Enhancing our understanding of later life

Deadline 13 June APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN for the Healthy Ageing Challenge APPROACH funding call. Successful applicants will receive up to £100k (@ 80% fEC) for a duration of 12 months. Applications are welcome from researchers at all career stages. We particularly interested in applications where this is the first opportunity as Principal Investigator.? Successful projects will join the Social Behaviour & Design Research Programme (Home - SBDRP | Stirling University (ageing-sbdrp.co.uk)) as part of the UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge (Healthy ageing challenge – UKRI).

The journal 'International Journal of Population Studies' (ISSN 2424-8150 (P) / 2424-8606 (O)) is currently running a Special Issue "Active Ageing and Educational Gerontology". Prof. Marvin Formosa and Hany Hachem are serving as guest editors. Based on your expertise in this field, we think that you could make an excellent contribution.

The following blog by Sheila Peace from Policy Press's Transforming Society series was launched on February 24th, 2022 alongside the publication of 'The Environments of Ageing: Space, Place and Materiality' in the BSG's Ageing in a Global Context book series. The aim here is to draw attention to the interaction of population ageing as a major global challenge combined with issues such as climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. Issues discussed in the text above see: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-environments-of-ageing

Musculoskeletal conditions – including arthritis and back pain – affect over 20 million people in the UK and are the single biggest cause of pain and disability. Despite almost one in three (32%) people living with musculoskeletal conditions, there is a lack of evidence on the impact of these conditions on people’s well-being and life chances and how to improve policy and practice interventions.

There is a new UK research project on how older women in the UK experience sexism, ageism, and their intersections.