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British Academy Support for Demographic Ageing in Latin America
Dr George W Leeson, Deputy Director of the Oxford Institute of Ageing has just been awarded a British Academy Grant to carry out a scoping study of demographic ageing in Latin Americ...
Sarah Harper on BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 broadcasts an interview with prof. Sarah Harper on Grandparenting and Childcare in Europe. > Play Interview > BBC Radio 4 Full Special on Grandparenting and Childcare ...
Times article on 'Baby shortage'
Sarah Harper discusses her research report 'Changing Families as Societies age' in a Sunday Times investigation on fallen fertility: > View Times article 'The great bab...
Study Explores Possible Causes of Well-Being in Old Age
An exciting new project was announced yesterday by the University of Oxford furthering research on ageing. The research project 'Understanding Inequality in Elderly Well-Bei...
Set Pension Age Not Fair
On Monday 20 June 2011, Professor Sarah Harper gave an interview on BBC4 The Today Show about Life Expectancy and Pensions. She explained a better way to set pensions. This interv...
Research Study Reveals Modern Role of Grandfathers as Carers
A recent research study conducted in Denmark by Co-Director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing & Senior Research Fellow, Dr. George W Leeson, paints a new picture of the...
Prof. Sarah Harper on Life Expectancy and Pensions: Media Coverage
BBC News, 20th june 2011 'Scrap pension age, academic says' > Read BBC News feature 'Government defiant over women's pension age change' > Read article ...
Institute given 2011 Public Health Award
Institute academics Prof. Sarah Harper and Dr. Kate Hamblin received the RSPH Arts and Health Award 2011 for excellence in research. The theme of this year’s awards was the contribution of...
Oxford Institute of Population Ageing supports Comic Relief
A new partnership with Comic Relief has been launched at the Oxford Martin School. An initial meeting event on 9th December 2011 offered the Directors of Comic Relief the opportunity to meet with l...
Watch the entire Oxford London Lecture 2012 online
The Oxford London Lecture 2012, by Professor Sarah Harper, is now available in streamed video format on the University of Oxford Website. > WATCH VIDEO: Oxford London Lecture 2012
Britain 'risks becoming a nation of pill poppers'
Based on the delivery of the Oxford London Lecture '21st Century - the last century of youth' by Professor Sarah Harper on Tuesday 13 March 2012, The Telegraph Correspondent Stephen Ada...
Public Health: Saving Lives and Spending Less
The US healthcare system costs far more than in Japan, where emphasis is placed on lifestyle Sarah Harper The Guardian, 11 March 2012 18.30 GMT The over-consumption of food and alcoho...
Long lives and low birth rates are a problem across the West
The EU is likely to see an average increase of 23 per cent in public pension expenditure by the middle of the century. In an interview in The Independent on Tuesday 31 January 2012, Sarah Ha...
Planet Under Pressure: Taking Stock of Past and Current Demographic Trends
The Woodrow Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) has interviewed Prof Sarah Harper at London’s 2012 “Planet Under Pressure” conference on populat...
12 Days Without a Home - A Diary Among Old Homeless
12 Days Without a Home - A Diary Among Old Homeless - 12 Dage Uden Hjem – En dagbog blandt gamle hjemløse by Dr George Leeson was published in December 2011 (currently only...