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Asked by anon-237767 to Peter, Mhairi, Madeleine, Catherine, Andrew on 13 Mar 2020.
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Catherine Talbot answered on 13 Mar 2020:
My most surprising finding was that people with dementia were using social media posts to remind them of their memories! You know the ‘memories’ photo on Facebook that shows you your posts from a few years ago? They used this function to remember activities they’d done, which was comforting for them.
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Madeleine Pownall answered on 13 Mar 2020:
Great question, Amelia. I study gender stereotypes and some people have asked me if the work I do is still needed. Some people think that we have ‘achieved’ gender equality and therefore there are no gender stereotypes. In a recent study I conducted, I was surprised to learn that gender stereotypes are very much ‘still a thing’ and people tend to believe in them.
I think people don’t always think that that’s true, but my data supports it!
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Mhairi Bowe answered on 14 Mar 2020:
In my PhD work (quite a few years ago now!) I studied how important places are for memory, identity and well-being. I was really surprised at how emotional people felt about houses and places from their life – especially when places changed or people had to move without choice. It was like a grief reaction that people didn’t forget. Similarly places can make people feel secure, and can help people express and remember who they are.
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Andrew McNeill answered on 18 Mar 2020:
When I was researching how people talked about being victims of the conflict in Northern Ireland, it surprised me that people weren’t consistent in the way they talked about it. Sometimes they would say that they were the most important victims, and sometimes they would say that everyone was a victim. That led me to explore why people vary what they say about victimhood in conversations. I had expected that people would be completely consistent.
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