Dr Edward Tolhurst

• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Advisory Group Member – European Sociological Association’s Research Network on Ageing in Europe
• Lay Member - Coventry and Warwick NHS Research Ethics Committee 

• PhD in Health Studies, Staffordshire University
• PgCert in Higher and Professional Education, Staffordshire University
• MA in Social Research, University of Warwick
• BA (Hons) Sociology and Social Policy, University of Liverpool
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• Dementia and care
• Ageing, dignity, and safety

• British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants (2018) - £2,813 “How do women with dementia and their spousal partners experience the impact of the condition?”
• British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants (2023) - £5,433 “How can the personhood of dementia care workers be supported?”
  
  

• Course leader – Postgraduate awards in Medical Education
• Leader – Step Up to Master’s Module
• Leader – Master’s Dissertations
• I teach on further modules at Postgraduate and Undergraduate levels, including Dementia Awareness, Research, Leadership, and Risk and Decision-Making.

• I supervise doctoral students
• I review/examine PhD work, and Chair PhD vivas

Articles

Tolhurst, E. & Weicht, B. (2023) Navigating the Experience of Dementia: The experience of male spousal carers. Healthcare. [forthcoming] 

Tolhurst, E. Weicht, B. & Runacres, J. (2023) Sustaining Relational Subjectivity: The perspectives of women with dementia. Sociology of Health and Illness, 45(3): 503-521. 

Weicht, B. & Tolhurst, E. (2023) The Spousal Unit and Dementia: Investigating the relational basis of the couplehood concept. Healthcare, 11, 2191. 

Wells, A. & Tolhurst, E. (2021) In-hours Acute Home Visits by Advanced Nurse Practitioners in Primary Care: a qualitative study. British Journal of Nursing, 30(13):788-792.

Hall, M. & Tolhurst, E. (2020) Supporting Self-Management of Type 2 Diabetes within a Primary Care Setting. Journal of Diabetes Nursing. 24(5).

Tolhurst, E., Carey, M., Weicht, B. & Kingston, K. (2019) Is Living Well with Dementia a Credible Aspiration for Spousal Carers? Health Sociology Review, 28(1): 54-68.

Tolhurst, E. & Weicht, B. (2018) Unyielding Selflessness: Relational negotiations, dementia and care, Journal of Aging Studies, 47: 32-38.

Tolhurst, E., Weicht, B. & Kingston, P. (2017) Narrative Collisions, Sociocultural Pressures and Dementia: The relational basis of personhood reconsidered. Sociology of Health and Illness, 39(2): 212-226.

Tolhurst, E. & Weicht, B. (2017) Preserving Personhood: The strategies of men negotiating the experience of dementia. Journal of Aging Studies, 40: 29-35.

Tolhurst, E. (2016) The Burgeoning Interest in Young Onset Dementia: Redressing the balance or reinforcing ageism? International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, 10(2): 9-29.

Tolhurst, E., Bhattacharyya, S. & Kingston, P. (2014) Young Onset Dementia: the impact of emergent age-based factors upon personhood. Dementia, 13(2): 193-206.

Tolhurst, E. & Kingston, P. (2013) Understanding the Experience of Dementia: Utilising the theoretical insights of ‘status passage’. Social Theory & Health, 11(2): 175–193.

Tolhurst, E. (2012) Grounded Theory Method: Sociology's quest for exclusive items of inquiry. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 13(3), Art. 26.

Conference Presentations

Sociology of Health and Medicine (ESA RN16) Conference – Prague: ‘Relational Narratives: The experience of women with dementia and their male spousal partners’ (May 2023).

ESA Research Network on Ageing in Europe, 6th PhD Workshop – Vienna: ‘Negotiating the PhD Process: What I wish I had known [Keynote]’ (July 2022).

ESA Research Network on Ageing in Europe, 4th Midterm Conference – Brno, Czech Republic: ‘Unyielding Selflessness: Strategic interaction and the negotiation of care relationships’ (September 2018).

13th European Sociological Association Conference – Athens: ‘Anti-reductionist sociology as a basis for dementia studies’ (September 2017).

23rd Nordic Congress of Gerontology – Tampere, Finland: ‘Stoical acceptance and active endeavour: the strategies of men negotiating the experience of dementia’ (June 2016).

International Institute of Qualitative Methodology, 15th Qualitative Methods Conference - Glasgow: ‘Qualitative inquiry and the sociological imagination: narrative collisions, sociocultural pressures and dementia’ (May 2016).

10th UK Dementia Congress - Telford: ‘The experiential impacts of cognitive function tests upon men with dementia and their carers’ (November 2015).

ESA Research Network on Ageing in Europe, 2nd Midterm Conference – Klagenfurt, Austria: ‘The burgeoning focus on young onset dementia: redressing the balance or reflecting ageism?’ (September 2014).

European Society on Family Relations, 7th Annual Congress – Madrid: Invited Symposium (coordinator and presenter) ‘Dementia and the family: developing a textured relational framework’, with Benbow, S., Hellström, I. & Lovatt, M. (September 2014).

Qualitative Health Research, 19th Annual Conference - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada: ‘Joint interviews and research into the experience of dementia’ (October 2013).