Alan Walker
Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology
Department of Sociological Studies
University of Sheffield
Director of the New Dynamics of Ageing Programme (AHRC, BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC and MRC)
The second round of Collaborative Research Projects will be short listed in mid January and, later this month, an Ideas Factory on Nutrition will take place.
NDA Programme Grants:
- Ageing, well-being and development. A comparative study of Brazil and South Africa
Armando Barrientos, University of Manchester
- Transitions, choices and health at older ages: life course analyses of longitudinal data
David Blane, Imperial College London
- Psychometric testing of the multidimensional
older people's quality of life (OPQOL) questionnaire and the causal
model of QoL under-pinning it
Ann Bowling, University College London
- Detecting and preventing financial abuse of older adults: and examination of decision-making by managers and professionals
Mary Gilhooly, Brunel University
- Maintaining dignity in later life: a longitudinal qualitative study of older people's experiences of supportive care
Liz Lloyd, University of Bristol
- Innovation in envisioning dynamic biomechanical data to inform healthcare and design practice
Alastair Macdonald, Glasgow School of Arts
- New metrics for exploring the relationship between mobility and successful ageing
Lynn McInnes, Northumbria University
- Promoting independence and social engagement among older people in disadvantaged community
Michael Murray, Keele University
- Older people's use of unfamiliar space
Judith Phillips, University of Wales Swansea
- Ageing, poverty and neoliberalism in urban South India
Penny Vera-Sanso, Birkbeck College, University of London
- Families and caring in South Asian communities
Christina Victor, University of Reading
- Landscapes of cross-generational engagement
Peter Wright, Sheffield Hallam University
Further information on the NDA Programme from http://www.newdynamics.group.shef.ac.uk/.