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07/10/2009
Tessa Harding awarded the Alan Walker Prize
The annual Alan Walker prize for outstanding contribution to British Social Gerontology has been awarded to Tessa Harding MBE. The award ceremony took place during the annual BSG conference in September at the University of the West of England. Professor Alan Walker said “Tessa Harding has made a major long term contribution to the empowerment of older people and ensuring that their individual and collective voices are heard by policy makers. She is a very worthy recipient of this award and truly reflects the outstanding contribution to gerontology that it is intended to honour.”
Previously
Design for Ageing Well Launch 28th April 2009 - 03/06/09
Hi-tech clothes which merge technology with textiles to improve the quality of life for the ageing population will be created in a ground-breaking research project which was launched at the... more
Ageing in China and the UK - A Policy and Research Exchange - 23/03/09
On behalf of the ESRC, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Research Councils UK, the NDA Programme is organising an Anglo/China Workshop on Ageing Policy in London on 20th May. Leading... more
Major European Event: The Future of Ageing Research in Europe - 15/12/08
2nd February 2009, Brussels ERA-AGE in collaboration with the European Economic and Social Committee. An opportunity to: Take stock on the current state of ageing research in Europe To start the... more
Workshop on the social and economic challenges of ageing societies: China and the UK - 24/11/08
On behalf of the ESRC and RCUK (China) the NDA Programme organised a highly successful workshop in Beijing, in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The main aim of this first... more
Events
Ageing re-imagined with David Lodge and Jim Crace
03/02/2010
Novelists David Lodge and Jim Crace talk about 'Reimagining Ageing' as part of the Fiction and the Cultural Mediation of Ageing NDA Programme project. Admission is free - please contact Natalia...
7th World Gerontology Conference
27/05/2010
The World Conference is the principal multi-disciplinary meeting for professionals working in the field of gerontechnology. The Conference is held once every two to five years and this is the first...