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Professor G. Clare Wenger
Affiliation
Emeritus Professor, Centre for Social Policy Research & Development, University of Wales, Bangor, UK
Address
Centre for Social Policy Research & Development,
Institute for Medical and Social Care Research,
University of Wales,
Bangor,
LL57 2PX,
UK
Institute for Medical and Social Care Research,
University of Wales,
Bangor,
LL57 2PX,
UK
Contact
gcwenger@btinternet.com
Biosketch
Professor Wenger received her Ph.D in social anthropology from the University of California Berkeley in 1976. She has been a full-time researcher since 1971 until retirement in 2002. She is currently co-investigator in a Canadian study of care networks of old people at the end of life, undertaken by the University of Alberta. From 1978-1999 Professor Wenger conducted a longitudinal study of the ageing process and informal support in rural Wales, funded by the UK Department of Health. From 2002-2004 she was director and co-ordinator of a 6-nation European Study of Adult Well-being, funded by EU. From 2000-2003 she was director and co-ordinator of a study of support networks of older Gujaratis, Punjabis and Sylhetis in the UK and in South Asia, funded by the UK Department of International Development (DFID).
Key research/capacity building interests
Research Interests
- Family stress and contributions in terminal care
Capacity Building Interests
- Writing proposals and mentoring less experienced researchers.
Key methodological skills
- Qualitative research
- Cross-national comparative research
Current/planned research
- Care networks at the end of life, “Hidden Costs; Invisible Contributions”
- Perpetrators of elder abuse in one county in the UK
- working with African colleagues to develop a proposal for a replication of the EU study above in 7 African nations
Current Engagement in capacity building
None