Irish Centre for Social Gerontology

Reel Lives Film Festival - one film per day all this week.

ICSG Seminar on Monday 22nd February on "Economic Hardship among Old Women despite Policy for Equality"

Speakers: Ingemar Kåreholt & Angelika Thelin Institution of Social work at Linnaeus University, Småland, Sweden

Venue: Seminar Room G006 Institute for Lifecourse and Society Corrib Village, NUI Galway

Time: 1pm

Eamon O'Shea receives prestigious HRB Research Leaders Award

http://www.icsg.ie/content/eamon-oshea-receives-prestigious-hrb-research-leaders-award

Eamon O'Shea receives prestigious HRB Research Leaders Award | Irish Centre for Social Gerontology The Health Research Board has appointed four new Research Leaders in the areas of su***de prevention, safe prescribing, dementia care and team leadership in the health services. The awards are designed to build capacity in areas of strategic importance for health delivery in Ireland. They will ensur…

Loneliness can affect people at any stage of life. However, even in advanced old age small interventions can make a difference.

I’m 90 and was unbearably lonely – here’s how I beat it | Maud I stopped going out after my best friend died. People told me I was depressed and I couldn’t see the point in life – until I started going to tea parties

A selection of images of the presidential visit to ILAS. Thanks to Aengus McMahon for taking the photos.

If you missed the lecture, or would like to re-live the highlights, here is the video of President Michael D Higgins giving the Inaugural ILAS Distinguished Lecture earlier this week.

Inaugural ILAS Distinguished Lecture by the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins

Loneliness lectures.
Brunel University is providing video access to lectures given as part of an ESRC Seminar Series on loneliness. This includes a lecture by ICSG Director, Tom Scharf, on 'rethinking loneliness as exclusion from social relations'. Look out for the link to 'videos' in the side panel.

ESRC Seminar Series | Brunel University, London

As anticipated, an engaging and thought-provoking lecture by President Michael D. Higgins last night in the Institute for Lifecourse and Society. We hope, in due course, to post a link to the lecture for those unable to attend in person

Higgins says no widespread backing for ethical society President notes role of ‘individualism’ and ‘insatiable consumption’ in economic crisis

The Cathie Marsh Institute at the University of Manchester is celebrating 20 years of quantitative social research this week with an impressive cast of speakers. Tom Scharf, Director of ICSG, is contributing to what promises to be a lively panel on 'Social inequalities in Britain: What has changed in the last 20 years?' It is possible to follow the event on using the hashtag .

Event details | Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research | The University of Manchester We are very pleased to invite you to join us as we celebrate the first anniversary of the Cathie Marsh Institute and 20 years of quantitative social research at The University of Manchester.

ICSG Director, Tom Scharf, was invited speaker at a recent international conference on ageing and health, held in Stockholm. There is a short report on his presentation to some of Sweden's leading doctoral students in ageing here: http://www.med.lu.se/english/sweah/news_archive/successful_international_conference_and_workshop