New! PhD studentship opportunities at Queen's University Belfast (closing date 11 March 2024):

• Taking Medicines at Home: Exploring medication use as a socially embedded phenomenon
• Developing a human rights approach to medication management in residential care for older people

The ARK Ageing Programme was established in 2013, to support engagement between the age and academic sectors.

Since then, we have increased knowledge of ageing and public awareness of key policy challenges through a range of innovative and inter-disciplinary projects, including:

• services for isolated older men, 
• representation of old age in news media coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic 
• potential of age-friendly practice
• the Lively Project
• dementia in the minds of characters and readers 

We established the Northern Ireland branch of the British Society of Gerontology, and are active members of Framing Ageing, a trans-disciplinary international network of gerontologists, geriatricians and arts and humanities scholars.  Four of our PhD students graduated and now work as academics or professional researchers. 

Our current projects, publications and activities are listed throughout the ARK site.  Our earlier website, which provides information on our work from 2013 to 2022.  

For further information, please contact Gemma Carney, g.carney@qub.ac.uk