Emma & Sue Williams - A what? A Public Advisor Researcher? You may well ask…

Dementia Researcher Blogs · Aug 6, 2026 · 7m

Emma Williams and Sue Williams discuss their work.

Emma and Sue have a job title that stops conversations. Public Advisor Researcher. They did not know what it meant when they applied, and two years on they are still explaining it to other people, including to public advisors who now think they have gone over to the other side. Both came to it through caring, Emma for her Mam who had frontotemporal dementia, Sue for her father and later for a close friend. Now they write topic guides, recruit participants, run interviews and work on the analysis, while still being carers themselves. In this…