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News Archive 2010
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08 August 2010 | Category: Media News
KT-EQUAL Investigator named leading UK engineering lecturer
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30 July 2010 | Category: Other Workshops
AgeWell Conference, Birmingham - an opportunity to learn about relevant research findings and to comment on future studies. Free for people aged over 65.
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30 July 2010 | Category: Funding Opportunities
Discipline Hopping: Engineering and Physical Sciences and Economic and Social Sciences
Invitation for proposals: The engineering and physical sciences and economic and social sciences interfaces are of strategic importance to EPSRC. The Cross-Disciplinary Interfaces Programme aims to enable UK engineers and physical scientists to be world-leading in research and training at existing and emerging cross-disciplinary interfaces.
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30 July 2010 | Category: Funding Opportunities
Future Leaders in Ageing Research in Europe "FLARE 2" Fellowhips - is NOW OPEN for applications until 15th October 2010.
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01 July 2010 | Category: SPARC News
The latest issue of Computer Science for Fun (CS4FN)has a feature on SPARC Award holder Maria Wolters, as part of their special issue on Women in Computer Science.
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22 June 2010 | Category: SPARC Workshop News
Video of KT EQUAL i-Med event held on 19th May in Bath
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21 June 2010 | Category: Executive Summaries
Another KT-EQUAL workshop monograph i-med: Serious apps for mobile healthcare is now available.
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17 June 2010 | Category: Other Workshops
Last month, on 24th May 2010, at the British Science Association 2010 Science Communication Conference, Verity Smith and Alan Archer drew on their accumulated experience of organising public engagement events and growing older to give a widely appreciated presentation entitled Engaging with Older People: Making People Welcome - Presentation, Handout.
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13 June 2010 | Category: Funding Opportunities
Healthcare Partnerships - Town Meeting
Expression of interest: EPSRC is holding a Healthcare Partnerships’ Town Meeting on 22 July 2010 in London, to share information about the forthcoming Healthcare Partnerships’ call and provide an opportunity to network.
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10 June 2010 | Category: Executive Summaries
A new monograph based on the recent A Built Environment for All Ages: exploring the challenges of accessibility workshop has just been uploaded.
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09 June 2010 | Category: Research News
More Opportunities
Wellcome Trust: Health Innovation Challenge Fund - third call focuses on chronic diseases such as diabetes, asthma, arthritis, heart failure and dementia that at present can only be controlled not cured.
BUPA Foundation Awards 2010 -
08 June 2010 | Category: Media News
The Older Inventor: The scourge of capitalism turns entrepreneur by inventing the 'Seatcase'
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03 June 2010 | Category: Other Workshops
Age-friendly cities with cooperation and participation: The Asian-Pacific persective, 19th - 20th November 2010, Hong Kong
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03 June 2010 | Category: Other Workshops
Keeping well at home : Self care & whole system demonstrator conference, Headland Hotel, Newquay, Cornwall, 22nd June 2010 - 23rd June 2010 organised by the WSD Action Network
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01 June 2010 | Category: General News
The International Society for Gerontechnology held its 7th World Conference of Gerontechnology in Vancouver last week. There were plenty of representatives from the UK.
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30 May 2010 | Category: SPARC Workshop News
The science of age-suppoprtive built environments a press release and video on Philippa Clarke's reflections on the Canada UK-Study tour. More details about the tour.
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25 May 2010 | Last updated: 30 May 2010 | Category: Other Workshops
The Vida Network announces the first seminar on Active Ageing, London, 13th July 2010 and the Age Well Programme has a workshop in Anglesey, 8th July 2010
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20 May 2010 | Last updated: 30 May 2010 | Category: Funding Opportunities
Times Higher Education features LLHW call - see 20th May 2010 issue, page 20
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17 May 2010 | Last updated: 30 May 2010 | Category: Funding Opportunities
Assisted Living - Economic and Business Models and Social and Behavioural Studies. Call for Proposals
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12 May 2010 | Last updated: 18 May 2010 | Category: Funding Opportunities
The Call for Proposals to Phase 3 of the cross-research council multi-health agency Lifelong Health and Wellbeing (LLHW) initiative was released today.
