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Generations Review - October 2010

In this Issue:

Editorial

Wendy Martin, Samuel R. Nyman, Christina Victor and Veronika Williams Click here to read more

News & Reviews

Message from the President of BSG - Miriam Bernard

Westminster Launch of Making the Case for the Social Sciences - Ageing - Professor Judith Phillips

Attending BSG Brunel 2010 Conference: An International Perspective - Linda Peach

Early Careers Workshop: Writing Successful Research Proposals in Ageing Studies - Susan Venn

Older People’s Forums – calling for recognition by researchers - Debbie Beale

New Dynamics of Ageing (NDA) Programme update - Professor Alan Walker

BSG Scotland News - Sue Tester

Call for abstracts: 40th BSG Conference, Understanding and Promoting the Value of Older Age, Plymouth 5-7th July 2011 - Catherine Hennessy on behalf of the conference organising team

Report of the Honorary Secretary - Dr Wendy Martin

What's On

Information on forthcoming conferences

Profile

Professor Miriam Bernard

Anthea Tinker - A gerontologist and her career*

Research

Keynote addresses at the 39th Annual Conference

Capacity building in ageing research: Key successes and challenges of the Australian experience - Professor Helen Bartlett and Dr. Matthew Carroll

Time matters: Negotiating daily life and the work day for elderly clients and their home support workers - Professor Anne Martin-Matthews

Learning from older people: Shifting the balance in research - Professor Fiona Ross

The Embodiment of Age - Julia Twigg

PhD Abstracts

Residential care for the elderly in England and Japan in the 20th century: Local authority provision in the county of Norfolk and Gifu Prefecture - Mayumi Hayashi

The premature end of lifelong learning? The impact of policy discourse on older learners - Jonathan Emrys Hughes

The negotiation of midlife: Exploring the subjective experience of ageing - Bethany Morgan Brett

Older people and engagement in neighbourhood renewal: A qualitative study of Stoke-on-Trent - Charles Simpson

Research Papers

Optimising quality sleep among older people in the community and care homes: Some key findings from a four-year collaborative research project - Susan Venn et al

Policy & Practice

Closing the gap between science and society? The case for the Kilburn Debates - John Miles

The implementation of a model of person-centred praactice in older person settings in Ireland - Professor Brendan McCormack

Education & Careers

Publishing books for beginners - Alison Shaw

Emerging Researchers in Ageing: International Perspectives

International Development and future Trajectories BSG-ERA Perspective - Christian Beech

The Emerging Researchers in Ageing, Australia At the British Society of Gerontology Conference, Brunel University, July 2010 - Linda Peach

Emerging Researchers in Aging: the U.S. experience - Natalie Leland, PhD, OTR/L, BCG

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