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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Posted Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:05:52 This message was forwarded through MEDSOCNEWS. If you wish to make an announcement or publicise an event then please send the text to: [log in to unmask] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Apologies for cross posting 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] ********************************************************************** 1. For general enquires or problems with the list or to CHANGE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS send a message to: [log in to unmask] 2. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the following message: set medsocnews nomail 3. To resume email from the list, send the following message: set medsocnews mail 4. To leave MedSocNews, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message (leave the subject line blank and do not include a signature): leave medsocnews 5. To join or subscribe to MedSocNews, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message (leave the subject line blank and do not include a signature): SUBSCRIBE medsocnews firstname lastname 6. Further information about the medsocnews discussion list (including list archive and how to subscribe to or leave the list) can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medsocnews.html **********************************************************************