Changing the way we age - Inaugural lecture by Asghar Zaidi

30 October 2013 - Professor Asghar Zaidi gave his inaugural lecture reflecting on the sustainability of active and healthy ageing in modern societies.

The lecture, which took place at the University of Southampton, examined the scholarly challenges in identifying, recommending and promoting 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.

Professor Zaidi is a professor of International Social Policy in Social Science at the University of Southampton and is affiliated to CPC as well as the Centre for Research on Ageing (CRA). He is also a research associate of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) at the 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 the London School of Economics and Oxford University.

Read about Professor Zaidi's work with HelpAge International on the first ever global 'index' to measure the wellbeing of older people.

Posted 23/09/2013 14:27