• Research
• Ageing and later life
• Children, young people, parenthood and families
• Death, dying and bereavement
• Living with disability and long term conditions
• Reproductive and sexual health

Ageing and Later Life

The Faculty's work on age, ageing and older people is at the forefront of gerontology in the UK and internationally. Our research is methodologically original and topical, situating the lives of older people as experientially, temporally and environmentally defined.

We have undertaken a number of innovative funded studies, including:

• Research on Age Discrimination
  
• research on the significance of chronological age and birthdays
• the management of long-term medication by older people
• examining end of life in care settings
• investigations into the meaning of place and space for late life identity
• exploration of talk about sex
• a re-examination of Peter Townsend's The Last Refuge
• The Oldest Generation, part of the Timescapes programme
• examining the role, function and design of the kitchen in the lives of people over 60
• older people and technology.

Other strands and areas of interest include:

• pioneering new research methods, including secondary use and analysis of archived data relating to ageing and the aged
• examining time and researcher habitus through reviewing their own and other researchers' data
• innovative research into understanding confused speech in people with dementia
• venturing into new areas of participatory methodology through ongoing work on community living, cultural perspectives on developments in housing and care, and end of life in supportive housing
• images of age ranging from visual appearance to textual descriptions
• the impact of environmental disasters on older people.

This research theme includes the internationally-renowned Centre for Ageing and Biographical Studies,which is also home to research students working in key areas of ageing policy.

Contributors:

Joanna Bornat (Professor Emeritus)
Bill Bytheway (Visiting Senior Research Fellow)
Joyce Cavaye
Caroline Holland
Jonathan Hughes
Rebecca Jones (Chair)
Julia Johnson (Visiting Senior Research Fellow)
Jeanne Katz
Ann Mitchell
Sheila Peace
Jill Reynolds
Josie Tetley
Verina Waights

Affiliates:

Richard Ward (Manchester)
Andrew Clark (Salford)
Jane Montague (Derby)

Research students:

Caroline Moore (The stretched generation - caring for children and older relatives in the same time frame)
Peter Scourfield (Older people's experiences of having their 'care packages' reviewed in residential care)
Rachel Scicluna (Transitions in kitchen living)