National conference addresses ageing issues
Last month saw the Centre for Research on Ageing at University of Southampton host the 43rd conference of the British Society of Gerontology.
The conference brought together academics, practitioners and policymakers in the area of ageing and include a range of cutting-edge research in the field of ageing and older people, around the themes of: Social policy in ageing societies; Economics of ageing; Ageing and the lifecourse; International perspectives; Intergenerational exchange; Health and social care; Ageing, arts and the media; New ageing populations; and Research Methods. One of the keynote speeches, delivered by James Nicoll, a Professor of Neuropathology at the University of Southampton, focused on the topic of “Immunisation for Alzheimer’s Disease", sharing results from cutting-edge research at Southampton in this area.
With 15 new Commonwealth Scholars on the MSc Gerontology (Distance Learning) programme, a Fulbright Scholar on the face-to-face MSc Gerontology programme, and a new cohort on the MSc Global Ageing and Policy (Distance Learning) programme, the Centre for Research on Ageing is entering the new academic year and the 8th year of running world-class postgraduate programmes in Gerontology.
The Director of the Centre for Research on Ageing, Professor Maria Evandrou, commented: "We are delighted to have hosted the British Society of Gerontology conference in September 2014, and to now begin the new academic year welcoming the largest number of students on our programmes, coming from countries including the UK, Israel, Turkey, Ghana, Nigeria, Malawi, Greece, Malaysia, India, Kenya and Chile."