Debora Price

Professor of Social Gerontology The University of Manchester Officer-at-large

I am currently a Professor of Social Gerontology at The University of Manchester, where I direct MICRA, the Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing. After reading Law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge in the mid-1980s, I practised as a barrister for about 15 years. I was drawn into academia by my concern over pensioner poverty. My research now centres on finance over the life course, especially pensions and poverty, financial services for an ageing society and household money.


Contributions by Debora Price

WHERL project: Wellbeing, Health, Retirement & The Lifecourse

WHERL examines the impact of extending paid work in later life on health and wellbeing. Funded by the ESRC and MRC under the Extending Working Lives Consortia Grant Call, WHERL is a three year academic research project led by the Institute of Gerontology at King's College London in collaboration with…


Postgraduate Certificate in Research Methods for Social Science and Health at the Institute of Gerontology, King’s College London

This postgraduate programme is aimed at professionals and practitioners who need to develop their understanding and practical application of quantitative and qualitative research methods, especially those from health, policy, NGO and government sectors including researchers and those who manage and/or commission research. No prior knowledge of research methods is necessary.…


Money and Later Life

As theorists emphasize the role of consumption and identity in daily practices and present new conceptualisations of later life as situated within cultural generational fields, this chapter examines how cultural gerontology informs our understanding of money and later life.  New modes of governing ageing populations rely on cultural change, expecting…