The Annual Conference of the British Society of Gerontology was held this year September 11th-13th at Oxford, hosted by the University’s Institute of Population Ageing at Keble and Kellogg Colleges.
Almost 500 delegates from 31 different countries presented and discussed issues centred on the conference title: Global Ageing: Implications for Individuals and Societies, finding time too to enjoy the historical attractions of Oxford.
The four plenary speakers were:
- Paul Fairchild
Co-Director, Oxford Stem Cell Institute, University of Oxford
Keynote speech: 'Providing Healthcare for an Ageing Population: The promise and pitfalls of regenerative medicine'
- Helen Small
Professor of English Literature and Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Oxford
Keynote speech: 'The Long Life: Reflections'
- John Beard
Head, Ageing and Life Course Section, World Health Organization, Geneva
Keynote speech: 'From Talk to Action'
- Axel Börsch-Supan
Director, Munich Centre for the Economics of Aging, Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy
Keynote speech: 'Population Ageing is not a Tzunami, and Demography is not our Destiny: Taking advantage of our lengthening lives'
The multi-disciplinarity of these four plenary presentations was further reflected in the total of 287 presentations made at the conference.
We would like to take this opportunity to invite submissions to the Journal of Population Ageing (JPA), managed by the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing. JPA provides a forum for international, cross-disciplinary debate on population ageing. Its focus is on theoretical and empirical research and methodological innovation and development. For further information, please visit http://www.ageing.ox.ac.uk/publications/journal-population-ageing.
In addition, we would like to draw your attention to the Visitor’s Programme at the Institute. The programme offers the opportunity for both academics and those from the corporate and policy/practice world to spend a period of independent self-directed study and research, with the support of specifically assigned researchers at the institute as mentors. The main purpose of the programme is to enhance the academic work (research) of the institute as well as the visitor by mutual exchange and learning. All visitors should in the first instance contact Jaco Hoffman (jacobus.hoffman@ageing.ox.ac.uk) or Debbie Alder (visitors@ageing.ox.ac.uk) for information or go to http://www.ageing.ox.ac.uk/visiting-positions for more details and forms.
And if you attended the conference and have not yet completed the Evaluation Survey, please go to
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BSG2013_Oxford and complete the on-line survey.
The 43rd Conference will be taking place at the University of Southampton, September 2014
