Articles tagged with 'micra' | University of Manchester

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...

During this challenging time, the University of Manchester has continued with research, teaching and engagement, albeit with staff now working from home. MICRA is no exception here - we are continuing to support ageing research and our operational te...

A new report from social scientists linked with the Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group and the Alliance Manchester Business School recommends a range of new approaches for developing neighbourhood support for older people. The report is the re...

In an unprecedented move, scientists and clinicians across Greater Manchester have formed a rapid response research group to find ways to beat COVID-19 and save lives. ...

Experts are urging the Government to reject the formulation and implementation of policy to fight the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic based solely on the age of the population, as well as calling on both the Government and media organisations to be c...

The study ‘An analysis of mortality trends in developed countries’ by the Longevity Science Panel (LSP) reveals that, contrary to what we might have expected from mortality trends over the last few decades, more people are dying sooner across many hi...

Personal debt is at record levels in the UK, and 17% of pensioners live in relative income poverty. Now, new research from The University of Manchester has found that women aged 55 years and older are more likely to have financial problems than older...

A group of researchers based at The University of Manchester are looking for older LGBTQ+ individuals to take part in a workshop on May 9, at Manchester Central Library.  The workshop will provide a space for older LGBTQ+ individuals to come along...

Samantha Booth, PhD student at The University of Manchester is looking for individuals who would be willing to share their views on her study. Supervised by Dr Gorana Pobric, Dr Jason Taylor and Dr Laura Brown, the project aims to investigate whet...

The Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA) has confirmed six awards for its Seedcorn projects. Three of the multi/inter-disciplinary projects are fully-funded by MICRA, while the Institute has also secured external fundi...

Professor Chris Phillipson of the Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA) has collaborated on a new book on understanding insecurities in later life. Professor Phillipson, together with Amanda Grenier (University of Toron...

Research fellow with the Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing Sophie Yarker has contributed to a new report exploring the potential for microfunding for social mobility. Ambition for Ageing’s Changing a place: Microfunding, co...

The Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA) welcomes a new Director, Alistair Burns. Alistair is a Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at The University of Manchester and an Honorary Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist at the Greate...

A new report from social scientists and architects linked to the Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group (MUARG) recommends inter-generational development for the Northern Gateway project. In 2018, Manchester announced the largest and most ambitiou...