Incoming Chair of Emerging Researchers Into Ageing Group (ERA):
Dr Matthew Lariviere
Dr Matthew Lariviere is a UKRI Innovation Fellow at the Centre for International Research on Care, Labour and Equalities at The University of Sheffield. He is a social anthropologist interested in two primary research areas: (1) cross-cultural understandings and experiences of ageing and memory loss, and (2) the challenges and opportunities for technologies to support older adults, carers and clinicians in health and care systems.
In 2018, he completed his PhD in Health Sciences at the University of East Anglia. His doctoral study was an ethnography of people with dementia and their carers using assistive technologies and telecare at home, as participants in the NIHR-funded trial, Assistive Technology and Telecare to maintain Independent Living At home for people with dementia (ATTILA). For his current UKRI Innovation Fellowship, he examines challenges, benefits and possibilities for businesses and organisations designing, producing and providing emergent technologies to support ageing in place in the UK.
Deeply committed to interdisciplinary and non-academic engagement, he has delivered public engagement workshops throughout the UK and convened policy and practice knowledge exchange events in the UK, Europe, Australia and North America.
Matthew is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He reviews for Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, The BMJ, and Journal of Medical Internet Research. In 2019, he was appointed the Reviews Editor of the International Journal of Care and Caring.
m.lariviere@sheffield.ac.uk