Commentary on contemporary issues surrounding Dementia, from the Centre for Applied Dementia Studies, University of Bradford
What is heteronormativity? Heteronormativity (Warner, 1991) is a concept that was developed from within the overlapping fields of feminist theory, gender, and queer studies. It attempts to describe the way…
On 7th April I was one of the speakers at a one-day event on Dementia and Everyday Life: Creative Approaches at the University of Manchester. The event was jointly organised…
The Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia emphasised the need to create “dementia friendly communities that understand how to help”. Since then, dementia friendly communities have become a ‘hot topic’ in…
Last Wednesday our Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) celebrated its official start. I met with the other PhD students before the event, and we talked a little about the details of…
The award of the Queen’s Anniversary Prize was a huge event for our School, and we felt it would be good to mark the occasion with the launch of our…