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The British Society of Gerontology provides a multidisciplinary forum for researchers and other individuals interested in the situations of older people, and in how knowledge about ageing and later life can be enhanced and improved. BSG is a registered charitable company and is the professional organisation representing gerontologists in Britain.
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Dec 2024
Creative Ageing SIG SPOTLIGHT on Practice: Internalised Ageism in the Arts
This blog has been written by Flourishing Lives and Georgia Bowers, and edited by Kate Dupuis and Emily Bradfield (Creative …

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Dec 2024
Passing the baton as the Creative Ageing SIG welcomes a new co-chair
This Creative Ageing SIG blog was written by Robyn Dowlen and Ezinma Mbeledogu, and edited by Emily Bradfield (Founder and …

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Oct 2024
Small Events Grant: Sharing findings, setting priorities, and coproducing ideas: Identifying future directions for ageing and dementia research with local older people
Authors: Dr Michelle Heward, Dr Sophia Amenyah, Dr Gladys Yinusa and members of the Bournemouth University Ageing and Dementia Research …

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Dr Paul Nash, Lecturer, Centre For Innovative Ageing at Swansea University talks about the importance of Gerontology

Gerontology: What is it and why is it important?

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26 November 2024
Call for Papers SLSAeu 2025 The Lifespan: Perspectives on Ageing and the Life Course from the Medical Humanities, the Health Sciences and Age Studies Conference of the European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSAeu) and The Sciences of Ageing and the Culture of Youth (SAACY) 4th–6th June 2025 The Great Hall, King’s College London
15 November 2024
Submit your article to Cogent Gerontology, a newly launched, open-access, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal from Taylor & Francis in the field of gerontology and geriatrics. Fees are waived for now while journal gets off the ground, so get in quick!
17 September 2024
New Averil Osborn Secretary and Deputy Secretary Announced.
16 May 2024
The first issue of the Journal of Global Ageing is now out. All papers will be free to access until the end of July 2024.
02 May 2024
A team of researchers from The University of Manchester has spent the last 18 months examining how faith spaces in Greater Manchester support different groups of older people within their communities.
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Deadline: 31 January 2025
Lund University, Faculty of Social Sciences
Deadline: 31 December 2024
Texas State University
Deadline: 31 December 2018
The Centre for innovative Ageing at Swansea University
Deadline: 31 August 2018
Nanyang Technical University