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Dr James Fletcher
Name:
Dr James Fletcher
Job Title:
Assistant Professor in Digital Futures
Place of work / study:
University of Bath
Area of research:
Informal care networks, mental capacity legislation, anti-stigma and awareness-raising campaigns, operationalisations of ethnicity and age, the biomarker discovery economy, dementia-friendliness, preventative public health strategies and urban cognition
How is your work funded?
ESRC and Wellcome Trust
Tell us a little about yourself:
I work on researching informal care networks, mental capacity legislation, anti-stigma and awareness-raising campaigns, operationalisations of ethnicity and age, the biomarker discovery economy, dementia-friendliness, preventative public health strategies and urban cognition. I also like concrete, dinosaurs and pubs.
Tell us a fun fact about yourself:
As a child I fished competitively
Why did you choose to work in dementia?
Personal experience and Patrick Fox’s 1989 paper “From Senility to Alzheimer’s Disease”
What single piece of advise would you give to an early career researcher?
Network
What book are you reading right now? Would you recommend it?
Nick Lane – The Vital Question (would recommend)
Favourite film of all time?
24 Hour Party People
Favourite ways to unplug and unwind?
Running
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