Meet the team and project partners

Senior Research Fellow

I work on this project full time, and my role is to manage the project and conduct the research. I have a particular interest in participatory methods, and the ethics of care. I have a longstanding interest in the experiences of people with dementia and their families, from a research and originally a practice background. My research is concerned with the ethics of service responses to the difficulties faced by people in everyday life.

Relevant publications:

Barnes M, Brannelly T, Ward L and Ward N (2015), Ethics of Care: Critical international perspectives, Bristol, Policy Press

Brannelly T, Boulton A and Wilson S (2013) Developing Citizens: Missed opportunities in Health and Social Service Provision? A view from Aotearoa New Zealand, Child and Youth Services doi: 10.1080/0145935X.2013.825545

Brannelly T (2011) Sustaining citizenship: older people with dementia and the phenomenon of social death, Nursing Ethics.

Professor of Law and the Philosophy of Public Health

I have expertise in law and ethics, and will be providing input on the ethico-legal foundations of, and constraints on, proposed solutions to the problems we are studying.

I have a long-standing interest in mental capacity law, especially in regard to questions concerning vulnerability as a legal concept, determinations of decision-making incapacity, and the application of the best interests standard. I am interested to explore these matters as applied to the project's aims and goals.

Relevant publications:

John Coggon, What Makes Health Public? A Critical Evaluation of Moral, Legal, and Political Claims in Public Health, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)

John Coggon and José Miola, “Autonomy, Liberty, and Medical Decision-Making,” Cambridge Law Journal (2011) 70:3, 523-547

John Coggon, “Varied and Principled Understandings of Autonomy in English Law: Justifiable Inconsistency or Blinkered Moralism?” Health Care Analysis (2007) 15:3, 235-255

Senior Research Fellow (The Open University)

My role on the project is to help the team to make sense of the data generated by the study, and in developing the practical guidance.

My interests in this project include understanding how older people and people living with disabilities approach new technologies in the context of their previous experiences; how they learn to use new technologies; and what motivates people to carry on using them or discard them. Mobile and wearable technologies extend the reach of assistive technologies into public places and I am interested in understanding whether and in what ways they can affect how people living with dementia interact with familiar and unfamiliar places. In addition the project will allow us to explore further the practical ethics of older people with dementia sharing information with family members and professionals such as police and social workers.

Publications:

Holland, C. (2015). 'Values and Ethics in making emerging technologies work for older people'. In: First International Conference, ITAP 2015 - Held as part of HCI International 2015 (Zhou, Jia and Gavriel, Salvendy eds.), 2-7 August 2015, Los Angeles, USA. Springer, pp. 201–209.

Holland, C. (2015) Public places and age In: Twigg, Julia and Martin, Wendy eds. Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology. Routledge International Handbooks.Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 455–462.

Tetley, J., Holland, C., Waights, V., Hughes J., Holland, S. and Warren, S. (2015) 'Exploring New Technologies through Playful Peer-to-Peer Engagement in Informal Learning'. In: Prendergast, David and Garattini, Chiara eds. Aging and the Digital Life Course. Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations. New York/Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 39–62.

Senior Lecturer

Associate Professor

Dave Brown Detective Chief Inspector, Hampshire Constabulary. Dave is interested in the role that police have in mutually beneficial prevention strategies for vulnerable adults.

Julia Lury, Occupational Therapist, Southern Health NHS Trust.  I work with the Community Mental Health Team East Southampton. I'm interested in promoting safer walking for older people with dementia, with the aim to keep people at home for longer and promote their independence.