Dr Clare Dolman is a researcher and mental health advocate. Her PhD at King’s College London focused on women with bipolar disorder’s decision-making around pregnancy and childbirth, a subject she knew about as she has Bipolar herself and experienced a postpartum psychosis after the birth of her first child.
Clare was Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Lead for the Women’s Mental Health Section at King’s College for a decade and is currently a consultant on various national and international research projects involving women’s mental health, especially in relation to hormonal events such as childbirth and menopause.
She was awarded the Patient and Public Involvement Award from the International Society for Affective Disorders in 2024.
She is Co-Chair pf the Bipolar Commission and an Ambassador and former Chair of Bipolar UK. She is also a trustee of the charities Maternal Mental Health Alliance , Action on Postpartum Psychosis and the Global Alliance for Maternal Mental Health.
TESTIMONIALS
"Thank you to Clare for sharing her lived experience so generously and sharing the work she has done to use her experience as a resource to help others - very inspirational."
"Thank you for your wonderful session, I learnt a lot and hope to use it in my clinical practice"
"Reinforced to me why I do this job."