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Ageing, the Digital and Everyday Life
Dear Colleagues,
It gives me great pleasure to invite you to a one day seminar – Ageing, the Digital and Everyday Life – at Brunel University London on Friday 26 October.
Seminar is free to attend, registration is essential
The seminar brings together an interdisciplinary and international group of academics and researchers from the arts, the social sciences and Science and Technology Studies (STS) whose work focuses on ageing, the digital and everyday life.
Speakers will examine and review the study of ageing, the digital and everyday life from a wide range of perspectives and to critically explore future challenges and possibilities.
Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) international partnership ‘Ageing, Communication, Technologies (ACT): experiencing a digital world in later life’.
Darwin Room, Hamilton Suite, Brunel University London
Friday 26 October 2018
Programme
10:00 Refreshments
10:30 Welcome
Professor Geoff Rodgers, Vice-Provost Research, Brunel University London
Professor Kimberley Sawchuk, Principal Investigator
Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) international partnership 'Ageing, Communication, Technologies (ACT)
Papers 1 - Chair - Dr Wendy Martin, Senior Lecturer, Division of Health Sciences, Brunel University London
10:45 Measured, monitored, optimized: quantified aging and digital culture
Dr Barbara Marshall, Professor of Sociology, Trent University, Canada
11:15 Agency and Ambivalence in Grandmothers' Digitally Mediated Everyday Lives
Dr Shannon Hebblethwaite, Associate Professor, Applied Human Sciences, Concordia University, Canada
11:45 Group Discussion
12:15 Networking Lunch
Papers 2 - Chair - Professor Paul Higgs, Professor of the Sociology of Ageing, University College London
13:00 The Co-Constitution of Ageing and Technology: A model as an inspitration for theorizing the age-technology nexus
Dr Alexander Peine, Assistant Professor, Science Technology and Innovation Studies, Utrecht University
Dr Louis Neven, Lector Active Ageing, Avans University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
13:30 The place of age in the digital revolution
Dr Chris Gilleard, University College London
14:00 Group Discussion
14:30 Tea
Papers 3 - Chair - Dr Wendy Martin, Senior Lecturer, Division of Health Sciences, Brunel University London
15:00 Troubling participation in care-ful codesign with older people
Dr Helen Manchester, Reader in Digital Inequalities and Urban Futures, University of Bristol
15:30 Digital Media-Making with Older Adults: participatory action research, promising practices and on going issues
Dr Kimberley Sawchuk, Professor of Communications Studies, Concordia University, Canada
16:00 Panel discussion with all presenters - Chair - Professor Paul Higgs
16:30 Closing comments - Dr Wendy Martin
We would be delighted if you are able to join us. Please register you place (and any dietary requirements) via the Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ageing-the-digital-and-everyday-life-tickets-48911171631?aff=eac2
We would be delighted to welcome you to join us in this seminar and look forward to seeing you there.
Best wishes, Wendy (Martin) and Paul (Higgs)
Dr Wendy Martin
Senior Lecturer
Member - Institute of Environment, Health and Societies - Welfare, Health and Wellbeing Theme
T: +44 (0)1895 268747
Brunel University London
College of Health and Life Science
Department of Clinical Sciences
Mary Seacole Building (Level 3)
Brunel University London
Uxbridge, Middlesex.
UB8 3PH
www.brunel.ac.uk<http://www.brunel.ac.uk/>
Co-covenor BSA (British Sociological Association) Ageing, Body and Society study group
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