Dear colleagues You may be interested in this 3 year post in the Institute for Ageing and Health at Newcastle University. The post is to support a new project on the contribution of socio-demographic and lifestyle factors to understanding variations in healthy life expectancy at regional and individual levels and is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. The Institute for Ageing and Health (IAH) is internationally renowned and is the UK’s largest academic grouping of basic, clinical and social scientists working in this field. Its mission is to provide excellence in research and training for scientific study of the ageing process, and the medical, psychological and social consequences of ageing. The work of the IAH was recognised in 2009 with the award to Newcastle University of the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Further and Higher Education which described a programme addressing the challenges of population ageing. Please click on the link below if you are interested in finding out more. http://www15.i-grasp.com/fe/tpl_newcastle02.asp?newms=jj&id=39989&newlang=1 Carol Jagger Carol Jagger AXA Professor of Epidemiology of Ageing Biogerontology Research Building Institute for Ageing and Health Newcastle University Campus for Ageing and Vitality Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 5PL tel 0191 2481117 fax 0191 2481101 email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent through the Ageing in Europe mailing list. Please visit the homepage of the ESA Research Network on Ageing in Europe at http://www.ageing-in-europe.org ----------------------------------------------------------------