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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?

Events & Courses

23 September 2024 - 25 September 2026

Masters/PhD in Gerontology / Global Ageing and Policy

06 February 2025 - 07 February 2025

The National Dementias Conference

28 February 2025

Falls Prevention & Management in Older Adult

07 March 2025

A Practical Guide to Effective Non Medical Prescribing in End of Life Care

07 March 2025

A Practical Guide to Effective Nurse Prescribing in End of Life Care

Winning Photos from Photocrowd and the British Society of Gerontology

Ageing: the bigger picture

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26 November 2024

CfP SLSAeu 2025, The Lifespan, King's College London, 4th-6th June 2025

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

New journal: Cogent Gerontology

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!

28 October 2024

#TheArchitectureOfAgeing - new book

17 September 2024

New Averil Osborn Secretary and Deputy Secretary Announced.

16 May 2024

Journal of Global Ageing

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

Research highlights role of faith spaces in supporting healthy ageing

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.

Jobs

Deadline: 31 January 2025

Lund University, Faculty of Social Sciences

Professor and Director of the Centre for Social Science Methods

Deadline: 02 January 2025

University of Leeds

Funded PhD Opportunity at the University of Leeds: Co-creating a Construction Work Environment to Meet the Needs of an Ageing Workforce

Deadline: 31 December 2024

Texas State University

Assistant Professor

Deadline: 10 July 2023

Director of the Centre for Adult Social Care Research (CARE) and Professor of Adult Social Care

Deadline: 31 December 2018

The Centre for innovative Ageing at Swansea University

Postgraduate Programmes in Gerontology & Ageing Studies

Deadline: 31 August 2018

Nanyang Technical University

Visiting Fellow