Generations Review

Generations Review is an open access, quarterly newsletter of the British Society of Gerontology, published on-line in January, April, July and October. All back issues from 2007 are available on the 'GR issues' page.

Generations Review provides a dynamic forum for sharing ideas, good practice, policy developments and research between BSG members at all stages of their ‘ageing’ career. It aims to enable all BSG members to engage with and discuss current developments in the field of ageing and to promote our shared aim of improving the lives of older people through our contributions to research, practice, policy and education.

To reflect the diverse areas of research, policy and practice represented by BSG members, Generations Review is divided into the following sections:

News and Reviews: News and views from BSG members that includes:
• up-to-date news of members;
• BSG news;
• reports from conferences and other events;
• reports on policy developments and changing practice;
• reviews of books, research reports and innovative practice/policy developments.

What’s On: Advertisements of future events, conferences and seminars etc. of interest to BSG members.

Profile: A BSG member, an ageing organisation and/or research centre is profiled every issue.

Research: A forum to present up-to-date research and methodological developments in ageing research. This includes:
• presentations of research findings;
• current research being undertaken by BSG members;
• postgraduate research;
• abstracts of recently completed PhDs.

Policy and Practice: A forum to facilitate discussion and share information about key developments in policy and practice in the area of ageing.

Education and Careers: A forum to discuss developments in teaching and learning in ageing and social gerontology and to explore how membership of the BSG can promote and support members at all stages of their career.


Being involved

The co-editors welcome:
• any ideas for contributions;
• items of news;
• BSG related advertisements;
• articles for consideration in the newsletter.

The dates for submission for each copy of Generations Review are:
15th December for the January issue
15th March for the April issue
15th June for the July issue
15th September for the October issue

Submissions may be either short commentaries (up to 500 words) or longer articles (1,500 words maximum). Full references in Harvard style to be included when required. Visual images and graphics are welcomed and any hyperlinks to relevant WebPages, homepages, ageing centres etc. can be included within the on-line format.

Submissions to be sent electronically by e.mail: britishgerontology_at_yahoo.co.uk . (Please substitute the correct symbol for the word 'at' in this address)

Please contact the co-editors if you would prefer to submit your work in a different format. All submissions will be acknowledged. Potential contributors will be informed of the outcome of their submission and the date of publication when accepted. Please include author’s name(s), affiliations, e-mail addresses and telephone numbers for the purposes of communication with the co-editors.

We look forward to hearing from all our BSG colleagues.


Co-editors:

Wendy Martin, Samuel R. Nyman, Christina Victor, Veronika Williams

E-mail: britishgerontology_at_yahoo.co.uk

School of Health and Social Care, University of Reading, Bulmershe Court, Earley, Reading. RG6 1HY.

Tel: +44 (0)118 378 5842 / 8855