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Jul 2026
BSG Bursary: From Listening to Contributing: Reflections on Returning to BSG Conference 2026
Yue Zhang Returning to the BSG Annual Conference this year felt a little like coming back to somewhere familiar. When …

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May 2026
Pathways to Impact: Choices that Count
Early career researchers play a vital role in shaping the future of gerontology, yet they often have fewer opportunities to …

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May 2026
ABANDONING OLD AGE: NEGOTIATING THE NEW PUBLIC POLICY NORMAL
Chris Phillipson, School of Social Sciences, The University of Manchester, UK christopher.phillipson@manchester.ac.uk The 2008/9 financial recession created a significant challenge …

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07 July 2026
BSG Scotland Summer Writing Day
This summer the British Society of Gerontology (BSG) Scotland are launching our series of in-person writing days, which will be held at various universities across Scotland, providing opportunities to write, network and visit other campuses.
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05 May 2026
Call for evidence: Beyond Midlife Commission
The Beyond Midlife Commission will focus on one of the most pressing and yet under-examined challenges facing our country: how we support people approaching midlife and beyond to thrive in the labour market.
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24 April 2026
Your SIG Needs You!
The Ageing, Business and Society (ABS) Special Interest Group is looking to welcome new members to its Leadership Team - and we’d love to hear from you, or from anyone you think might be interested.
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24 April 2026
Appointment Announcement: Deputy Chair, Ageing Business and Society SIG
The British Society of Gerontology is pleased to announce that Michèle Boden has been appointed Vice Chair of the Ageing Business and Society Special Interest Group, working alongside Rob Walton, the current Chair.
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20 February 2026
Welcome to the newsletter of the BSG Ageism Special Interest Group (SIG)
We will now be publishing our newsletters on our Linked in page https://www.linkedin.com/company/bsgageismsig/?viewAsMember=true as well as sending it to our email members and to the British Society of Gerontology membership directly.
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09 January 2026
The Centre for Ageing Better: Opportunity to provide academic content for our Research and Policy newsletter
The Centre for Ageing Better are looking for a researcher or research unit to conduct monthly literature searches on aspects of ageing and later life for their Research and Policy alert.
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Jobs
Deadline: 09 August 2026
Parliamentary Thematic Research Leads 2027 – 2029: Call open!
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Deadline: 02 April 2026
Vice-Chancellor’s PhD Scholarship Media, Ageing and Cultural Evidence for Practice and Policy
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Deadline: 31 January 2026
University of Southampton
Funded PhD Opportunity
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Deadline: 14 November 2025
University of Manchester
[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] Building resilient communities through urban regeneration: Centring older ethnically minoritised residents; experiences in North Manchester
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Deadline: 10 July 2023
Director of the Centre for Adult Social Care Research (CARE) and Professor of Adult Social Care
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Deadline: 31 December 2018
The Centre for innovative Ageing at Swansea University
Postgraduate Programmes in Gerontology & Ageing Studies
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