Date: Wednesday 30 October.
Time: The event starts at 4.30pm (with refreshments available from 5.30pm). A drinks reception will be held afterwards.
Venue: Building 58 (Murray building), lecture theatre 1067, Highfield Campus.
Subject: A major aspiration in modern societies is that people enjoy an active and healthy life in their old age, in particular in European and North American countries where life expectancy gains have been among the highest in the world. While we rejoice to live longer, and in better health and with more financial security, we also query how these aspirations can be sustained with our behavioural responses, and through public policy and institutional reforms and innovations. The challenge for scholars is therefore to identify, recommend and promote strategies that stimulate and sustain the activity, independence and health of older people and make public welfare systems sustainable – through in-depth national, sub-national and comparative research and analysis. This lecture will reflect on the usefulness of comparative research, in building evidence on policy lessons that can be learned from international comparisons of active and healthy ageing outcomes.
Speaker: Professor Asghar Zaidi is a Professor in International Social Policy in Social Sciences, University of Southampton, affiliated to the Centre for Research on Ageing (CRA) and the ESRC Centre for Population Change (CPC). He is also a research associate of Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) at London School of Economics and at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). Previously, he worked as Director of Research at the UN-Affiliated think-tank European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, in Vienna; as Senior Economist at the Social Policy Division of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Directorate of OECD, Paris; as Economic Advisor to UK’s Minister of State for Pensions, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) London; and as a researcher at London School of Economics and Oxford University.
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