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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...
Burcu Ozdemir | DPhil Award
Congratulations to Burcu Ozdemir on successfully defending her doctoral thesis. Burcu was awarded a DPhil in Sociology from the University of Oxford under the supervision of Professor Sarah Harper....
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...
Commonwealth Story Telling Project
With the aim of connecting all ages across the Commonwealth, combating ageism and recording stories for generations to come, CommonAge is inviting young people living in Commonwealth countries to s...
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...
International Symposium on Robot Therapy with PARO
The Oxford Institute of Population Ageing is co-sponsoring along with AgeLab at MIT the 9th International Symposium on Robot Therapy with Seal Robot, PARO to be held in Japan on October 6th. Pro...
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 ...
UNECE Ministerial Conference on Ageing
Dr George Leeson delivered the opening keynote speech at the UNECE Research Forum on Ageing conducted on 20 September 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal, during the UNECE Ministerial Conference on Ageing (20...
Would you want to live forever? | George Leeson Oxploring the Big Question
As part of the latest Big Question at Oxplore ‘Would you want to live forever?’, Dr George Leeson poses another big question: what do we want out of growing old? We may be&nbs...
Francesca Ghillani | DPhil Award
Congratulations to Francesca Ghillani on successfully defending her doctoral thesis. Francesca was awarded a DPhil in Sociology from the University of Oxford under the supervision of Professor Sara...
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 ...
British Society for Population Studies 2017 Conference – University of Liverpool
British Society for Population Studies 2017 Conference took place at the University of Liverpool 6-8 September. The fertility & reproductive health strand was organised by Dr Melanie Channon...
Journal of Population Ageing | New Issue Alert
We are pleased to announce that the Journal of Population Ageing Volume 10 Issue 3 is now available online. In this issue (7 articles): Editorial Notes by Sarah Harper: The Reformation of ...
Population Horizons—Open Call for Papers
The journal Population Horizons—published by the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing—represents a forum for analysis and debate on the many complex and contested policy questions that...
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...