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Hay Levels series 3 out now
New series of Hay Levels has continued this week with 8 new videos released online including Prof Sarah Harper on Ageing recorded at this year's Hay Festival. Hay Levels ...
BBC Radio Oxford | Sarah Harper
Professor Sarah Harper reviews the Sunday papers on BBC Radio Oxford with Sophie Law, 95.2 FM | Digital. 12/11/2017, 03:08:42. Listen now: Remembrance Sunday
Who wants to live forever?
Dr George Leeson commented on increasing life expectances in a recent article by Chris Menon ‘Who wants to live forever?’ published in Reader’s Digest. Recently, efforts to ext...
Anti-Ageing: Is it possible, and would we want it?
An article in the BBC Future about pharmaceutical treatments that can reverse ageing and what that means for society quotes Professor Sarah Harper. "Part of being human is that we ha...
Oxford Today | Interview with George Leeson
Oxford Today interviewed the Director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, Dr George Leeson. George Leeson questioned perceptions about what it means to be ‘old’, our real l...
Ageless Generation | Sarah Harper in The Times
In an article by broadcaster Joan Bakewell, 84, “Sexy, over 60 and still got it", Sarah Harper argues that old age should be redefined completely. Old age should refer only to that ...
Why age is just a number | Dr George Leeson
In an interview with The Elder, Dr George Leeson discusses humanity’s achievements in longevity, why we need to redefine what old age is, and the challenges in creating a sustainable society ...
Human Longevity | George Leeson
Dr George W Leeson was interviewed by Sky News Live in response to a debate sparked by a widely publicised Nature paper from 2016 suggesting that human lifespan has a limit of around 115 years, a c...
BBC Radio | George Leeson
21st June: Dr George W Leeson was interviewed by BBC Radio Newcastle on the meaning of age on a day when Daniel Day Lewis announced his retirement at age 60 and Vince Cable announced his candidacy ...
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&...