Following the final round of commissioning, reported in the last edition of Generations Review, the first round of projects have begun to wind up. As each one does so there will be a lay summary of the particular project and its main outputs. Published as NDA Findings, in both electronic and hard copy, this series will provide an easy to access reference guide to the whole Programme. The first two issues have just been published:

1. Innovation in envisioning dynamic biomechanical data to inform healthcare and design guidelines and strategy.

2. Quality of life in older age: Psychometric testing of the multidimensional Older People’s Quality of Life (OPQOL) questionnaire and the casual model underpinning it.

These are available for download from the NDA website (http://www.newdynamics.group.shef.ac.uk/) or in hard copy from the NDA office (see below).

Also just published and available in the same formats is the fourth NDA Newsletter, which contains details of the last group of projects commissioned by the Programme.

Finally in this update I am pleased to announce that the UK Research Councils and the RCUK China Office will be sponsoring a further scientific workshop in China to encourage closer links between British and Chinese researchers in the ageing field. This workshop follows the successful events, organised by the NDA Programme, between the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the ESRC in Beijing and London in 2008 and 2009. The next workshop will focus on nutrition and take place in Beijing in early 2010.

NDA office:

Ms Karen Tsui
Administrator of the NDA Programme
Department of Sociological Studies
The University of Sheffield
Elmfield

Northumberland Road
Sheffield

S10 2TU
Tel: 0114 222 6467

Fax: 0114 222 6492