Contributed on April 18, 2016 by Debora Price. Posted in Websites
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…
Contributed on July 29, 2015 by Debora Price. Posted in Training
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.…
Contributed on July 29, 2015 by Debora Price. Posted in Publications
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…