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NICE Social Care Fellowship
Posted on 19 March 2012
Mo Ray has been appointed as a NICE social care fellow as part of the 2012 Fellowship intake. The three year fellowship attracts high profile social care professionals with the capacity to influence practice, who are committed to evidence and research based practice as well as advising NICE as it develops its social care programme.
Ageing Without Children
Posted on 01 February 2012
Dr Mo Ray (Centre for Social Gerontology, Keele University) and Mary Pat Sullivan (Brunel University) have been awarded a £3,000 grant by the Averil Osborn Fund to undertake some exploratory research exploring the experience of ageing without children.
‘Life after a PhD’ for researchers on ageing and later life
Posted on 04 January 2012
Hosted by the Centre for Social Gerontology (CSG) in collaboration with the Emerging Researchers in Ageing (ERA) group of the British Society of Gerontology, Friday December 9th 2011 saw around 30 students, post-doctoral researchers and staff gather at Keele for this one-day conference in the Moser Research Centre.
Ages and Stages Blog
Posted on 08 December 2011
The Ages and Stages project now has a blog: http://www.agesandstagesproject.blogspot.com/
Living with HIV in later years
Posted on 08 December 2011
http://www.keele.ac.uk/pressreleases/2011/livingwithhivinlateryears.php
British Society of Gerontology Annual Conference 2012 at Keele
Posted on 06 October 2011
The website for next year’s annual conference of the British Society of Gerontology is now live.
Growing Older in Urban Environments: Perspectives from Japan and the UK
Posted on 14 September 2011
A report of a symposium on growing older in urban environments is now available to download. The symposium was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in association with the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and the International Longevity Centre (Japan/UK).
Impact of Ageing Societies on Urban Populations
Posted on 07 April 2011
Professor Chris Phillipson, Centre for Social Gerontology, organised a Symposium at the end of March 2011 in London sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science.
FUTURAGE
Posted on 04 October 2010
Chris Phillipson has become a member of the Council of Scientists (CoS) for the FUTURAGE Project.
New President of the British Society of Gerontology
Posted on 02 August 2010
Professor Miriam Bernard, Director of the Centre for Social Gerontology, has taken up the role of President of the British Society of Gerontology (BSG), following the Society's 39th annual conference at Brunel University. Mim will lead the Society's work for the next two years.
Global Perspectives on Ageing Societies
Posted on 01 July 2010
Chris Phillipson has just published (with Dale Dannefer of Case Western Reserve University) the Sage Handbook of Social Gerontology. The Handbook contains 50 chapters written by leading researchers in the field of ageing.
New Director
Posted on 01 June 2010
Professor Miriam Bernard has taken on the role of Director of the Centre for Social Gerontology following the recent departure of Prof Tom Scharf to head up the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology at the National University of Ireland in Galway.
Summer School in Social Gerontology at Keele University
Posted on 01 March 2010
The Centre for Social Gerontology is to host a summer school focusing on the study of ageing and late life. The six-day event will explore current trends in gerontology research, looking at themes including social policy and family life.
Theatre as a Pathway to Healthy Ageing
Posted on 01 March 2010
The multi-research council funded New Dynamics of Ageing Ages and Stages project, led by Mim Bernard, is set to collaborate with Canadian colleagues following a successful bid under the "Canadian Institutes for Health Research-UK 'New Dynamics of Ageing' Research Initiative".
The Lost Generation
Posted on 01 March 2010
Dana Rosenfeld has been awarded £7,440 by The British Academy as Principal Investigator for a two-year project titled 'The Lost Generation': The Social Worlds of Older Gay Male Survivors of the AIDS Epidemic.'
First-Class Opportunities for Older Learners
Posted on 01 March 2010
A new Universities UK report, Active ageing and universities, produced by Chris Phillipson and Jim Ogg, a Fellow of the Centre for Social Gerontology, was launched recently at a conference that examined how the higher education sector might respond to growing demand for higher education courses from older learners.
International Network on Critical Gerontology
Posted on 01 March 2010
Twenty-one established and career young researchers gathered at Keele at the beginning of February for a two-day seminar exploring critical approaches to the study of ageing.
Ages and Stages Website
Posted on 01 February 2010
A website for the 'Ages and Stages' project, led by Professor Miriam Bernard of the Centre for Social Gerontology, has been launched. http://www.keele.ac.uk/agesandstages
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