PhD researcher from Sheffield, studing at Loughborough University. Her research focuses on identity and dementia and how identity can be managed interactionally – how we can help support identity of people living with dementia through our conversations. One part of the project will involve using conversation analysis to look at videotaped interactions between people with dementia and various others (family / carers / healthcare professionals) and interrogate how identity is constructed in talk. Another part of the research will look at media representations of dementia in newspaper coverage, analysing the discourses within these. Key examples from the analysis of newspaper representations will then form the discussion for focus groups with people with dementia and family carers. As part of the research outputs, a communication workshop will be piloted with carers.