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Through a Design Lens: Exploring Eight Key Challenges of Ageing
When it comes to thinking about how successfully we might manage the future of an ageing society in the UK, it quickly becomes apparent that designers have a key role to play in reshaping the produ...
Keeping in touch with technology? Using telecare and assistive technology to support older people with dual sensory impairment
All too often, a deterioration in sight and hearing is seen as bound up with the process of getting older, and as a result is under-reported in self-assessed measures of disability. When hearing an...
How to take advantage of existing city parks’ infrastructure to promote intergenerational programmes?
Increased longevity has provided many opportunities for different generations to come together. Creating environments for harnessing the wisdom and experiences from these multiple generations can s...
NO-ONE SHOULD HAVE NO-ONE
In its short lifetime the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing has made a huge impact on how we think about ageing. Its rigour and insight have reached far and wide to influence policy and p...
An inquiry into intergenerational fairness ?
The deadline for written submissions to the parliamentary inquiry conducted by the Work and Pensions Select Committee (chaired by Frank Field MP) into intergenerational fairness was February 19th.&...
Women’s Health: a new Global agenda | Oxford Martin Policy Paper
Today sees the launch of the new policy paper from the Oxford Martin School, George Institute for Global Health – Women’s Health: a new Global agenda | Oxford Martin Policy Paper ...
Latin American perspectives on Migration, Social Inequalities and Life Transitions
© All rights reserved by Jonas Wresch/ HelpAge International (www.helpage.org) As a member of the Development Studies Association ‘Migration, Development ...
What about art?
I have always believed in art; it is the unique place which provides an opportunity for everyone, independent of background, colour, ideology, religion, age or physical condition to be more connect...
Gender inequality in Nepal: How can we tackle sex-selective abortion?
Last month I travelled to Nepal to disseminate research (funded by the Birth Control Trust), that I have been leading there concerning the emergence of sex-selective abortion. A culture o...
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Recalibration 2016
In 1906 Francis Galton visited the West of England Fat Stock and Poultry Exhibition, a country fair in Plymouth, where he witnessed a competition to guess the weight of a fat ox. For a sixpence, th...
How to change the world!
How to change the world! The bold and challenging title of a conference held recently in London, organized by the How to: Academy in collaboration with the University of Oxford’s Oxford Marti...
Is the transition state between childhood and adulthood the root of social anxiety produced by teen motherhood?
As many of you know I am a huge fan of Mary Douglas’ work. In particular her concept of transition: “danger lies in transitional states, simply because a transition is neither one state...
The Political Economy of Childbearing: Impressions from Bethlehem
During our recent honeymoon, my husband and I visited the West Bank and Bethlehem. As Christmas approaches, many of us remember Jesus Christ was born here 2,015 years ago in poor conditions &...
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Can polygamy be merged with modern British values?
The starting point for this post was the Seminar ‘Marrying out’ for love: women’s narratives of polygyny and alternative marriage choices in contemporary Senegal’. Pol...
Ageing, loneliness and homogeneity: let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater
With the sound of bonfire night fireworks still ringing in our ears, and the last of the Halloween sweets just about polished off, it must be time for the retail sector to start the run up to Chris...