions are advised to sign up to the entire course (training + accreditation sessions). Senior qualified/service managers staff may wish to join the training session only. 

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