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Felicity Slocombe – Imagining Dementia Futures: Newspaper representations of air pollution, social isolation and dementia

Here, Felicity Slocombe reflects on and summarises a recent talk that she co-presented with Emma Putland at the Imagining Dementia Futures conference at the University of Manchester. The talk – and this blog – explores how national UK newspapers represent two complex societal factors that increase the risk of dementia: social isolation and air pollution.

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“What matters in Applied Linguistics? And who determines what matters?”

After attending the 2022 conference of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, attendee Emma Putland reflects on some of the key themes and thinking points to emerge from the conference for her, orienting around two questions asked by the keynote speaker, Khawla Badwan: “What matters in Applied Linguistics? And who determines what matters?”