Steering committee
- Professor Susan Pickard (Director) - Medical conceptualisations of the ageing body, especially frailty, gender, and its intersection with age, age theory, gender (and feminist) theory, and time and temporality.
- Dr Chao Fang (Deputy Director) - Loss, resilience, and the existential aspects of human experience in various socio-cultural contexts.
- Dr Elham Amini - Medical Sociology, Gender Studies, Ageing, Qualitative Research Methods, Sexualities, Women’s Health and Gender Studies
- Professor Ian Burn (Management School) - Economics of discrimination; discrimination against women, older workers, and the LGBT community; labour market and workplace discrimination.
- Dr Victoria Cluley (University of Nottingham) - Sociology of health and illness with a particular focus on health and illness experiences, ageing, chronic illness, and disability.
- Dr Noemi Mantovan (Management School) - Labour politics, political economy.
- Dr Anna Shadrina - The interplay between ageing and politics, focusing on themes such as authoritarianism, anti-authoritarian resistance, nationalism, and populism.
- Professor Yu Song (Director of the Xipu Institution (Think Tank), Xi'an Jiaotong - Liverpool University) - Industrial development, local governance, citizenship, gender and social development, land policies and urbanization, migration and ageing issue in China.
- Dr Susan Waigwa - Reproductive health including childbirth and menopause.
Internal members
- Dr Shibley Rahman (Honorary Visiting Professor) - Dementia, clinical and healthy psychology.
External members
- Professor Jay Banerjee (University of Leicester) – Caring for older people, medicine.
- Dr Michael Brennan (Liverpool Hope University) - Social aspects of death, dying, and bereavement, especially: mediated first-person narratives ('pathographies') of illness and dying; social death; ageing and end-of-life care.
- Dr Paula Briggs (Liverpool Women's Hospital) – Menopause, hormones, hormonal contraception, gynaecology.
- Dr Nolwenn Buhler (University of Lausanne) – Reconfigurations of public health research, health inequalities, and environment-health relations.
- Professor Matteo Cesari (University of Milan) - Geriatric medicine, frailty.
- Professor Simon Conroy (University College London) – Aged health care, geriatrics, and gerontology.
- Dr Jason Danely (Oxford Brookes University) – Cultural dimensions of ageing, caring, family relations, and mortuary and memorial ritual practices in Japan.
- Dr Jagriti Gangopadhyay (Manipal Centre for Humanities, India) - Intergenerational relationships, later-life caregiving, coping with frailty and cultural practices of ageing in India.
- Professor Paul Higgs (University College London) – Clinical sciences, sociology, anthropology, applied and developmental psychology, health services and systems, public health.
- Professor Carol Holland (University of Lancaster) – Psychology, ageing.
- Professor Andy King (University of Surrey) – Social gerontology and the sociology of ageing, gender and sexualities across the life course and methodology, particularly mixed methods, participatory methods, and qualitative methods.
- Dr Ulla Kriebernegg (Graz University) – Care home stories, space and place, vulnerability, narrative, dementia, literary gerontology, interdisciplinary age studies.
- Professor John Moraros (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University) – Community/public heath, health disparities, inequities and inequalities, social determinants of health, and minority and marginalised populations health.
- Professor Tiago Moreira (Durham University) – Ageing, technology, and society; piority setting in health care; knowledge and the organisation of health care; social studies of medicine.
- Professor Desmond O’Neill (Trinity College, Dublin) – Gerontology and the neurosciences.
- Dr Shibley Rahman (University College London) – Midwifery, clinical and health psychology.
- Professor Kenneth Rockwood (Dalhousie University, Canada) – Clinical and epidemiological aspects of frailty, dementia, and delirium; complexity of frailty; clinico-mathematical correlation.
- Dr Ritu Sadana (WHO) – Health and ageing policy.
- Dr Euan Sadler (University of Southampton) – Social science approaches and frailty, integrated care for older people living with frailty, dementia, multimorbidity, strokes.
- Dr Lynn Tang (Royal Holloway and Honorary Researcher at University of Liverpool) – mental health, inequalities, lived experience and service users’ perspectives, health and minority ethnic communities.
- Dr Louise Tomkow (University of Manchester) – Medicine.
- Professor Julia Twigg (University of Kent at Canterbury) – Social policy, cultural gerontology, age studies.
- Professor Justin Waring (University of Birmingham) - Sociology and health policy, health services management.
- Dr Jane Wilkinson (Liverpool Women's Hospital) – Menopause, sexual health.
Postgraduate researchers
- Chenfei Qian (Postgraduate researcher) - Elderly care and gerontechnology.
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