Category Archives: Seminars

Professor Sarah Vickerstaff takes part in a Lump of Labour event

On 18th October Sarah Vickerstaff attended The Colloquium on Older Workers and the Lump of Labour Fallacy 0rganised by The Age and Employment Network. Sarah acted as a discussant for the proposal that the idea of a fixed lump of labour is an accurate one. Chris … Continue reading

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GSA Conference 2015 – Florida

A team from the project will be attending the GSA Conference in Florida next week. Professor Sarah Vickerstaff, Dr Mariska van der Horst, Professor Chris Phillipson and Dr David Lain will be presenting some of the findings of the project … Continue reading

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Professor Sarah Vickerstaff vice-chairing COST action

Professor Sarah Vickerstaff is acting as vice-chair of Individuals, Societies, Cultures and Health COST Action in Edinburgh today and will be joined by colleagues Professor Wendy Loretto and Dr David Lain.  They will be considering gendered impacts of extended working … Continue reading

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Presentation to Scottish parliament

Professor Wendy Loretto was a guest speaker at the Scottish Parliament Women’s Dinner on Tuesday 23 June. The dinner was hosted by Elaine Smith MSP and the title of Wendy’s talk was Fuller Working Lives/Can women fit more in?

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EWL seminar for employers, policy makers, NGO’s and researchers

On Thursday members of the EWL team will be joining with our colleagues from Norway to hold a seminar to discuss the challenges arising for employers, workers, policy makers and NGO’s of extending working lives.  Representatives from a wide variety … Continue reading

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Professor Sarah Vickerstaff taking part in REC Scale Up Live

EWL’s Professor Sarah Vickerstaff is today attending an event at the The Recruitment & Employment Confederation entitled “REC Scale-Up Live for the Sectors: The role of recruiters in diversifying talent for business growth”.  The event is particularly aimed at the professional … Continue reading

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Europe-wide project publishes final report – chapters from EWL team members

Professor Sarah Vickerstaff and Dr David Lain from the Extending Working Lives project team have each provided chapters in the final report from the research project  “Understanding Employment Participation of Older Workers : Defining Research Needs for Evidence-based Policy” as … Continue reading

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Extending Working Lives team take part in TAEN seminar at LSE

Project lead Professor Sarah Vickerstaff will be taking part in an event at The Age and Employment Network event today at the London School of Economics.  Sarah will be joined by Professor Wendy Loretto, Dr David Lain and Dr Andrew Weyman to … Continue reading

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