Institute News
Francesca Ghillani | DPhil Award
Congratulations to Francesca Ghillani on successfully defending her doctoral thesis. Francesca was awarded a DPhil in Sociology from the University of Oxford under the supervision of Professor Sara...
British Society for Population Studies 2017 Conference – University of Liverpool
British Society for Population Studies 2017 Conference took place at the University of Liverpool 6-8 September. The fertility & reproductive health strand was organised by Dr Melanie Channon...
Celebrating 10 Years of the Journal of Population Ageing
We are delighted to announce that Journal of Population Ageing is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2017. The occasion also coincides with the 20th anniversary celebration since the establishment...
1st place at the Fotowettbewerb of the University of Vienna
We are thrilled to announce that Daria Belostotckaia, our James Martin Visiting Fellow and a PhD candidate in the University of Vienna, finished first in My Research in one Picture – Ph...
Cheltenham Science Festival | Sarah Harper
Professor Sarah Harper will today highlight to the Cheltenham Science Festival the challenges arising from the unprecedented changes in the global population. She will explore how economic and medi...
LARNA Network Meeting | University of Havana
The Conference “LIFE-LONG LEARNING AND ACTIVE AND PARTICIPATORY AGEING” was held on 23-26 May, 2017 in University of Havana, Cuba. The conference, under the chairmanship of Professor...
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New Appointment | Dr. Hafiz T.A. Khan
One of the Institute’s Associate Research Fellows, Dr. Hafiz T.A. Khan, is taking up a new position from 5th June 2017 as Professor of Public Health at the University of West London (UWL), UK...
Sarah Harper to lead the Royal Institution of Great Britain (Ri) as Director
The Trustees of the Royal Institution of Great Britain (Ri), which has been at the forefront of public engagement with science since 1799, have appointed Professor Sarah Harper to lead the organisa...
Rustat Conference on Ageing
Professor Sarah Harper was an invited speaker at the Rustat Conference on Ageing, held at Jesus College, Cambridge on 23 March 2017. The growing elderly population presents unique challenges, pa...
Ageing & Society | Jaco Hoffman
We are pleased to announce that Dr Jaco Hoffman, our Senior Research Fellow and the African Research Network on Ageing (AFRAN) Coordinator, has been appointed as an International Editori...
Obituary | Jan Hoem 1939-2017
It is with great sadness that I learned about the passing on February 25 of Jan Hoem, Professor Emeritus of Demometry at Stockholm University and Director Emeritus of the Max Planck Institute ...
New Old: Designing for Our Future Selves
The Institute visited the NEW OLD exhibition on 3rd February. The pop-up exhibition, taking place in the Helene and Johannes Huth Gallery of the Design Museum, explores the potential for desi...
Age Friendly Museums Network Cross-sector Conference
Dr Kate Hamblin will be presenting on "How can we use recent research exploring population change to inform our practice?" at the Age Friendly Museums Network Cross-sector Conference...
Panel discussion | Preparing for a generation of centenarians
Professor Sarah Harper joined a panel discussion ‘In Aeternum Vive: Preparing for a generation of centenarians’ held on 1 Feb 2017, at the University of Cambridge. What lifestyl...
2017 Conference "Demography, Health and Ageing” | Registration now open
Emerging Researchers Conference “Demography, Ageing and Health” 26-28 September 2017, University of Oxford Registration Open Keynote Speakers David Lindeman, UC Berkley ...