Sarah Crabtree joined the Cicely Saunders Institute in November 2022 as the Public Involvement Coordinator and Research Assistant. Palliative Care is close to her heart through personal experience as well as professional placements and volunteering in palliative care settings. She is trained as a music therapist and through this work and her research has experience working with people living with dementia. She has recently completed her PhD VIVA exploring how different musical activities are used to improve cognition and reduce behavioural and psychological symptoms for people living with dementia.