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Ageing in Common

The UK will be hosting an event entitled Ageing In Common: An International Perspective – and the event is running from the 16 to the 18th April in Reading. The event has been coordinate...


EAST Research Network Joint Workshop - ‘Silver Economy in Central and Eastern Europe’

Silver Economy in Central and Eastern Europe -  Eastern-European Ageing Societies in Transition (EAST) Workshop in in Łódź, Poland, 22-23 June 2018.      The ...


HDR UK | Sarah Harper

Professor Sarah Harper has been appointed to the Board of Health Data Research UK (HDR UK). HDR UK supports world-leading research to develop cutting-edge analytical tools and methodologies to a...


Claudia Azevedo | PhD Award

Congratulations to Claudia Azevedo on successfully defending her doctoral thesis.  Claudia was awarded a PhD in Gerontology and Geriatrics from the Instituto de Ciências Biomé...


Healthy Aging Symposium 2018

Professor Sarah Harper is an invited speaker at the Healthy Aging Symposium 2018  taking place at Tel Aviv University on 11 January 2018. The goal of the Healthy Aging Symposium is to prese...


2018 EIT Health Summer School on Active Ageing

The Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, in partnership with SAID Business School and the Pierre & Marie Currie University in Paris, has been successful in a bid to host a 2018 EIT Health Sum...


Future Foresight Forum 2017

Professor Sarah Harper is an invited speaker at The Future Foresight Forum (FFF) event taking place at the Oman Convention and Exhibition Centre under the patronage of H H Sayyid Haitham bin Tariq ...


Expert reaction to the Government’s Industrial Strategy white paper

Professor Sarah Harper, Chair, Future of an Ageing Population, Foresight Review 2016, said: "Today’s recognition in the government’s Industrial Strategy white paper of Ageing as...


Nobel Prize Dialogue Seoul 2017: The Age to Come

On 30 October 2017, Nobel Prize Dialogue was held in Seoul. Nobel Laureates, key opinion leaders, policy makers, students, researchers and the general public met to discuss The Age to Come, explori...


International Population Conference 2017

The 2017 IUSSP International Population Conference took place in Cape Town, South Africa, 29 October- 04 November.  The IUSSP International Population Conference is a major international ev...


CAG and CIHR-IA 2017 Award | Teddy D Cosco

Congratulations to Dr Teddy D Cosco on receiving the 2017 Recognition Award for Excellence in Longitudinal Research: In Honour of Betty Havens. The recognition for excellence is awarded every 2 ...


Burcu Ozdemir | DPhil Award

Congratulations to Burcu Ozdemir on successfully defending her doctoral thesis. Burcu was awarded a DPhil in Sociology from the University of Oxford under the supervision of Professor Sarah Harper....


International Symposium on Robot Therapy with PARO

The Oxford Institute of Population Ageing is co-sponsoring along with AgeLab at MIT the 9th International Symposium on Robot Therapy with Seal Robot, PARO to be held in Japan on October 6th. Pro...


UNECE Ministerial Conference on Ageing

Dr George Leeson delivered the opening keynote speech at the UNECE Research Forum on Ageing conducted on 20 September 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal, during the UNECE Ministerial Conference on Ageing (20...


Would you want to live forever? | George Leeson Oxploring the Big Question

As part of the latest Big Question at Oxplore ‘Would you want to live forever?’, Dr George Leeson poses another big question: what do we want out of growing old? We may be&nbs...