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Emma Putland is a Senior Research Associate at the School of Social Sciences, Lancaster University, focusing on public discourses of dementia. She works on the project 'Public Discourses of Dementia: Challenging Stigma and Promoting Personhood' led by Dr. Gavin Brookes, combining corpus linguistics and multimodal discourse analysis to examine dementia representation.
Putland completed her PhD at the University of Nottingham in 2022, studying how individuals affected by dementia negotiate public discourses through focus groups and interviews. She is currently authoring an open-access book titled Navigating Dementia and Society (Bloomsbury, 2025), which builds on this work.
Her research spans health communication, dementia, ageing, environmental discourse, and mixed methods. Key projects include analyzing AI-generated dementia imagery and visual metaphors in healthcare contexts. She also explores medicalisation and gender representation in broader societal contexts.
Putland convenes the British Association of Applied Linguists' Health & Science Communication Special Interest Group and contributes to the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care (IC4CH) at Lancaster University. She has lectured at masters and undergraduate levels at Lancaster and Nottingham, co-led researcher groups, and served as Production Editor for the postgraduate-led Journal of Languages, Texts, and Society.
- Labs/Teams:
- Culture and Communication Research Network (CULCOM)
- FASS Health Hub
- Advising:
- PhD student: Christopher Sanderson
