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Dr Hiroko Umegaki-Constantini | Marie Curie Fellow
The Institute is pleased to announce that Dr. Hiroko Umegaki-Constantini will be joining the Institute’s faculty as of September 1st 2018 as a Marie Curie Fellow. This will be a joint positio...
How Today's Generations are Changing the World
By the mid-century, there will be two billion elderly people in the world and two billion young and together they will account for more than 40 percent of the world’s population. This will ha...
Journal of Population Ageing | New Issue Alert
We are pleased to announce that the Journal of Population Ageing Volume 11 Issue 2 is now available online. In this issue (5 articles): Editorial Notes by George W Leeson - The Growth, Age...
New Publication Alert
The Qualitative Stage of Building Bayesian Belief Networks in a Focus Group Setting: Decision-Making under Uncertainty among Vietnamese Rice Farmers by Založnik, M., Bonsall, M. B. and Harper, S. ...
International Ageing Award | Adela Balderas
We are pleased to announce that Dr Adela Balderas has been awarded with the International Ageing Award for the scientific work and professional dedication to seniors by the AIAA - ANGES Nation...
Irish Radio | Interview with Sarah Harper
How ageing demographic is impacting society - Professor Sarah Harper discussed changing population structures and extending working practices through entrepreneurship on newstalk.com 106 - 10...
Public engagement workshop | SCALS
The Institute’s Director, Dr. George W. Leeson, spoke at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences’ public engagement workshop on Monday 14 May at the Pitt Rivers Mu...
Ageing in Asia-Pacific
Professor Sarah Harper comments on rapid ageing in the Asia-Pacific region in an article in Acuity “A question for the ages”. “From a pure humanity point of view, it is a...
Dr Renfeng Wang | James Martin Visitor
The Institute welcomes Dr Renfeng Wang, James Martin Visitor at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing from May 2018 to June 2018. Renfeng Wang received his PhD in Educational Sciences from V...
New Publication Alert: Urban Chinese Daughters
Urban Chinese Daughters: Navigating new roles, status and filial obligation in a transitioning culture by Patricia O'Neill ABOUT THIS BOOK The lives of urban Chinese daughters have change...
New appointment | George Leeson
We are very pleased to announce that Dr George W Leeson, Director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, has been appointed as a member of Public Health England's Productive H...
New Publication Alert
Living to 100 years and beyond: Drivers and implications by George W Leeson. Description The world is ageing, both at an individual and a population level, and population ageing is truly a gl...
Commonwealth: The Future is Grey
An article in The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs discusses the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing research report 'Ageing in the Commonwealth' commis...
Professor Sir John Grimley Evans (1936-2018)
The Institute of Population Ageing is greatly saddened by the death of Professor Sir John Grimley Evans, Kt, MA, DM (MA, MD Camb), FRCP, FMedSci, FFPH. Emeritus Professor of Clinical Ge...
Robots may have role in future of elder care | George Leeson
Dr George Leeson comments as part of an article looking at the future of robotics in caring for older people in Japan in two separate articles in Mail Online and Channel News Asia (Singapore). &...