Forthcoming Event

About the Speaker 

Professor Liat Ayalon — Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Liat Ayalon, PhD, is a Professor in the School of Social Work, at Bar Ilan University, Israel. Prof. Ayalon is currently funded by European Research Council (ERC-Advanced) to reduce ageism in the second half of life. She is also funded by the Israel Science Foundation to study intergenerational relations in the context of climate change and by the Volkswagen Foundation in collaboration with colleagues in Germany (Dr. von Kutzleben and Prof. Schweda) to study moral dilemmas in migrant home care arrangements. She is also funded by the Binational Science Foundation (in collaboration with Prof. Carr) to study social integration in the age of climate change and by the ISF-DFG funding mechanism (in collaboration with Prof. Rothermund) to study descriptive versus prescriptive age stereotypes.  She was the coordinator of an international EU funded Ph.D. program on the topic of ageism (EuroAgeism.eu; 2017-2022). Between 2014 and 2018, Prof. Ayalon has led an international research network on the topic of ageism, funded through COST (Cooperation in Science and Technology; COST IS1402, notoageism.com). She consults both national and international organizations concerning the development and evaluation of programs and services for older adults. In recognition of her work, Prof. Ayalon was selected by the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing as one of 50 world leaders working to transform the world to be a better place in which to grow older.