Ageing and gerontology
Learn about care provision and overcoming challenges to improve people's lives. Further your career options with our postgraduate courses, which offer the flexibility to suit your study needs.
Our courses focus on current social policy guidelines, working on issues that affect people as they age, and preparing you for a career in gerontology. You'll learn how patterns of care change over time, how support is applied between different generations, and how care is provided to people with different characteristics. Our graduates go on to careers including local, national and international policy development, geriatric medicine and nursing, and further specialist research.
Flexible study options
We offer one of only a few distance learning master's programmes for this field in the country
Links to charities and policy makers
Connect with organisations such as AgeUK, the British Society of Gerontology, and the Office for National Statistics, to prepare for your future career
Centre for Research on Ageing
We are home to a major centre for interdisciplinary research and teaching in ageing and gerontology
Ageing and gerontology courses
Our flexible study options include part-time, short courses and distance learning opportunities.
Postgraduate taught courses
MSc
Gerontology
PGCert
Gerontology
MSc
Gerontology (Distance Learning)
PGDip
Gerontology (Distance Learning)
PGCert
Gerontology (Distance Learning)
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Study spaces and facilities
Student stories
Jane Gitau has discovered a new focus in her retirement, thanks to the ageing knowledge she gained at Southampton
Our staff
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My research interests broadly combine the areas of ageing, gender and social policy.
Professor Athina VlachantoniProfessor of Gerontology & Social Policy -
My research interests span 3 areas of investigation: inequalities in later life, informal carers and employment, and the retirement prospects of future generations of elders.
Professor Maria EvandrouPROFESSOR OF GERONTOLOGY -
I am interested in research on support and care in later life, and much of my work has a focus on ethnic diversity.
Dr Rosalind WillisAssociate Professor
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