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Creative Dementia Arts Network (CDAN)
Kate Hamblin provided a workshop on evaluation at the Creative Dementia Arts Network (CDAN) event ‘Becoming a Creative Dementia Arts Professional’. The event was the final workshop of C...
Dr Jaco Hoffman (10 June - Life Begins at 100) and Professor Sarah Harper (11 June - Who Wants to Live Forever) events at The Times Cheltenham Science Festival
Join Dr Hoffman and Professor Harper at the The Times Cheltenham Science Festival this weekend. Dr Jaco Hoffman discusses the personal, social and global impacts that come with us...
'How Population Change will Transform our World' Prof Sarah Harper presents at the Hay Festival
Sunday 5th June 2016 at 4pm. How Population Change Will Transform Our World Professor Sarah Harper looks at population trends to highlight the key issues facing us in the coming decades, incl...
Five ways to survive a three-generation household | Professor Sarah Harper speaks to BBC News Magazine and BBC Radio Scotland
Professor Sarah Harper speaks on the Kaye Adams Programme, BBC Radio Scotland about Intergenerational Households, Tuesday 31st May 2016 9.00-12.00. Five ways to survive a three-generation househ...
Dr Laurel Hixon to speak on Radio 4's Money Box Live about Social Care, today at 3pm
How can the growing cost of social care be met? Lesley Curwen and guests look at the challenges facing care providers and the repercussions for those who need it. Do we need to redesign t...
Professor Sarah Harper to speak on Radio 4's FutureProofing about Ageing, on Wednesday 27th April at 8pm | Repeated on Sunday
Should we retire the concept of 'ageing'? The first episode of the new series of FutureProofing explores the technology and demography which herald a revolution in our ideas about ageing...
Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa - New Website
The Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) re-launches website today! New Look, New Products, and New Features CARTA consider that African researchers trained in Africa a...
Dr Kate Hamblin to speak on Radio 4’s You & Yours consumer programme, on Tuesday 1st March.
The discussion is about how getting older is changing. Not all older people are having the “time of their lives” but many are enjoying old age. They take up jobs, volunteer ...
Do these countries hold the secret to a long and healthy life?| Sarah Harper on CNN
Professor Sarah Harper was quoted on a CNN article “Do these countries hold the secret to a long and healthy life?” Sarah Harper, Professor of Gerontology at the University of Oxford...
Will the Desired Family Size in sub-Saharan Africa Change?
A new article by Sarah Harper Will the Desired Family Size in sub-Saharan Africa Change? has been published on the front page of the Danish newspaper Kristeligt Dagblad, 28 November 2015...
Which jobs could a 100-year-old do? | Sarah Harper in BBC News Magazine
Professor Sarah Harper was quoted in a BBC News Magazine article “Which jobs could a 100-year-old do? “ "We are entering a new era of longevity in terms of life expectancy. But ...
Good education and price of homes causing low birth rate | Interview with Dr George Leeson
Oxford’s high house prices could be having an impact on people deciding whether to have children. Oxford’s women are also waiting until they are older to have children. The number of bi...
Professor Sarah Harper presents at the World Bank event "Golden Aging: Prospects for Healthy, Active, and Prosperous Aging in Europe and Central Asia”
Professor Sarah Harper presents and joins the discussion at the World Bank event held at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London on the 25th September 2015. Presentation a...
Can you afford to live beyond 100? | Sarah Harper at the Momentum Risk Summit
Fin24, South Africa’s premier source of business and finance news, has interviewed Sarah Harper on the occasion of the Momentum Risk Summit 2015 in Sun City. The Momentum Risk Summit, one of ...
Living longer, working Longer | Sarah Harper on BBC Breakfast Special
As part of a BBC Breakfast week of special reports, Professor Sarah Harper speaks about working later in life, changing workforce and implications of the shift from a younger to an older population...