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Oxford Institute of Population Ageing Participates in the Royal College of Art's International Design Conference
Sarah Harper will be a guest speaker at the Royal College of Art on the occasion of the 'Include' International Design Conference, 18-20 April 2011. The conference, dedicated to ' Th...
Oxford Institute of Population Ageing at the Oxford Literary Festival
The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival has featured a talk by Sarah Harper, who introduced Lewis Wolpert's lecture 'You’re Looking Very Well: The Surprising Nature of Getting Old&#...
Transforming Ageing Economies
Faced with rapidly ageing populations, many countries are seeking ways to ensure that their economies continue to grow and prosper. The recent financial crisis highlighted the difficulty of pro...
OIA to present at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
The Austrian Academy of Sciences is hosting the scientific Symposium 'Ageing Societies - Mature People' on Tuesday 10 May 2011 in Vienna. This event, led by Professor Wolfgang Lutz (Prof...
Baby Boomers and the Ageing Revolution
The British Science Festival, one of Europe's largest celebrations of science, engineering and technology, with over 250 events, activities, exhibitions and trips is taking place from...
Actuarial Conference 14 & 15 July 2011
Kenneth Howse, Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing and Ana Maria Madrigal from Club Vita will participate at the upcoming Actuarial Conference hosted by the Departm...
'12 Days Without a Home' Book Launch
At a celebratory event in Copenhagen on May 27th 2011, to mark the 100th anniversary of Arbejde Adler at Christiansborg, the Danish House of Parliament, Dr George W Leeson'...
Population Footprints
Director of Oxford Institute of Population Ageing speaks at UCL and Leverhulme Trust conference on human population growth and global carrying capacity. London 25th - 26th May 2011 W...
Demography of Ageing in Developing and Developed Countries
This Thursday, 17th August, Dr George Leeson (Co-Director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing) will be addressing the topic of Demography of Ageing in Developing Countries while Oxford co...
Ageing in Latin America and the Caribbean: Changes in Social Structure and Family Roles, Images of Ageing and the Public Policy Agenda
The Third LARNA Conference 'Ageing in Latin America and the Caribbean: Changes in Social Structure and Family Roles, Images of Ageing and the Public Policy Agenda,' hosted by the ...
The Oxford Institute of Ageing has been named as a Key Participant in Future of the Cities Programme
The Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities has announced that six successful projects will each receive up to £50,000 seed money to develop interdisciplinary research into the shaping of t...
Oxford Insitute of Ageing in Collaboration with Singapore Government Plan for Successful Ageing
The collaboration between the Oxford Institute of Ageing and the Singapore Council for Third Age (C3A), an independent body that promotes active ageing, is being launched in Singapore from 14-16 Se...
Launch of European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations
Professor Sarah Harper has launched the forum for the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity Between Generations in Brussels on 14th February 2012. Organiser: Forum of the Committee ...
World Economic Forum Longevity Roundtable
The World Economic Forum Global Risks Network in collaboration with the World Demographic & Ageing Forum (WDA Forum) and Swiss Re have hosted the multi-stakeholder expert workshop 'The demo...
Default Retirement Age Must Go!
At the National Pensioners’ Parliament Convention in Blackpool yesterday (8 June 2010) Professor Sarah Harper, Director, Oxford Institute of Ageing, University of Oxford urged participan...