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The 'New' Ageing Populations: Mapping identities, health, needs and
responses across the lifecourse
We are pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new ESRC funded Seminar
Series
First seminar: Monday 25th January 2010
Why Study New Ageing Populations?
Time: 2.30 – 5.30pm. Refreshments will be available from 2pm
Venue: The Council Room, King’s College London, Strand, WC2R 2LS
Our first seminar will address the emergence of new ageing populations and
the challenges for services and policy that ensue. We are pleased to
announce the speakers at this event are:
Emma Lake, Expert Patient Advisor, Cystic Fibrosis Trust. Growing older with
cystic fibrosis
Rosie Barnes, Chief Executive, Cystic Fibrosis Trust. What challenges do
adults with cystic fibrosis lay down for service provision and policy?
Christina Victor, Professor of Gerontology and Public Health, Brunel
University. What challenges do new ageing populations lay down for social
gerontology?
There is no charge for attendance at the seminars. A limited number of
travel bursaries for postgraduate students are available. Please contact
[log in to unmask] to register your attendance and for travel bursary
enquiries.
The ESRC Seminar series is an academic collaboration between King’s College
London (Dr Karen Lowton, Senior Lecturer in Ageing & Health, Institute of
Gerontology), University College London (Paul Higgs, Professor of the
Sociology of Ageing, Division of Research Strategy) and University of Surrey
(Dr Karen Ballard, Senior Lecturer in Women's Health, Postgraduate Medical
School).
A series of six seminars will take place during 2010 and 2011
Future Seminar Speakers include:
Baroness Campbell of Surbiton
Carol Walker, Professor of Social Policy, University of Lincoln
Sharon Kaufmann, Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Institute for
Health & Aging, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Department
of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of
California, San Francisco
Bryan S Turner, the Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor of
Sociology at Wellesley College, Faculty Associate of the Center for Cultural
Sociology, Yale University.
For further information about all six seminars in the series, visit
www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/geront/news/esrcseminar/programme.html, email
[log in to unmask] or contact Dr Karen Lowton 0207 848 2566
This Seminar will be immediately followed by the Institute of Gerontology,
Age Concern and Help the Aged’s David Hobman Annual lecture, to which all
seminar participants are invited.
The 2010 David Hobman Annual Lecture will be given by Dr Alexandre
Sidorenko, previously UN Focal Point on Ageing:
“Old age in a global environment: lessons from the UN programme on ageing”.
Further information is available at
www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/geront/news/annlec09.html
A wine reception will follow the lecture. So that we can plan for catering,
please confirm your attendance at [log in to unmask]
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