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Profile – Dr James Fletcher, University of Bath

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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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