About the Project
The creation of ‘dementia friendly communities’ is rapidly growing in international political agendas. This is evident for example in The Prime Minister’s challenge, supported by the Alzheimer’s Society, of creating dementia friendly communities. These strategies are intended to tackle the discrimination and exclusion that people living with dementia experience and ask that all community members – local government, local businesses, and the general public – to take responsibility for ensuring the inclusivity of people with dementia in where they live. Despite this, what actually constitutes a dementia friendly community is difficult to determine. What is evident however is that people’s individual needs vary; and that the sites where care and support for people with dementia occurs, and the nature of those locations, is critically important. For instance, people with dementia can find outside spaces both enabling and disabling, but supporting those with dementia to stay within their own homes for as long as possible is also key to helping older people maintain a sense of self and identity. This studentship will explore the ‘everyday’ places that people with dementia inhabit, and move through, to critically examine how the vision of dementia friendly communities takes shape in lived realities.
Eligibility and How to Apply
Please note eligibility requirement:
• Academic excellence of the proposed student i.e. 2:1 (or equivalent GPA from non-UK universities [preference for 1st class honours]); or a Masters (preference for Merit or above); or APEL evidence of substantial practitioner achievement.
• Appropriate IELTS score, if required.
• Applicants cannot apply for this funding if currently engaged in Doctoral study at Northumbria or elsewhere.
For further details of how to apply, entry requirements and the application form, see
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/research/postgraduate-research-degrees/how-to-apply/
Please note: Applications that do not include a research proposal of approximately 1,000 words (not a copy of the advert), or that do not include the advert reference (e.g. RDF18/…) will not be considered.
Deadline for applications: 28 January 2018
Start Date: 1 October 2018
Northumbria University takes pride in, and values, the quality and diversity of our staff. We welcome applications from all members of the community. The University holds an Athena SWAN Bronze award in recognition of our commitment to improving employment practices for the advancement of gender equality and is a member of the Euraxess network, which delivers information and support to professional researchers.
References
Recent publications by supervisors relevant to this project:
1. Brittain KR, Degnen C, Gibson G, Dickinson C, Robinson L. (2017) When walking becomes wandering: representing the fear of the fourth age. Sociology of Health & Illness, 1;39(2):270-84.
2. Morrissey K, Garbett A, Wright PC, Olivier P, Jenkins E, Brittain KR (2017) Care and Connect: exploring dementia-friendliness through an online community commissioning platform. In: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 6 – 1 May 2017, Denver, USA.
3. Newton L, Dickinson C, Gibson G, Brittain K, & Robinson AL. (2016) Exploring the views of GPs, people with dementia and their carers on assistive technology: a qualitative study. BMJ open, 6(5), e011132.
4. Gibson, G., Dickinson, C., Brittain, K., & Robinson, L. (2015). The everyday use of assistive technology by people with dementia and their family carers: a qualitative study. BMC Geriatrics, 15(1), 89.
5. Gibson, G., Newton, L., Pritchard, G., Finch, T., Brittain, K., & Robinson, L. (2014). The provision of assistive technology products and services for people with dementia in the United Kingdom. Dementia, 1471301214532643.
6. Robinson AL, Gibson G, Kingston A, Newton L, Pritchard G, Finch T & Brittain KR. (2013). Assistive technologies in caring for the oldest old: review of current practice and future directions. Aging and Health; 9(4):365-375.
7. Brittain KR, Corner L, Robinson AL, Bond J. (2010) Ageing in place and technologies of place: the lived experience of people with dementia in changing social, physical and technological environments. Sociology of Health and Illness; 32(2):272-287.
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