This event on 7 June focused on older kinship carers. It explored related issues from different perspectives – research, personal experience, an NGO organisation, and a practitioner. In particular, highlighted the link between kinship carers and inequality, in relation to age, gender and location. The keynote speaker was Dr Anna Tarrant, University of Lincoln. For […]
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Gemma Carney has joined the Editorial Board of Ageing and Society. This is an interdisciplinary and international journal devoted to the understanding of human ageing and the circumstances of older people in their social and cultural contexts.
Our latest publication ‘The impact of caring’ uses data from the 2015 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey to explore the extent and impact of caring. This Research Update by Paula Devine and Ann Marie Gray is available here.
The Lively Project exhibition launch is on 8 December 2016. For more information about The Lively Project, and the exhibition launch, click here.
In this ‘Ageing Bites’ video, Elizabeth Martin and Gemma Carney discuss feminist methods in ageing research. Click here to see the video.
Join us in Queen’s University Belfast for a creative ageing seminar with Dominic Campbell (Creative Aging International). Click here for more information.
Imagining the future: Growing older together? is a blog by Alexandra Chapman, which was published on the Policy and Politics blog on 7 September. To read the blog, click here.
This joint ARK/Detail Data information session on 26 September 2016 will give attendees an insight into the attitudes to and knowledge of dementia in Northern Ireland, using data from the 2014 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey. For more information, and how to book, please click here.
Read Gemma Carney’s new article baby boomers, brexit and voting. This blog was published on QPol (Queen’s University Belfast), on 5 July 2016. Click here for more information.
In this seminar on 6 June, Anna Tarrant discussed her research on older male kinship carers, how they describe their care responsibilities, and the implications for ageing male identities. For more information on the event, click here.
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