We are delighted to announce that Dr Rachel Forrester-Jones has been awarded a research grant to make a comparative study looking in to the welfare of older people in the UK, France and Italy. “How do different welfare regimes influence outcomes of loneliness and subjective well-being”.
The team which includes Dr Sandro Stanzani, Associate Professor at the University of Verona, and Precious Nwosisi, PhD student at the Tizard Centre, will seek to analyse the social networks of older people in 3 different European Countries. It is designed to indicate whether there are differences in social network structure as well as social support.
The work is a quantitative study taking data from 3 different European towns; namely Canterbury (UK), Verona (Italy) and Lille (France) with the sample group being made up of over 80 year olds.
For more information: http://www.kent.ac.uk/tizard/research/Current_recent_research.html