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Chris Gilleard
Chris Gilleard started his career as a clinical psychologist working with older people. He has since held various academic position at Edinbugh University, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, St. George’s, University of London and University College London alongside clinical work in mental health services. His current research interests lie in the social and cultural aspects of the new ageing and the history of ideas about ageing and old age. He is the co-author, with Paul Higgs, of several books including Cultures of Ageing (2000) and Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment (2013) and with Ian Jones Paul Higgs and others, of Ageing in a Consumer Society (2008)
Division of Psychiatry
UCL
6th Floor
Maple House,
149 Tottenham Court Road,
London W1T 7NF
United Kingdom
Email: cgilleard@aol.com
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Ian Jones is Professor of Sociological Research, at the University of Cardiff and Director of the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research Data and Methods. Ian has held previous professorial chairs in sociology at St George's University Medical School and at Bangor University. He has published widely in the field of medical sociology, on chronic disease and on various aspects of ageing and later life. He is co-author with Paul Higgs of 'Medical Sociology and Old Age' (2009)and co-edited Consumption and Generational Change (2009) with Dave Eckerdt and Paul Higgs
Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods
Cardiff University
46 Park Place
Cardiff CF10 3BB
United Kingdom
Email: jonesir4@cardiff.ac.uk
Paul Higgs is Professor of the Sociology of Ageing in the Division of Psychiatry, Faculty of Brain Sciences, UCL. He is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, Member of the Academy of Social Sciences and has published widely in the fields of ageing chronic illness and social class and health. He is co-author of Cultures of Ageing (2000) Contexts of Ageing (2005) Medical Sociology and Old age (2009) and Ageing Corporeality and Embodiment (2013) and has recently co-edited a book on Social Class in Later Life with Marvin Formosa, at the University of Malta.
Division of Psychiatry
UCL
6th Floor Maple House
149 Tottenham Court Road
London W1T 7NF
United Kingdom
Email: p.higgs@ucl.ac.uk