Julia Twigg PhD

Julia Twigg is a Professor of Social Policy and Sociology at the University of Kent. Her recent work has focused on the role of dress in the constitution of age, exploring this through a series of interconnected projects. In 2013 she published Fashion and Age: Dress the Body and Later Life. She is currently completing a study on Dementia and Dress, exploring issues of personhood, embodiment, and memory. She plans further work on masculinity, dress, and age. She is actively engaged in debates around cultural gerontology and is co-editor with Wendy Martin of the Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology, forthcoming 2015. Her earlier work centered around embodiment and care, and the role of bodywork in this, publishing The Body in Health and Social Care.