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Adela Balderas | PhD Award

Congratulations to Adela Balderas Cejudo who has successfully defended her doctoral thesis "Senior tourism: determinants, motivations and behaviour in a globalized and evolving market segment&...


NEW OLD | Designing for our Future Selves

The first in a series of pop-up exhibitions, Designing for our Future selves – NEW OLD is now open in the Helene and Johannes Huth Gallery of the Design Museum, 12 January 2017 – 19 Feb...


Professor Sir Anthony B. Atkinson, 1944-2017

The Institute is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Sir Tony Atkinson. Sir Tony Atkinson was Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, w...


The Shaw Foundation Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series

Professor Sarah Harper delivered a public lecture at The Shaw Foundation Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series 2016  hosted by the Singapore Management University, School of Economics on 29 Nov...


Dr Takanori Shibata visit

Dr Takanori Shibata (designer of the therapeutic robot Paro) visited Dr Leeson to discuss the fieldwork being carried out with Paro at the Longlands Care Home in Oxford by Agnete Stig Petersen, who...


New collaboration with the Institute for Population and Development Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong University

The Oxford Institute of Population Ageing has established a five year agreement with the Institute for Population and Development Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong University. The two institutions have...


The Future of Ageing, an ILC-UK Conference

Professor Sarah Harper is an invited speaker at the second International Longevity Centre – UK (ILC-UK) Future of Ageing conference taking place today in Westminster, London. The 2016 Futu...


The future of supported housing

Dr Kate Hamblin is speaking today at the Housing Quality Network (HQN) event - The future of supported housing. With uncertainty surrounding the future funding of supported housing, social landl...


Announcing 2017 Conference: “Demography, Ageing and Health”

In celebration of 20 years since the establishment of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, we are happy to announce the first of a series of events during the academic year 2017-2018. &nbs...


6th LARNA Conference Report

The VI Latin American Research Network on Ageing (LARNA) Congress and the II Congress ABRUNATI, held in Ponta Grossa, Brazil, October 4th – 7th 2016, were a great success. More than 500 deleg...


SIPHC 2016 | Singapore

The 2nd Singapore International Public Health Conference and 11th Singapore Public Health and Occupational Medicine Conference 2016 (SIPHC 2016) Contemrorary Challenges, Sustainable Solutions ...


G-20Y Summit 2016

Dr George W. Leeson, the Institute’s Co-Director, was invited to attend the G-20Y 2016 Summit held in St. Moritz, Switzerland September 21st-25th to speak on Responding to the challenges pose...


Ageing Research Forum | Xi'an, China

The Third China Ageing Research Forum was held in Xi'an Greenland Pico International Convention and Exhibition Center on 9-10 September 2016.  The Forum which was co-sponsored by the Cente...


2nd IAGG Africa Region conference

The 2nd Africa Region Conference of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Long-Term Care Systems for Africa: Setting Agendas, will be hosted 6-8 December in Nairobi, Kenya. The conference, convened in coo...


Call for education initiatives to empower women's fertility choices: Cecil Summit

At the Cecil Summit held in Oxford this week,  bringing  together leading figures from across the world to consider future initiatives to preserve the African lion, Professor Sarah Harper...