Outgoing Chair of Emerging Researchers Into Ageing Group (ERA):
Dr Matthew Lariviere

Dr Matthew Lariviere is Lecturer in Social Policy in the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol. Matthew is a social anthropologist whose research explores and anticipates emergent relationalities, materialities, and subjectivities through digital technology and AI within care and ageing futures. From 2018 – 2021, he held an ESRC Innovation Fellowship in the Centre for International Research on Care, Labour and Equalities at the University of Sheffield. In 2020, the N8 Research Partnership recognised Matthew with a New Research Pioneer Award for his research on emergent technologies to support ageing in place.
Deeply committed to interdisciplinary and non-academic engagement, Matthew has presented his work to academics, policy and practice partners, and the public across the UK, Europe, Australia, and North America. He is the Chair and EU representative for IDIH Global's Inclusive Living Expert Group, an international consortium and fora for digital technology and healthy ageing, and a Co-Convenor of the European Association of Social Anthropologists’ Age and Generations Network.
Since January 2020, Matthew has been the Reviews Editor for the International Journal of Care and Caring. He regularly reviews for multiple peer-reviewed journals on topics related to ageing, digital health, and care.
Matthew is an elected Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
m.lariviere@sheffield.ac.uk