Do you enjoy reading and talking about books? Would you like to take part in a fun, interactive reading group looking at how dementia is represented in fiction? We\u2019re looking for enthusiastic individuals with little or no personal experience of dementia to take part in an important research project based at Queen\u2019s University Belfast. All contributions from the group will play a valuable part in exploring how dementia is depicted in contemporary novels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The online reading group will meet on Zoom one evening a week for 6 weeks during April and May. They\u2019ll take place on Thursday evenings at 7pm and will last a maximum of 90 minutes. At each meeting, the researchers will read two short excerpts from two different novels while you follow along with the print copies provided. You\u2019ll be asked to complete a short questionnaire and get involved in a group discussion. We\u2019re interested in your opinion and value your ideas and contributions. There\u2019s no such thing as a wrong answer. The sessions will be audio-recorded so that they can be transcribed for our research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you\u2019re interested, you can find out a little more about the project on our website<\/a>. If you\u2019ve got any questions or would like to sign up please get in contact with Carolina at dementiafictionreadinggroup@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019d hoped to be conducting these readings groups in person and getting to know you in real life. As we can\u2019t provide the usual tea and cakes, we\u2019ll be posting out welcome packs including sachets of hot drinks and biscuits to be enjoyed while we chat. We\u2019d also like to offer you a \u00a320 book token as a thank-you for completing the reading group sessions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Spaces are limited so we\u2019d encourage you to sign up asap. This is a fantastic opportunity to help out with an important research project whilst getting to know some new people. We\u2019d love to have you on board. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do you enjoy reading and talking about books? Would you like to take part in a fun, interactive reading group looking at how dementia is represented in fiction? We\u2019re looking for enthusiastic individuals with little or no personal experience of dementia to take part in an important research project based at Queen\u2019s University Belfast. All […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[92,93],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-reading-group","tag-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/dementiafiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/dementiafiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/dementiafiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/dementiafiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/dementiafiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/dementiafiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/dementiafiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/dementiafiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/dementiafiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/dementiafiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}