Interview with Dr Peta Cook, Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre.

Dr Peta Cook is a Senior Lecturer of Sociology (Ageing and Dementia Studies) at the Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre. She is a sociologist of knowledge, with a specific focus on ageing, medical science, health and illness, and identity and embodiment. Her research is primarily concerned with what forms of knowledge count and why; how this knowledge is produced; and personal mean-making and experiences of ageing, and health and illness. She has wide expertise in qualitative research methods, including interviews, focus groups, observation, discourse analysis, and photography. Experienced at sole and collaborative research, Peta frequently works in disciplinary and cross-disciplinary teams.

To know more about Dr Cook’s career and achievements visit: https://www.utas.edu.au/profiles/staff/wicking/peta-cook