Update on the New Dynamics of Ageing Programme Alan Walker Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology Department of Sociological Studies University of Sheffield  Director of the New Dynamics of Ageing Programme (AHRC, BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC and MRC)

The second round of Collaborative Research Projects will be short listed in mid January and, later this month, an Ideas Factory on Nutrition will take place.

NDA Programme Grants:

• Ageing, well-being and development. A comparative study of Brazil and South Africa
  Armando Barrientos, University of Manchester
• Transitions, choices and health at older ages: life course analyses of longitudinal data
  David Blane, Imperial College London
• Psychometric testing of the multidimensional older people's quality of life (OPQOL) questionnaire and the causal model of QoL under-pinning it
  Ann Bowling, University College London
• Detecting and preventing financial abuse of older adults: and examination of decision-making by managers and professionals
  Mary Gilhooly, Brunel University
• Maintaining dignity in later life: a longitudinal qualitative study of older people's experiences of supportive care
  Liz Lloyd, University of Bristol
• Innovation in envisioning dynamic biomechanical data to inform healthcare and design practice
  Alastair Macdonald, Glasgow School of Arts
• New metrics for exploring the relationship between mobility and successful ageing
  Lynn McInnes, Northumbria University
• Promoting independence and social engagement among older people in disadvantaged community
  Michael Murray, Keele University
• Older people's use of unfamiliar space
  Judith Phillips, University of Wales Swansea
• Ageing, poverty and neoliberalism in urban South India
  Penny Vera-Sanso, Birkbeck College, University of London
• Families and caring in South Asian communities
  Christina Victor, University of Reading
• Landscapes of cross-generational engagement
  Peter Wright, Sheffield Hallam University

Further information on the NDA Programme from http://www.newdynamics.group.shef.ac.uk/.

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