'Perspectives' asks early-career researchers, who are funded by Research Councils
UK, to present and explore the social implications of their work. Gemma Webster's
poster about dementia, 'What's in a label?', has won this year's competition. The
poster is designed to look like a food label at first glance. It describes Helen,
an 87-year old woman with dementia, in the terms of popular stereotype: "Directions:
Place contents in a chair and move once or twice a day".
Gemma, who is a PhD student at the University of Dundee, explained that it "aims
to help staff see the whole person, not just the illness, and treat the person as
an individual not simply a set of needs to service… A commonly held view is that
older people are not as valuable or interesting as the young members of society.
The aim of this poster is to challenge that view and show that older people are
valuable assets to our society."
For further information please visit the British Science Association's website:
http://www.britishscienceassociation.org/
The poster is available to view
here.
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Research Councils UK is the strategic partnership of the UK's seven Research
Councils; they invest annually around £3 billion in research, covering the full
spectrum of academic disciplines from the medical and biological sciences to astronomy,
physics, chemistry and engineering, social sciences, economics, and the arts and
humanities.
The seven UK Research Councils are:
- Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC);
- Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC);
- Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC);
- Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC);
- Medical Research Council (MRC);
- Natural Environment Research Council (NERC);
- Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC).