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Collaboration

Collaboration

Centre for Ageing Studies, University of Indonesia and the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing

The Oxford Institute of Population Ageing is pleased to announce an exciting collaborative agreement with The Centre for Ageing Studies, University of Indonesia.

The Oxford Institute of Population Ageing at the University of Oxford was established in 1998 with funding from the National Institute on Aging, achieving Institute status in 2001. Our aim is to undertake research into the implications of population change. We are a multi-disciplinary group with demography as our main disciplinary focus.

The Centre for Ageing Studies was launched in 2010 with the aim to study, develop and create solutions for ageing issues in the areas of medicine, dentistry, nursing, psychology, socio-economic sciences, basic sciences and technology. The Centre focuses on three areas of research: medical gerontology (health, nutrition, psychiatry, etc.); social gerontology (demography, social inclusion, interngenerational transfers, etc.) and gerotechnology (housing, transportation, environment, etc.).

Background

This collaboration will serve to fulfil one of the Centre for Ageing Studies’ goals which is to strengthen multi centre and interdisciplinary research in collaboration within the University of Indonesia and within national and international institutes.

The two institutes have a long-standing relationship based on past research which has focussed on population ageing in Indonesia by Dr Philip Kreager (Since 2009 Honorary Professor, Institute of Ageing, University of Indonesia) and Professor Sarah Harper, Director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing (Member of the Advisory Board for the Centre for Ageing, University of Indonesia).

Agreement

To recognise this ongoing relationship and develop it further to benefit both institutions, a
co-operation agreement has been established which will include promotion of such activities as:

  • Academic exchanges
  • Joint research activities, such as seminars, conferences and lectures
  • Exchange of publications, academic materials and other information
  • Assistance in capacity building
  • Such other projects for mutual benefit that are agreed upon by both parties

Key to this initiative is the leadership of Professor Tri Budi Rahardjo, Centre for Ageing Studies and Professor Sarah Harper, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing. We look forward to a continuation of this fruitful relationship and an even greater expansion of activities which will mutually benefit both institutions. A formal launch of this collaboration will be celebrated in October 2011.