Dementia: Towards a Multi-Species Perspective
Award Number
218928/Z/19/ZProgramme
Small Grants in Humanities and Social ScienceStatus / Stage
CompletedDates
1 October 2019 -31 March 2021
Duration (calculated)
01 years 05 monthsFunder(s)
Wellcome TrustFunding Amount
£30,000.00Funder/Grant study page
Wellcome TrustContracted Centre
University of the West of ScotlandPrincipal Investigator
Dr Nicholas JenkinsPI Contact
Nick.Jenkins@uws.ac.ukPI ORCID
0000-0001-5039-6822WHO Catergories
Methodologies and approaches for risk reduction researchDisease Type
Dementia (Unspecified)CPEC Review Info
| Reference ID | 291 |
|---|---|
| Researcher | Reside Team |
| Published | 12/06/2023 |
Data
| Award Number | 218928/Z/19/Z |
|---|---|
| Status / Stage | Completed |
| Start Date | 20191001 |
| End Date | 20210331 |
| Duration (calculated) | 01 years 05 months |
| Funder/Grant study page | Wellcome Trust |
| Contracted Centre | University of the West of Scotland |
| Funding Amount | £30,000.00 |
Abstract
Dementia is one of the most significant global challenges of the 21st century; yet, since the late 18th century our understandings of dementia have been based upon mono-species worldviews, in which the impact of neurocognitive disease upon indivisible human subjects has been the primary focus of investigation. Drawing on cutting-edge research from across the humanities, social sciences and biological sciences, this project will chart the contours of an alternative (multi-species) perspective, in which relations between human and non-human bodies becomes the primary lens for understanding dementia and its affects. We will build on the success of an initial multi-disciplinary workshop, held at UWS in May 2019 (and funded by the British Society of Gerontology), to establish a new, international and multi-disciplinary network of researchers. We will facilitate three meetings of the network over the lifetime of the project. Meetings will be informed by Jabereen’s (2009) eight-phased process for building a shared conceptual framework. We will produce a detailed proposal, and draft chapters, for a path-breaking edited collection (‘Dementia: A Multi-Species Perspective’) based on members’ research and the network’s emergent, shared conceptual framework. In so doing, the project will stimulate new ways of understanding and cultivating multi-species approaches to dementia.
Aims
The project will stimulate new ways of understanding and cultivating multi-species approaches to dementia.