Forthcoming Event

About the Speaker

Dr Brian Beach, Senior Research Fellow in Social Policy & Gerontology, UCL

Dr Brian Beach is a Senior Research Fellow in Social Policy and Gerontology at University College London (UCL) in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, where he has been a member of the research team for the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing since July 2021. His research examines the intersections between ageing and policy, with emphasis on the dynamics related to work, retirement, and health. His current projects involve analyses of working conditions, cognitive health, and dementia. Since April 2024, he has also held a position at Karolinska Institutet (KI) in Stockholm, Sweden, in the Division of Insurance Medicine at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, conducting register-based studies on sickness absence/disability pension (SA/DP) policy in Sweden.

Prior to UCL, Brian worked for eight years at the International Longevity Centre UK (ILC), where he conducted research on a range of topics related to population ageing, such as loneliness, serious illness, retirement housing, and employment in later life. He has worked in the field of ageing since 2006 and has been an active member on various strategic and advisory groups with universities, the voluntary sector, and government as they examine older people and the world of work. His engagement with the UK Parliament included three appearances before Select Committees, providing oral evidence on employment in later life and housing for older people.

Brian received his doctorate in 2016 from the University of Oxford, studying at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, where he explored how the concept of employability plays a role in the labour market behaviour of older workers in England and other European social policy contexts.

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