Professor Justine Schneider/Professor Dawn Brooker
University of Nottingham and Worcester
United Kingdom
The Arts in Dementia - TAnDem
Alzheimer's Society
474,529
01/07/2015
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Alzheimer's disease & other dementias
The purpose of the Nottingham Worcester Alzheimer Society Doctoral Training Centre (NWAS-DTC) is to build
research capacity and create new knowledge about the impact of arts-based activities and interventions on
people with dementia and their carers – both professionals and family or friends.
It will achieve this by training and supporting at least six full-time PhD students to complete their research,
publish and disseminate their findings. The students will be affiliated to a large DTC funded by the ESRC, with
access to a wealth of training opportunities at both Worcester and Nottingham universities. Their research and its
outputs will be enhanced through:
Supervision by academics who collectively have unparalleled expertise in the field of the arts and dementia in the
UK;
Students active membership of a large community of PhD students at both institutions;
Action learning sets to provide peer support and monthly academic meetings of the NWAS-DTC supervisors and
students;
Provision to engage directly with practising artists as co-researchers, consultants or research subjects;
Provision for active involvement of people with dementia and their carers;
Conferences on the arts and dementia organised by the NWAS-DTC students, with world-class speakers; and
Systematic attention to making a difference to people with dementia.