SPARC - Strategic Promotion of Ageing Research Capacity

Canada-UK

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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.

LLHW

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Am I Normal?

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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.

More KT-EQUAL monographs

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The third KT-EQUAL monograph based on a recent workshop Robots for rehabilitation is now available

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The second KT-EQUAL monograph based on a recent workshop Research for older people and those with a disability is now available

Twelve years of EQUAL

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Workshop Full

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Falls Workshop on 18th March 2010 is full. We are still accepting registrations for the waiting list.

Monographs

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The first KT-EQUAL monograph based on a recent workshop Assistive Technologies: what is their place in the mainstream market? is now available

CARDI research breaks the ice

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Assistive Technologies

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Assistive Technologies: what is their place in the mainstream market? A summary of the KT-EQUAL workshop held in November 2009