I joined the Centre for Applied Dementia Studies in January 2024 and I am a Lecturer in Dementia Studies. I am the current Module Leader for Evidence-based Dementia Practice, a module which critically explores and evaluates evidence from research, policy and narrative sources to help students make recommendations in their practice based from this broad evidence-base appraisal.
My background is in Communication and Media, and Social Psychology. I have recently completed my PhD thesis which is entitled 'Understanding identity and representations in dementia: A conversation analytic and discursive analysis'. As well as teaching, I am interested in many research topics around dementia. This includes detailed analysis of interactions between people living with dementia and their various conversation partners, using the approach of conversation analysis, and how dementia is represented in the media and how this can impact stigma of dementia. I am really excited to develop and widen my interests here at Bradford.
I am interested in how identity of people living with dementia is supported in interaction. My research uses conversation analysis to look at identity is managed interactionally between people living with dementia and others in their own homes and care homes. I am also interested in how people with different identities in relation to dementia interpret media representations of dementia, especially related to risk factors.
I am the Module Leader for 'Evidence-based Dementia Practice'. This module gives students the opportunity to consider the value of different types of evidence, including the role research plays in evidence-based practice, as well as other types of evidence such as clinical intuition/experience, narrative accounts from people with dementia and policy. Students explore evidence in relation to an area of practice need and formulate evidence-based recommendations for changing practice.
Felicity Slocombe;Elizabeth Peel;Alison Pilnick;Saul Albert (2024) Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine.
Felicity Slocombe (2021) Qualitative Methods in Psychology Bulletin .