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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...
Latest Publication | Familial solidarity and orientation and life enjoyment in later life in urban areas of Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore
A new article by George Leeson "Familial solidarity and orientation and life enjoyment in later life in urban areas of Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore" has been published in Famil...
Second LARNA Workshop | La Paz, Bolivia
The 2nd LARNA workshop was held in La Paz, Bolivia on March 9th -11th 2016. This was attended by 80 delegates, mainly from Bolivia, but also with representatives from Mexico, Argentina, Peru and Pa...
Sarah Harper | Preparing for our Future Selves
Professor Sarah Harper delivered a public lecture titled “Preparing for our Future Selves: How 21st Century Demographics Will Change our Lives” at the University of Vermont on 24 March....
Brian Beach | DPhil Award
Congratulations to Brian Beach who has successfully defended his doctoral thesis “The role of employability in the labour market transitions of older workers: a cross-national study in Europe...
Wanted - Older Entrepreneurs: invitation to participate in research study
The Oxford Institute of Population Ageing ‘Older entrepreneurs: Changing work patterns’ project is examining the work and retirement aspirations of a group of self-employed older worker...
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 ...
Registration Now Open: 2016 EAST Research Network Workshop on ‘Long Term Care, Spatial Planning and Public Policy in Central and Eastern Europe’
The EAST Research Network are pleased to announce that the 2016 Workshop will be held in Budapest, Hungary on the 10th and 11th June 2016. This is a joint workshop sponsored, organised and hoste...
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Ana Maria Lopez Narbona | PhD Award
On Friday 22nd January 2016, Ana Maria Lopez Narbona, Visitor to the Institute of Population Ageing (2015), successfully presented and defended her doctoral thesis "On Falseness and Inev...
The Institute welcomes this terms visitors from around the globe: Professor Merril Silverstein (USA), Dr Younga Kim (S. Korea), Mr Yongjie Yon (Canada) and Ms Joobong Kim (Japan)
The Oxford Institute of Population Ageing are very please to welcome academic visitors from around the world. This Hilary term there are four new faces at the Institute, these are: Profess...
Exciting new collaborative agreement between The General Graduate School, CHA University, Republic of Korea and the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing.
Exciting new collaborative agreement between The General Graduate School, CHA University, Republic of Korea and the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing. The Institute are looking forward to...
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...
Launch of new Institute Journal: Population Horizons
The Oxford Institute of Population Ageing is please to announce that the launch of the new journal Population Horizons. The first Issue is now available online at De Gruyter Open. Popul...
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...
Nicky McDonald awarded the Winston Churchill Fellowship for her visit to the Institute in June
A New Zealander who will visit the Institute next June has just been awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to help fund her visit. Nicky McDonald is Senior Strategic Adviser at Nelson City Council...