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Cathy Bailey , PhD, is an Associate Professor in Ageing at the Department of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Her interests broadly encompass participatory approaches to working with older people to develop preventative, enabling and cost-effective services and supports. She has managed and supported international and national research projects including those focusing on: health technologies and older adults; social aspects of falls and older adults; creating dementia-friendly communities and intergenerational understanding of health and well-being. Cathy has collaborated within large multi-disciplinary and cross-sector research teams and her work is widely published.
Miriam Bernard is Professor of Social Gerontology at Keele University and a former President (201012) of the British Society of Gerontology. Her research career has been distinguished by a commitment to inter- and multi-disciplinary perspectives and much of her written work combines social scientific research with insights drawn from literature and the arts. She has long-standing interests in womens lives as they age, in intergenerational relationships and in environmental gerontology. Since 2009, Miriam has been privileged to lead the successive multi-research council-funded Ages and Stages projects. This continuing collaboration with the New Vic Theatre in Newcastle-under-Lyme has seen the establishment of the Ages and Stages Theatre Company and the now annual Live Age Festival. Miriam currently leads the Leverhulme-funded Ageing of British Gerontology project (201517) charting the evolution of the discipline through archival work and filmed interviews with senior gerontologists.
Bruce Davenport is a Research Associate in Media, Culture, Heritage in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University. Before this he worked as an educator in museums and galleries in the North East of England. Bruce has worked on a variety of projects exploring the impact of older peoples engagement with cultural heritage, either as participants in formal activities or as volunteers. He is also interested embodied approaches to exploring how people interact with each other and with museum/gallery objects to create meanings.
Adriana Espinoza , PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Chile. She teaches postgraduate qualitative methodology courses. Her methodological interests include the development of innovative research interventions from creative and art-based approaches. Her research explores transgenerational transmission of trauma, collective memory processes and psychosocial trauma in the context of socio-natural disasters and political violence.
Mei Lan Fang is a Research Associate at the STAR Institute, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada and an Academic Fellow in Communications and Community Engagement with AGE-WELL NCE (a Canadian technology and ageing network). At AGE-WELL she works with the transdisciplinary-working research team, focusing on generating and disseminating knowledge on how large networks can work more collaboratively to facilitate real-world impact. She leads a Vancouver Foundation-funded community-based research project, Place-Making with Seniors, working closely with local stakeholders to capture the place-based needs of older adults transitioning into affordable senior housing. Mei Lan is also a PhD candidate at Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, where she investigates how individual experiences and histories shape place transitions and impact on unique fluctuations in social isolation and connectedness in older adults.
Rose Gilroy is Professor of Ageing, Policy and Planning and Director of Engagement at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University, UK. Her research explores the impact of the ageing population, particularly in relation to planning and housing. Her concerns embrace the home and the lines of attachment that radiate from it into neighbourhood, city and region. Her research explores how place supports everyday life in later life. As a planner, she is interested in the transactional relationship between people and their environment.
Anna Goulding is a Research Associate at the Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, UK. Before this she was a Research Fellow at the Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing, University of Manchester. This book proposal developed out of the research project The Role of Creative Interventions in Fostering Connectivity and Resilience in Older People (AHRC Connected Communities Programme), on which she was principal investigator. Anna has worked as a co-investigator on a range of research council-funded projects exploring the processes and outcomes of engagement with art gallery programmes on older people. These include: Contemporary Visual Art and Identity Construction Wellbeing amongst Older People; and Dementia and Imagination: Connecting Communities and Developing Well-being through Socially Engaged Visual Arts Practice.