Women, Ageing and Media - AHRC funded Research Networks and Workshops Project 2008. This Project is Now Complete but the Website Serves as an Important Archive of the Network's activities

LATEST NEWS - RCA 2010 Sociology of Aging, Sweden 11th-17th July 2010, Call for Papers, Deadline 10th November 2009

'Love at the End of Life' research area at the 2010 Film and History Conference, Milwaukee, USA, Nov 11th-14th

The University of the Third Age (U3A) in partnership with The Lexi Cinema, London, hosts films with older women in a major role from Sept 2009.

Call for Papers - Special Edition of journal Celebrity Studies on Female Celebrity and Ageing deadline Nov 30th 2009.

Go to WATCH ONLINE to view and listen to the wide range of key academics working in this area.

The Women, Ageing and Media (WAM) research group secured Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funding in 2008 to run a series of workshops and an international conference in order to conduct a sustained investigation into proliferating print, screen and online representations of older women.

One of its innovative features is its aim to link academics from different cultural and intellectual backgrounds and to position emerging research on 'older women' in media and cultural studies alongside established research in healthcare policy, gerontology, economics, social care and sociology that dominates existing knowledge. While the AHRC project has ended, the members of the research group continue to research network along this research theme. If you would like more information on the members then go to Who's Who

Women, Ageing and Media - This Networking Project was included in the AHRC's Impact Task Force Report (2009) as a good example of impact. The report is seen by UK MPs, civil servants, senior academics and other stakeholders.

Click on LINKS for a repository of research links.

Site last updated by Joanne Garde-Hansen 19th Oct 2009