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Retain and retrain - how to keep an ageing population happy at work | Sarah Harper in The Guardian
An article in The Guardian on the implications of an ageing population on the world of work cites comments made by Professor Sarah Harper at Hay festival in May 2017. People should not be called ol...
BBC Breakfast | George Leeson
Could people now in their 20’s have to work until 70's to get a pension because life spans are growing with every new generation? Dr George Leeson discussed life expectancy in Britain ...
We all want to live longer. But someone must pay
"The Oxford professor of gerontology Sarah Harper this week declared that the life expectancy of a British baby born today is an astonishing 104 years. Modern medicine is lengthening the avera...
Babies who are born today will live until 104 | Sarah Harper
An article in The Daily Mail reflects on Professor Sarah Harper’s talk delivered at the Hay Festival on 29th May. “We are gaining roughly 2.5 years of life expectancy per decade, or fif...
Don't call people 'old' until death is near | Sarah Harper in The Guardian
To mark 500 years since Martin Luther's Reformation, the Hay Festival is hosting a series of its own reformations, in which leading thinkers re-imagine the world's institutions and authorit...
We must show gold standard for science | Sarah Harper
Sarah Harper, the second woman to be appointed Director of the Royal Institution in its 218-year history, takes up her new position today. In an article in the Guardian “Royal Institution&...
BBC Radio Oxford | Sarah Harper
Professor Sarah Harper is interviewed about her new book, How Population Change Will Transform The World. Sarah also reviewed the Sunday newspapers discussing Georg...
Demographics | Economic Tectonics
Professor Sarah Harper discusses real life expectancy in Britain on the BBC World Service demographics programme, ‘Economic Tectonics’ (15.45 on the clock). In this edition of Econom...
Sarah Harper | BBC Radio Oxford
An interview with Professor Sarah Harper featured in a BBC Radio Oxford programme on 22 February. The programme examined increasing life expectancies in the UK which are set to rise for men to 8...
Comment on new Lancet study findings | Sarah Harper for CNN
Professor Sarah Harper provided expert comment for CNN on a new Lancet study “Future life expectancy in 35 industrialised countries: projections with a Bayesian model ensemble”. The ...
Brexit and retirement | Sarah Harper in The Telegraph
Professor Sarah Harper was cited in a Telegraph article ‘Brexit migration cuts could push state pension age up’. “The state pension may well have to be revised and this will co...
The Breakfast Show | Interview with George Leeson
Following on from “Hard Brexit means retiring later, Britons warned' article in The Guardian on the 16th January, where Professor Sarah Harper discussed the dramatic ageing of Britai...
Hard Brexit means retiring later | Sarah Harper in The Guardian
A hard Brexit with deep cuts to immigration would force Britons into longer working lives in order to maintain a sustainable ratio of workers and pensioners. In an article in The Guardian&nbs...
PARO on Brazilian TV
Paro, an advanced therapeutic robot, was recently shown on Brazilian TV. The clip features Dr George Leeson and fieldwork carried out with Paro at the Longlands Care Home in Oxford on the benefits ...
The New World | Sarah Harper on BBC Radio 4
The baby boom generation - which has changed Britain politically, culturally and economically - is now retiring. That means a large bulge of pensioners with big implications for the generatio...