Technology & Ageing @BsgTechAgeSig

Aims & Objectives:

This Special Interest Group aims to create a forum for sharing research, policy, and practice focused on technology and ageing. We create opportunities for people from different sectors and disciplines to share their experiences, knowledge, and skills with one another.

Our objectives are to:

• Provide opportunities to share, discuss and debate current issues and methodological developments in the field.
• Increase capacity for collaborations and cross-working between academia and industry.
• Support the dissemination of relevant information and findings.

SIG Steering Committee Members:

Special InCurrent Chair
Dr. Michelle Heward
Lecturer
Bournemouth University

Outgoing Chair
Dr. Neil Chadbourn

Senior Research Fellow

University of Nottingham

Secretary
Dr. Vanessa Davey
Research Fellow
Newcastle University

Communications officer

Nicola Camp, MSc
Academic Associate
Nottingham Trent University

If you are interested in contributing to the organisation of the SIG or would like to find out more about being a Steering Committee Member, please email BSGtechnologySIG@britishgerontology.org.

For updates on the SIG:

The SIG welcomes people who are not BSG members.For regular email updates on the SIG and our events, please contact Vanessa Davey BSGtechnologySIG@britishgerontology.org

You can also follow us and interact with us onour social media accounts:

X account @BSGTechAgeSIG

BlueSky account @bsgtechagesig.bsky.social  

Linked-In Technology & Ageing SIG - British Society of Gerontology | Groups | LinkedIn

The BSG Society is also active on X and can be followed via @britgerontology.

Opportunities and Events: 

SIG Members Meetings

We hold bi-yearly BSG Technology & Ageing SIG Members only meetings to support the work of our members. This can include members presenting their research or ‘journal club’ type meetings. We also use the meetings to plan the SIGs contribution to the annual BSG conference.

Webinars

We hold regular online webinars that are open to anyone interested in the field.

2025

Implementing Technology-Enabled Care, 4^th February 2025, 12:30-13:30 (GMT)

Speaker 1

Elderly care at home with age technologies and experiences to adopt technology

Dr. Minna-Liisa Luoma, Associate Professor at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland and Chief Specialist on Ageing at the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL).

Speaker 2

Using telemonitoring data to preserve the autonomy and safety of older adults: Beware of power issues in the context of caregiving

Dr. Mélanie Couture, Associate Professor at the University of Sherbrooke, Montreal, Canada and the current chairholder of the Research Chair on Older Adult

To book a free space: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/british-society-of-gerontology-technology-and-ageing-sig-webinar-tickets-1106359544179

2024

Virtual reality in later life, 25^th June 2024

Speaker

Older adults’ attitudes towards immersive virtual reality

Dr Sangeetha Babu Manoharan, PhD Student, Lancaster University

The presentation is available here:

https://mediaspace.nottingham.ac.uk/media/t/1_s9otp1w1

BSG Annual Conference Symposium Sessions

The SIG makes an important contribution to the BSG annual conference, with symposium sessions that include several presentations by BSG Technology & Ageing SIG Members. We also hold a ‘meet the SIG’ where we share information on how to join the SIG. More details for each symposium sessions, including the abstract can be found in the PDF document.

2024

Two Symposium at the BSG conference

• Current technologies and digital inclusion Wednesday 3rd July, 13:15-14:45 (symposium 37)
•  New technologies (robots and VR) and ethics of citizenship and development Wednesday 3rd July, 16:30-18:00 (symposium 38)

2023

Two Symposium at the BSG conference

• Implementation of technologies at home and in care settings: Lessons learn from COVID:19 Thursday, 6th July, 11:00-12:30 (Symposium 17)
• Experiences and interactions in online and virtual worlds, Friday, 7th July, (Symposium 27)

2022

• Creativity, communication and care in the COVID years, Wednesday 06 July, 09:15 - 11:00

   

  2021

• Technology and Ageing: Personal digital technology celebrates 50 years, alongside BSG! Wednesday, 7th July, 10:30 - 11:30

   

  2020

  Symposium at first virtual conference (due to COVID19)

• Technology, ageing and social relationships; using technology to facilitate communication across social and care relationships in later life.

2019

• Symposium at BSG annual conference
  Technology, resilience and ageing; critical perspectives. BSG Technology and Ageing Special Interest Group.
• Adult education in a digital world event, 22nd Nov. Joint event with Educational Gerontology SIG, hosted by Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham

2018

Mobile e-Health, insights from the Edited book (2017, Springer)