Plenary Session and Discussion with Vanessa Burholt
"Contextualising Trends in the Distribution of Older People’s Rural Support Networks over Two Decades of Social Change"
Speaker
Vanessa Burholt, Professor, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Merril Silverstein, Professor, Sociology, Syracuse University, New York, United States
Description
Professor Vanessa Burholt is Professor of Gerontology in the School of Nursing/School of Population Health, Faculty of Health and Medicine at the University of Auckland and is a Co-Director of the Centre for Co-created Ageing Research. Vanessa moved to her current position in Aotearoa New Zealand in Oct 2019 and previously, in the UK, she was the Director of the Centre for Innovative Ageing in the College of Human and Health Sciences at Swansea University; Director of the pan-Wales Centre for Ageing and Dementia Research; and founder of the Institute of Creative Ageing Industries (now Awen Institute) in Wales, UK. She has overseen the integration of transdisciplinary research in ageing and dementia, and is committed to co-production of research on ageing. She has published on dementia, rurality, social exclusion, loneliness, support networks, intergenerational relationships, ethnicity and migration. Since 2013 she has been a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (in the UK). Her research profile is here https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/vanessa-burholt
A recording will be uploaded here shortly after the session. Please ask any questions in the discussion board.
