Lesley Palmer is the is the acting Director and Chief Architect for the Dementia Services Development Centre (DSDC), University of Stirling, co-founder of INCH Architecture + Design and the CEO of Iridis Digital Ltd.

Lesley is also the Co-Chair of the Scottish Government’s Housing & Dementia Forum, a research member of the Centre for Environments, Dementia and Ageing Research and a Director of the Friends of the Pipe Factory CIC.

During her residency at Cove Park, Lesley will be researching and writing in preparation for her Churchill Fellowship; a 3-month residency in Fukuoka, Japan where she will be studying ‘Cognitive ageing: variations in urban design between the UK and Japan’. The project aims to identify, catalogue, and compare urban design characteristics which support healthy cognitive ageing in urban dwellers between two cities.