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Professor Sarah Vickerstaff to give keynote speech in Berlin

Extending Working Lives project lead Professor Sarah Vickerstaff will be presenting on “The impact of the Domestic Domain on Later Life Work Participation” at the “Understanding Employment Participation of Older Workers : Defining Research Needs for Evidence-based policy” event in … Continue reading

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EWL member takes up new post

Andy Weyman of Bath University and a member of the EWL team appeared as an expert witness at a the NICE Public Health Advisory Committee D ‘Workplace policies and approaches to promote and protect the health of older employees’ meeting … Continue reading

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Congratulations to Dr Sue Shepherd

New team member from the University of Kent, Sue Shepherd, had her PhD viva on Monday and passed without corrections. Huge congratulations Sue from all the EWL team.

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Professor Sarah Vickerstaff speaking at “Age Limits in the Workplace” event in Oslo

EWL’s project lead Professor Sarah Vickerstaff is attending the above event on Friday 12 December and will giving a talk on “Too Old to Work Too Young to Retire? Changing Retirement Ages in the UK”. Presentation slides to be posted … Continue reading

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The International Longevity Centre – UK publish new report setting out why it is vital for Europe’s economy to harness the power of older workers

Thought-provoking report by ILC-UK on the role of older workers in driving recovery in the Eurozone.

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Dr David Wainwright of @UniofBath provides a concise introduction to the Extending Working Lives project.

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Extending Working Lives Team Member appears on BBC

EWL’s Wendy Loretto this morning appeared on BBC radio Hereford and Worcester responding to questions about increases in the statutory pension age.  The questions were prompted by the following report in the Guardian. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/pensions/11144991/Retirement-age-to-rise-by-as-much-as-six-months-per-year.html  

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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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Interesting vacancy for Research Fellow within our project

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AJP474/research-fellow

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Extending Working Lives project

Welcome to the Extending Working Lives project page.  Watch this space for news on all the interesting work our team will be doing over the coming 2 to 3 years.

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