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News from the [ Framing Ageing ] project.
The fourth [ Framing Ageing ] webinar took place on 5 March 2021 and featured Panel 6: Practise 1. Speakers included: Hilary Moss, Tara Byrne, Katie Featherstone, Ulla Kriebernegg, Robert Zwijnenberg, Anne Fuchs, and Desmond J Tobin.
A video of the webinar is now available.
The third [ Framing Ageing ] webinar took place on 22 January 2021 and featured Panel 5: Methodologies, which was divided into two parts. Speakers included: Julia Langbein, Gemma Carney, Ulla Kriebernegg, Robert Zwijnenberg, Dana Walrath, Julia Pickard, and David G. Troyansky.
A video of the webinar, including the slides used by the speakers, is now available,
A video of the two panels from our second webinar is now publicly available. Webinar 2 featured Panel 3: Narrating Gender and Ageing and Panel 4: Memory and Experience.
A video of the first two panels from our first webinar is now publicly available. Workshop 1, originally planned for 27-28 October, was reconfigured into a series of webinars. Each webinar comprises of a number of panels from the original programme. Webinar 1 featured Panel 1: Ageing Bodies and Identities and Panel 2: Gender, Subjectivity and Agency.
The organisers of Framing Ageing: Anne Fuchs (PI), Desmond O’Neill, Mary Cosgrove, Julia Langbein have compiled a comprehensive report on the recent interdisciplinary webinar – COVID-19 – Reframing Ageing – which took place on June 12 2020. Read it in full now.
Ailbhe Smyth was one of the speakers at the recent Covid-19 Webinar. With her permission we reproduce her wonderful contribution to the webinar.
What has the Covid-19 crisis revealed about ageing in contemporary culture? How have older age groups been represented during this crisis? Watch the video of our recent Webinar.
Julia Twigg is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy and Sociology at the University of Kent and a participant in [ Framing Ageing ]. In this short video she talks about Covid-19, retirement, lockdown and her experience of time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwcZqzZ_DYQ
In an article for the Irish Medical Journal (Vol 113; No.4) Professor Desmond O’Neill explains why we need to protect our longevity dividend during the Covid-19 crisis.
The COVID-19 pandemic poses extraordinary risks to the health of older adults and, upon contraction, has immediate consequences for individual well-being and, potentially, for mortality outcomes according to Professor Kieran Walsh, Director of the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology at NUI Galway.