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Media, communication, and the capacity to aspire amongst Kenyan youth
In anticipation to his seminar in Trinity Term 2016 Seminar Series on Adolescent Ecologies convened by Dr Jaco Hoffman, Prof Thomas Tufte blogs about Media, communication, and the capacity to aspir...
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Latin America is ageing and urbanising …and fast
Latin America is ageing and the region is urbanising quite dramatically. This was the focus of a group of international and regional scholars who met last month in the stunning Bolivian capital of ...
Migration and intergenerational relations in Southeast Asia
© All rights reserved by Andy Scott Chang Southeast Asia is very diverse: its eleven countries vary in historical, sociocultural and political economic experiences. Yet,...
During adolescence, the world expands for boys and contracts for girls.
This terms seminar series at the Institute addresses adolescence. ‘Navigating life in sub-Saharan Africa – adolescent socio-ecologies’ focusing on the environments in which...
Population Ageing: Challenges and Opportunities for the Museum and Gallery Sector
Previous blogs have addressed the benefits of engaging with art and culture in later life, which include the promotion of social engagement, health and wellbeing and reducing isolation. Older peopl...
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...