Institute News
Owasim Akram | Erasmus Traineeship grant
The Institute welcomes Owasim Akram, Academic Visitor at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing from April 2019. Owasim was awarded the Erasmus Traineeship grant. He is a Marie Curie PhD Student...
AfOx Travel grant | Vhumani Magezi
Africa Oxford Initiative (AxOf) Travel grant recipient Prof Vhumani Magezi talks with collaborator Dr George Leeson. ►Watch the video: AfOx Travel grant - Vhumani Magezi AfOx Travel Gr...
Happy News
The Institute is delighted to announce the birth of twins, Melis and Atlas, to our alumna Burcu Ozdemir. Burcu was awarded a DPhil in Sociology from the University of Oxford in 2017 under the...
Professor Vhumani Magezi | AfOx
The Institute welcomes Professor Vhumani Magezi, Academic Visitor at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing from February 2019 to March 2019. Professor Magezi is a recipient of The Africa ...
Rui Kang | PhD Award
Congratulations to Rui Kang on successfully defending her doctoral thesis at the School of Labour Economics, Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing, China. Rui Kang was a Visiting Ju...
The 2019 EAST Research Network Joint Workshop - 'Migration and Ageing Populations'
Migration and Ageing Populations - Eastern-European Ageing Societies in Transition (EAST) Workshop in Zagreb, Croatia, 5-6 September 2019. We shall be inviting members of EAST to present t...
New appointment | Atulya Saxena
We are very pleased to announce that Atulya Saxena has been appointed as a Lecturer in Public Health at the Department of Public Health under the Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing at ...
Health Data Research UK | New Board Members
Professor Sarah Harper has been appointed to the Non-Executive Board of Health Data Research UK. Together with the existing members, Sarah will share in the collective responsibility for t...
Sir Jeremy Heywood dies
It is with great sorrow that we learn of the death of Sir Jeremy Heywood. Sir Jeremy was a strong supporter of research and policy developments in the study of population ageing and played a ...
Second International Seminar on the Active Ageing Index
UNECE, the European Commission's DG EMPL, the University of the Basque Country, the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, with the support of the Government of Biscay (Spain), held a Second In...
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Minister for Social Care meets Institute's Paro
The Directors of the Institute presented Paro and discussed their research on the implications of therapeutic robots with Caroline Dinenage, Minister for Health and Social Care, and with the Depart...
Bizkaia Silver Week | Bilbao
Bizkaia Silver Week gathered in Bilbao-Bizkaia a week before the International Day of Older Persons, hosted symposia involving the key agents in ageing and quality of life, experts, institutions, i...
NWU | South Africa visit
In September, Dr. George W. Leeson visited North West University in South Africa at the invitation of Dr. Jaco Hoffman, an active member of the Collen programme. During the visit, Dr. Leeson spoke ...
1st National Congress | Costa Rica
In August, Dr. George W. Leeson and Dr. Urbain Boutelegier attended the 1st National Congress organised by the Tejedores de Sueños Foundation in San Jose, Costa Rica. Attended by more than 5...
Professor Sarah Harper Honoured with CBE
The Institute is delighted to announce that the Institute's Founding Director, Professor Sarah Harper has been appointed Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for her services to the science of...