Articles tagged with 'micra' | University of Manchester

MICRA’s successful summer webinar series continued with an event on immunology and COVID19. This was chaired by Professor Rachel Watson, Co-Director of MICRA. Professor Tracy Hussell spoke on the The Coronavirus Immune Reponse and Clinical Outcome...

The Nuffield Foundation annual report highlights the reach and impact of the PAG publication A Guide to the Treatment of Pensions on Divorce, mentioning that the free guide has been downloaded over 5,000 times and received media coverage from nationa...

The article, which Tine Buffel and Samuèle Rémillard-Boilard co-authored along with colleagues from the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, is titled ‘Age Friendly Approaches and Old Age Exclusion: A Cross-City Analysi...

This is a nation-wide event for commissioners and funders. AfA, which works closely with MICRA, wants to draw attention to the importance of social connection and infrastructure in preventing the social isolation of older people from BAME communities...

The Dementia Law Clinic, part of the School of Social Sciences’ Justice Hub, is requesting feedback from carers on the impact that legal issues are having on carers of people with dementia at this current time. With COVID-19 changing the world, ca...

The event formed part of a mini-series hosted by the Business Engagement and Knowledge Exchange Team in early July. The aim of these events was to explore how and why academics work with partner organisations for collaborative research, including an ...

Tine Buffel spoke at the Flagship Symposium: Co-production research with older people. There has been growing interest in co-production research with older people over recent years. The symposium presented the work of three UK research teams, includi...

The latest of the Humanities webinars on ‘Doing Things Differently’ is now available on the Humanities research pages. This webinar looks at the impacts of COVID-19 on women, with a focus on women, work and how we need to “build back differently”....

Anyone over 18 is invited to take part in a short, anonymous, online international survey to help understand how people are coping during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim is to learn about the issues you face and how you are managing with social distan...

The COVID-19 outbreak has caused world-wide disruption in community and social interactions. People over the age of 70, deemed as having a greater risk for severe illness, are expected to follow social distancing guidance particularly stringently and...

On 19th June, MICRA hosted the second title of the MICRA webinar series. Viewed by academics, policymakers, practitioners and the general public alike, we hosted three speakers from the Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group (MUARG) and a Q&A session...

COVID-19 has forced us all to rethink how to maintain social connections in the neighbourhoods where we live and work. For the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector (VCSE), this has meant a rapid rethink in how to provide services whilst ...

Evidence shows that participating in dance can offer both physical and non-physical benefits to older people and those with neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s.  In recent times, especially in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has b...

Professor Chris Phillipson of MICRA along with MUARG Director Tine Buffel, Patty Doran, Sophie Yarker and Camilla Lewis have put together the latest Policy@Manchester blog on inequality, older people and COVID-19. They argue for a new community de...

Professor Chris Phillipson of the Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA) has authored a blog concerning Covid-19 and residential and nursing care homes. Published by the British Society of Gerontology, the piece follows ...

MICRA has historically hosted a successful seminar series, focusing on issues of ageing and attracting a varied audience of up to and over 100 attendees. However, as COVID-19 has rendered the traditional seminar format impossible, we’ve updated our o...

MICRA's Dr Tine Buffel, who directs MUARG (Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group), contributed to a series of public webinars, hosted last week by the Urban Public Health Section of the European Public Health Association (EUPHA) to mark European Pub...

An evidence-based app has been developed at The University of Manchester and released for free to help reduce the high risk of falls and physical decline in older people self-isolating during the COVID-19 Lockdown. When used, the award-winning...

The development of ageing populations has opened up major new issues for social scientists to address, yet we are still only identifying, let alone understanding, the full impact of the changes involved. Much is made of growing old as a health and we...

The conference: 'Ageing Population & Lifecourse Trajectories' aims to showcase the range of research among postgraduate and early career researchers from across disciplines taking ageing as its focus. It had been scheduled to take place on campus on ...

Debbie Price, Professor of Social Gerontology and former MICRA Director,  explained the relationship between policy analysis, gender and later life in an article for Public Sector Focus. The article states that the current pandemic “has revealed t...

A guide to help older people stay healthy at home during the COVID-19 lockdown has been published by academics at The University of Manchester. ...

Patty Doran, Chris Phillipson, Tine Buffel, Sophie Yarker and Camilla Lewis of the Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group discuss the negative impact of social distancing and suggest what needs to be done to better support those most vulnerable. ...

Haulage drivers are key workers during the pandemic, but there has been little discussion about how the crisis is affecting them, say Sheena Johnson and Lynn Holdsworth, who lead the Age, Health and Professional Drivers' (AHPD) network. Sheena Johnso...

Dr Johnson has been a key, highly valued member of the MICRA Management Board and close affiliate of the Institute for a number of years. An Occupational and Chartered Psychologist and Senior Lecturer at Alliance Manchester Business School, she has w...

Recently appointed MICRA Co-Director, Prof Tarani Chandola was part of a team led by Prof Iracema Leroi that was successful in obtaining pump-priming funds to develop a Longitudinal Study of Healthy Brain Aging in Pakistan (‘Pak-AGE’). The team (chai...

Sophie Yarker, a Research Fellow at the University, has conducted a brief literature review for Ambition for Ageing on the use of information and communication technologies to support social connections for older people. In responding to COVID-19 ...

Can society be trusted to run care homes? An age-old question but one which has come back with a vengeance with the emerging catastrophe caused by COVID-19. In the new blog, Chris Phillipson, Professor of Sociology and Gerontology at The Universit...

How does the social care system cope with the coronavirus outbreak and keep its workforce safe? And how do you discuss the sensitive topic of end-of-life care? Professor Arpana Verma and colleagues are investigating solutions to these critical questi...

Here at The University of Manchester, NHS at 70 has been recording people’s NHS stories for the first Digital Archive of NHS history since 2017. The NHS has been part of everyday life in the UK since 1948 and COVID-19 will stand as an extraordinar...