Our team's new article on visual discourse and AI-generated images of dementia is trending in #communication today! You can read it here (it's open access): tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Emma Putland @emma-putland.bsky.social Gavin Brookes

Exciting news for us! 18th April is the publication day of a new book about our wonderful #DementiaEnquirers prog. It is available for pre-order at JKP, Waterstones and Amazon. If you order direct from the publishers at JKP Books then use HEART20 in the UK to get a 20% discount!

Have you seen #KnowledgeisPower (England)- ordered so far by drs surgeries, memory services, dementia groups. Co-created with people with #dementia. You can read it free here, alongside #KiPWales & #KiPScotland dementiavoices.org.uk/deep-resources… Email: [email protected] for orders

Language has the potential to contribute to and/or resist dementia stigma. How might it do this? What does research say? See our new #openaccess scoping review in the Journal of Language and Aging Research for more! By Emma Putland @emma-putland.bsky.social and Gavin Brookes ⬇️ journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup2/jlar/arti…

A little late tweeting this, but I'm very excited to be at NAU for the next six months as a Fulbright Visiting Researcher! 🇺🇸 Thanks everyone here for helping me feel welcome and settled! The Fulbright Program US-UK Fulbright Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni FASS Research Lancaster University Public Discourses of Dementia

Fascinating question! Paging Public Discourses of Dementia - our #language expert friends 😊

Had a great day at The University of Arizona, presenting work from the Public Discourses of Dementia project! Thanks, @StaplesShelley for inviting and hosting me for a couple of days in Tucson! Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni FASS Research Lancaster University

Enjoying a very engaging and thought provoking talk by Chris Sanderson on the assumptions and implications of social media engagement metrics at the joint Health and Science Communication SIG and New Media SIG Digital Health Communication event today!

Delighted to see that our scoping review (with Gavin Brookes) about visualizing #dementia and stigma is out in Visual Communication today! If you're interested, you can read it #openaccess here: doi.org/10.1177/147035… Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni FASS Research Lancaster University @Sage_VCJ Public Discourses of Dementia

Out now: 'Visualizing dementia and stigma: A scoping review of the literature'. #Openaccess article in @Sage_VCJ, led by Emma Putland @emma-putland.bsky.social as part of the Public Discourses of Dementia project! Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni FASS Research Lancaster University. You can read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14….

I'm back in Europe for conference season, and today I'm in Rome to give a keynote speech at the Aftershock Conference on linguistics and literature. I'll be speaking about #dementia, multimodal discourse analysis, generative #AI & ideological bias. Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni Public Discourses of Dementia

Today we're happy to share a new blog post by Emma Putland @emma-putland.bsky.social, which is 'looking' at: 👀'Eyes, gaze and vision: Do humans and AI see “eye to eye” when it comes to representing people living with dementia?' You can read it here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/public-discour…

proud of our article, available open access!! In it we explore how reminiscence activities are structured and how both carers and people with dementia contribute to reminiscing

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We're delighted to share Sih-Ying Hsieh (Iris Hsieh)'s blog post, which presents a case study of the 'Time Machine Project' in Taiwan, focusing on the potential of generating AI images as part of reminiscence therapy 🖼️ Interested? You can read more here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/public-discour…

Honoured to be listed in the top 2% of scientists in the world, alongside great colleagues from Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni (and elsewhere!).

Home now after a busy week in Shanghai for the GCA conference at Tongji University, where I spoke about AI dementia representation. A strong showing from Lancaster University, including online talks from @TonyMcEnery and Joe Burton, too. Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni Public Discourses of Dementia CASS

Happy to share our latest blog post by guest author Dr Felicity Slocombe, which discusses some work with Emma Putland @emma-putland.bsky.social exploring how UK newspapers represent social isolation and air pollution in relation to #dementia. See: wp.lancs.ac.uk/public-discour…