Category Archives: Europe

Europe-wide initiative on impacts of extended working life.

Posted on January 13, 2016 by alb36

Professor Sarah Vickerstaff  is part of team working on a European COST action. COST is the longest-running European framework supporting trans-national cooperation among researchers, engineers and scholars across Europe. It is a unique means for them to jointly develop their own … Continue reading →

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Professor Sarah Vickerstaff vice-chairing COST action

Posted on October 15, 2015 by alb36

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

Posted on June 16, 2015 by alb36

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

Posted on February 23, 2015 by alb36

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

Posted on December 10, 2014 by extendingworkinglives-news

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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