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07 May 2010 | Last updated: 18 May 2010 | Category: Other Workshops
Some Forthcoming events:
1. Digital Inclusion - learning more and making a difference, Saturday 15th May 2010 at Middlesex University
2. Promoting the Collaboration of Age Research, London organised by the UK Age Research Forum, 29th September 2010, details available soon.
3. Festival of International Conferences on Caregiving, Disability, Ageing and Technology, Toronoto, 5th - 8th June 2011
4. CPD Courses on Design and Dementia, and Colour & Contrats in the Built Environment, Glasgow, 8th June 2010, more details
5. RAATE 2010 - innovations in Assistive Technoilogy, Warwick, 29th November 2010 -
01 May 2010 | Last updated: 05 May 2010 | Category: SPARC News
The extraordinary Miss Verity Smith retired at the end of April, after nine years spent organising about 100 workshops on ageing, disability and social inclusion for the EQUAL Network, SPARC, KT-EQUAL and for the University of Reading, supporting many researchers in many different ways and making a major contribution to raising the profile of ageing research in the UK!
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08 April 2010 | Last updated: 05 May 2010 | Category: SPARC News
Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, Volume 11, Issue 1 - A special issue on SPARC, featuring four SPARC projects.
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07 April 2010 | Last updated: 05 May 2010 | Category: Media News
A BBC news item on Mobility scooters .
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24 March 2010 | Last updated: 05 May 2010 | Category: General News
Smart Living event will help disabled and older people 15th June 2010
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19 March 2010 | Last updated: 05 May 2010 | Category: General News
International Conference on Ageing, Disability and Independence September 8th - 10th at the Sage, Gateshead - abstract deadline 29th March 2010.
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17 March 2010 | Last updated: 05 May 2010 | Category: General News
For five days, starting on 8th March 2010, members of the UK research and policy-influencing community met with an intedisciplinary delegation of Canadian scientists and policy leaders to discuss age-supportive built environments.
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16 March 2010 | Last updated: 05 May 2010 | Category: Funding Opportunities
Advanced notice of call for applications for Phase 3 Lifelong Health and Wellbeing. Phase 3 will invite high-quality innovative multidisciplinary applications that focus on major ageing-related challenges faced by the UK in the 21st century.
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15 March 2010 | Last updated: 05 May 2010 | Category: Media News
If you missed last week's edition (16th March 2010) of Am I Normal? it was about ageing:
We don't know how much credit we can claim, but Trevor Cox, EPSRC Senior Media Fellow and a member of KT-EQUAL did spend time last year talking to the producer encouraging her to do something on ageing drawing on suggestions from the KT-EQUAL team. -
23 February 2010 | Last updated: 05 May 2010 | Category: Executive Summaries
The third KT-EQUAL monograph based on a recent workshop Robots for rehabilitation is now available
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23 February 2010 | Last updated: 05 May 2010 | Category: Executive Summaries
The second KT-EQUAL monograph based on a recent workshop Research for older people and those with a disability is now available
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17 February 2010 | Last updated: 05 May 2010 | Category: General News
Today marks exactly twelve years since funding was agreed for the first projects to be supported by the EQUAL Initiative. This is the longest running of all the research council schemes designed to support ageing and disability research.
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15 February 2010 | Last updated: 05 May 2010 | Category: SPARC Workshop News
Falls Workshop on 18th March 2010 is full. We are still accepting registrations for the waiting list.
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20 January 2010 | Last updated: 05 May 2010 | Category: Executive Summaries
The first KT-EQUAL monograph based on a recent workshop Assistive Technologies: what is their place in the mainstream market? is now available
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19 January 2010 | Last updated: 05 May 2010 | Category: Research News
CARDI research breaks the ice As one of the coldest spells of weather in decades hit Ireland, a research team funded by the Centre for Ageing Research and Development in Ireland (CARDI) was beginning work in Belfast and Dublin.
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14 January 2010 | Last updated: 05 May 2010 | Category: SPARC Workshop News
Assistive Technologies: what is their place in the mainstream market? A summary of the KT-EQUAL workshop held in November 2009
