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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 ideas and new initiatives across all fields in science and technology, including social sciences and humanities, through pan-European networking of nationally funded rese...

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 life on the health and economic well-being of older workers in Europe. Further information can be found on the COST website http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/isch/IS1409?

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 of backgrounds will be joining us and we are very much looking forward to a lively and informative discussion.  

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 well as providing a national report for the UK. See the full report here: http://www.jp-demographic.eu/about/fast-track-proje...

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 soon.